Um...Hello? Doug?

Can someone give Doug Wilson a nudge, please? Maybe he's taking a nap.

The NHL free-agency period is well underway. The laundry list of hockey press clippings is growing and growing, with the news that Player X has signed with Team Y, &c. Yet the only mention of the Sharks is in the context of those to whom they have waved goodbye (Brian Campbell and Patrick Rissmiller, as of this writing).

I know what Wilson would say to this...we're always looking at deals, we're waiting for the right deal to come along, we have a lot of confidence in the players we have, we don't want to make a deal just to make a splash...yadda yadda yadda.

I understand that sometimes the best deal to make is no deal at all, but still...as a fan, you want to have some reason to believe your team is going to be better next year, and coaching change aside, some new personnel would help. It's a bit like seeing all the other kids in the neighborhood rush home after school to play with a cool new toy that your parents didn't even buy for you. It's tough not to feel left out.

We'll see what today brings, I guess...