All Entries Tagged With: "Dan Boyle"
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 14-17-3 with 31 points through 34 games. After 34 games last season, the Bolts were 19-10-5 with 43 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by twelve points. Tampa Bay has fallen to 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference. After 34 [...]
Bieksa Carrying Canucks Blueline in Western Conference Final
With an Olympic gold medal and Stanley Cup ring to his name, Dan Boyle is the consummate NHL veteran. On the opposite blueline Kevin Bieksa has had a major influence on the first two games of his first ever conference final.
Sharks/Kings Preview and CA hockey
There may be more buzz over the Giants-Dodgers baseball series going on in San Francisco right now, but that may build up an all-California playoff series between the San Jose Sharks and Los Angeles Kings even more. Game 1 at HP Pavilion in San Jose on Thursday may spearhead the animosity between the teams in [...]
Sharks tuning up for playoffs
The San Jose Sharks have righted the ship. The struggles of the team early in the season seem like a distant memory and yet because of the strength of the Western Conference this season, they haven’t pulled away from anyone like in years past. As it stands the Sharks are in the midst of an [...]
2011 NHL All-Star Game Mock Draft
One day before the 2011 All-Star break celebrations, I participated in a NHL All-Star mock draft with a fellow Montreal Canadiens Blogger, James Usypchuk, from The Power Play. You can click here: 2011 NHL All-Star rosters to see the players that will participate in this year’s All-Star game in Raleigh, NC. James had the first [...]
Joe Thornton Named Sharks Captain
Joe Thornton has finally been named the eighth captain of the San Jose Sharks. One of the leagues most prolific set-up men, Thornton takes over the captaincy of a team for the second time in his career after doing so with the Boston Bruins for two seasons. After being acquired from the Boston Bruins in [...]
Come a Long Way
The San Jose Sharks off-season is one defined by a team that could be dramatically changed by just a few minor moves. However, instead of harping on the “inevitable” defenseman acquisition that the Sharks still need, let’s focus on an area that use to be their biggest weakness. In the past the Sharks were a [...]
Sharks roster looks better or worse?
The San Jose Sharks roster looks vaguely familiar at this point in the off-season. Perhaps that’s because it’s virtually the same team that took them to the Western Conference Finals last season. That finish warranted few alterations to the roster, but are the Sharks in any better shape to improve on last season’s breakthrough in [...]
Sharks Give Jason Demers Extension
It appears the San Jose Sharks are content to solve their defensive deficiencies internally. Jason Demers signed a 2-year deal worth $2.5-million. Last season Demers gave Sharks fans a taste of the offensive potential he has from blue-line, which will be even more vital this year if the roster remains as is. Demers enjoyed a [...]
Who should be the next Sharks Captain?
Rob Blake served as San Jose Sharks captain for just one season before retiring. Now the keys to the car are available for the second straight off-season. The question is who takes over? The importance of the little “C” that’s patched to a players sweater is debatable. There’s evidence of a team’s captain being completely [...]
Sharks again look to fill glaring need for defenseman
The Chicago Blackhawks matched the San Jose Sharks offer sheet for Niklas Hjalmarsson, leaving the Sharks biggest hole still empty in the form of a top-4 defenseman. There are a billion reasons why the offer sheet made sense. It subtracted from the team that blocked the Sharks road to a Stanley Cup birth, improving their [...]
Sharks roster taking shape
The San Jose Sharks filled their goaltender vacancy by signing 30-year-old Antero Niittymaki to a 2-year deal worth $4 million. Niittymaki will get a shot at the Sharks starting job in goal and he’s had experience in that position, at least more so than either Thomas Greiss or Alex Stalock. When the Sharks were eliminated [...]
Sharks bring back Big Fishes, unfortunately Guppy comes as well
The big decision for the San Jose Sharks has been made. All summer long fans wanted to know which of the two longest-tenured Sharks would be coming back, Patrick Marleau or Evgeni Nabokov, if either. Shortly after declaring that Nabokov would not be re-signed, Sharks GM Doug Wilson retained his two biggest playoff performers from [...]
Bittersweet Symphony: The 2009-10 San Jose Sharks
All of the Bay Area has gone into rain-filled slumber as the beloved San Jose Sharks 2009-2010 season is over.There is a bittersweet taste in the mouths of Sharks fans world-wide.Though the team exorcised it’s playoff demons by advancing to the Western Conference Finals, they ultimately fell short of their goal of winning the first [...]
Sharks Last Stand
Are the San Jose Sharks ready to play do-or-die hockey for the first time this postseason? Though the coaching staff and players have never acknowledged must-win games to this point, there’s no doubt that Game 4 in Chicago is just that being down 3-0 in the series. Game 3 was a great effort. Virtually everything [...]
BATTLE STATIONS: BLACKHAWKS-SHARKS WCF ’10
When Troy Brouwer scored the first goal of the Blackhawks’ 5-1 series clincher, he put the game of hockey in perspective. With his father recovering from surgery to alleviate a blood clot in his brain, Brouwer showed courage, coming back from his absence while he stayed with his father, and getting his game in focus. “It feels great,” he said. “Sitting out those couple games gave me a little bit of perspective and thankfully the coaches stuck with me. I didn’t want to disappoint them or the team or my dad.” Now the perspective switches to the Hawks’ second consecutive WCF and a first playoff meeting ever with San Jose.
This Conference Final brings together the number one and number two Western powers, whose final standings were separated by a single point. Tough to imagine two clubs more evenly matched.
The history between the Hawks and Sharks, then, is limited to their regular season contests, though there are some interesting relationships.
Sharks move on to 2nd Round
The San Jose Sharks got virtually everything they needed to experience to go deep in the playoffs during their first round match-up with the Colorado Avalanche. Which makes moving onto the second round after a 5-2 victory in game 6 even better. A surprise invitee to the playoffs based on season-predictions, the Avalanche provided multiple [...]
Boyle wins it in OT… for wrong team.
Good teams find a way to win. The San Jose Sharks find ways to lose. They dominated most of game 3 against the Colorado Avalanche, but thanks to Craig Anderson and Dan Boyle they came out down 2-1 in the series. The winning goal in game 1 went off of Rob Blake’s skate with less [...]
Sharks acquire “The Secret Weapon”
It’s now completed, the San Jose Sharks have acquired Niclas Wallin and a fifth round pick in the 2010 draft from the Carolina Hurricanes for a second round pick in the 2010 draft. The second rounder is Buffalo’s, received by the Sharks in the trade that sent Craig Rivet to Sabres. Wallin waived his no-trade [...]
Sharks short-handed defense stands strong in 5-2 win
The San Jose Sharks will most likely be looking for a defense-man at the trade deadline if anything at all. Perhaps they made a case that they do indeed go eight deep on the back-end after a 5-2 victory over the Minnesota Wild. Defensive stalwarts Dan Boyle and Marc-Edouard Vlasic did not play in this [...]