The following is the second question I posed to Sharks play-by-play announcer Randy Hahn and his response. To see the first question and answer, please check out the article at Shark-Infested Blogger .
On a nearly daily basis, the next question (in italics) and his answer will be posted in its entirety, other than to omit conversational and pensive words like "uh."
Todd McLellan talks frequently about the process. How much do you think the loss in the first round of 2009 helped the Sharks in 2010?
Boy, that’s an interesting question as far as did it help the Sharks this season. Though I guess from every negative you have to draw all the positives you can out of it.
It forced the Sharks to take a hard look at the kind of team they had and make it a better playoff battle-ready team, and changing the bottom half of the roster significantly.
They didn’t change the top half that much ...
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