Sharks' season spiraling after Reimer injury, loss to Vegas

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LAS VEGAS — “Correlation does not imply causation.”

If you’ve followed hockey analytics over the last decade or so, you’ve probably heard the maxim.

If you haven’t, what it means is that because there’s a correlation between Event A and Event B, it doesn’t necessarily mean that Event A caused Event B.

Here’s a hockey example of that — this is from seven years ago, when I used to regularly write about the Los Angeles Kings: “20-14-5 without this Mystery Player is clearly better than 19-21-5 with. So I guess the 1992-93 Kings should’ve considered scratching Wayne Gretzky in the playoffs?”

That oldie comes to mind because the San Jose Sharks’ James Reimer, starting his 13th straight contest, exited the 3-1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights with a lower-body injury after the first period.

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