San Jose Sharks are starting rookie Eetu Makiniemi, not Kaapo Kahkonen, against the Anaheim Ducks on Friday at Honda Center
Kaapo Kahkonen entered training camp this fall with the goal of becoming the Sharks’ No. 1 goaltender. He had been given job security with a new two-year contract and had done the necessary work in the offseason to take what he felt was the next logical step in his NHL career.
“It’s never nice, obviously, but that’s the coach’s decision,” Kahkonen said Thursday of being pulled. “With what he sees, he’s going to mix up lines, d-pairs, and sometimes he’s going to pull a goalie. It’s not a great feeling, but you’ve just got to keep working.”“Every player is always earning more or less trust a coach and he’s no different, he’s a goalie,” Sharks coach David Quinn said. “I’ve made it clear how I feel about him.
“It’s you doing your job and then trusting that the next guy is going do the same thing — and that other guys are going to do the same thing,” said Kahkonen, who had not talked to Quinn as of early Thursday afternoon about being pulled the night before. Asked Friday morning if part of the reason to start Makiniemi was to also give Kahkonen a chance to reset after Wednesday, Quinn said, “no, we’ve got a goalie we like a lot, too, and we like Kaapo a lot, but we lost the other night 6-5 and we want to give the kid a chance.”
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