San Jose Sharks head coach David Quinn. Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports

Will Sharks' David Quinn be around at the end of the season?

You probably haven't looked at the San Jose Sharks' odds of winning the Stanley Cup recently, for obvious reasons. As Team Teal continues their historically disastrous season, hockey fans and pundits alike are wondering what the future holds for head coach David Quinn.

The negative spotlight moved off of Quinn back in November when the Sharks ended a season-opening 11-game losing skid and began to climb their way up the standings. Fast forward to January, and San Jose is back at the bottom of the league standings and is a 1000-1 long shot at DraftKings to win a championship. And if there were odds for which coach is in the hottest seat right now, Quinn would likely have short odds.

Four NHL coaches have been relieved of their jobs so far this season, while Quinn has remained behind San Jose's bench. With how the Sharks' season has unfolded, will he still be there at the end of the season?

Take it from someone who has covered this team for over a decade: Quinn isn't the reason San Jose has 24 points through 45 games. And if anyone is frustrated with how the Sharks are playing, it's him. That may not have been more evident than in a recent 4-1 home loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

"I didn't really love our compete tonight," Quinn told the press at the time. "I thought we got outworked and out-competed too often tonight. It got better through some stretches, but they have more talent than we do. Nobody's hiding from that. But we need to be way more consistent with our compete in a game of this magnitude."

That level of talent is expected to take a hit, too, with the trade deadline on the horizon. San Jose's dismal record means that plenty of players could be dealt to contending teams while the Sharks use the latter stretch of the season to develop the young talent they have coming up the pipeline. If the Sharks lineup is going to look different by the end of the season, there's reason to believe the coaching staff could look different as well.

Sharks general manager Mike Grier said back in November that he would be "evaluating everything" if the team's struggles continued, and that could include his Boston University buddy Quinn. The head coach's contract with the Sharks may run through the 2024-25 season, but that doesn't guarantee there wouldn't be a shakeup before then.

At the moment, it isn't readily clear how much longer Quinn's tenure with the Sharks will be. We'll just have to wait and see if they can turn things around, or if a major shakeup is set to hit San Jose before the end of the season -- both on and behind the bench.

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