SAN JOSE, Calif. — Ah, the Golden State. With sunshine beaming down and palm trees swaying, it’s a beautiful place. It’s a place where people go to make their dreams come true. For the Montreal Canadiens , however, it could be the place where any dreams of making the playoffs officially get buried. They’ve already dug the hole with a 1-6-0 start to the 2021-22 season — which was deepened by an embarrassing 5-1 loss to the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday — and now they’re standing on the edge of it and hoping not to be dealt a death blow by three teams who have historically killed them on home ice. On Thursday, at SAP Arena, the Canadiens will attempt to win a game for the first time since Ricky Martin last topped the charts. They haven’t won any of the 12 they’ve played against the Sharks in San Jose since squeaking out a 3-2 overtime win in 1999, and they’ve been shut out in a quarter of them and outscored 50-24 on aggregate. After that, this coming weekend’s back-to-back matinees in L...