Kurtenbach: You should be excited about the Sharks. Just don’t expect them to win much this season

If you look at the NHL standings six months from now, you’ll be forgiven for thinking that things didn’t improve much for the Sharks in the 2024-25 season.

After all, this is still, in all likelihood, the worst team in hockey. That long, unbecoming, playoff drought will reach six seasons come April. Another high draft pick beckons in the summer.

And yet, there is real, justified excitement around this squad.

Such are the perks of progress.

This team is going somewhere ...