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Blog Watch: Quick Hits for Your Thursday Reading
Welcome to another edition of “Quick Hits”, where I point out what hockey blogs are talking about whether it’s teams, players, coaches, news, rumors, ideas, etc. So, throughout the rest of the work day whether it’s on your lunch break, snack break, procrastinating break, or whatever else you do to get away from work, feel free to [...]
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 [...]
Illusion of Goaltending
San Jose Sharks goalie Evgeni Nabokov has a wide spectrum of believers. Some, many of whom are Sharks fans, believe he is an elite goaltender in the NHL. Others believe he is an average goalie; a product of the system who benefits from being surrounded by talented teams. So far in the postseason, Nabokov hasn’t [...]
Sharks/Hawks: Ready For Game 1
The San Jose Sharks and Chicago Blackhawks will finally meet for Game 1 of the Western Conference finals. After sitting and watching the Eastern Conference unfold as the polar opposite of their conference, these two teams must be aching for some game-action. Things to look for in Game 1: Which team flicks off the rust [...]
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.
Playoff Chokers advance to Conference Finals
The San Jose Sharks are entering uncharted waters. They’ve only been to the Western Conference Finals once in the franchises history. Try telling them that. After years of watching the team look like fish out of water, Sharks’ fans are pinching themselves trying to let the thought of this team advancing past two rounds register. [...]
Joe’s lead Sharks to 2-0 Series Lead
If Joe Pavelski and his linemates continue to play the way they are, there won’t be much need for the superstars to start leading this team. Pavelski contributed his third straight multi-goal game to give him an NHL-leading 9 in the playoffs thus far. He’s the first player to do so since Mario Lemieux back [...]
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 [...]
No Confidence
A descent down the Western Conference standings may do the San Jose Sharks some good at this point. After falling to the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 tonight, the Sharks have lost six straight. They’ve seen their Pacific Division lead disappear. The Phoenix Coyotes have overtaken them and are playing much better hockey. In fact, most of [...]
Sharks rally around missed call
Scott Nichol is usually the driving force behind the San Jose Sharks’ energy and physical play. In another game where the Sharks came out a little sluggish, it was an injury to Nichol in the third period that sparked a comeback. After falling behind by a goal twice, the Sharks were able to tie the [...]
Top Ten Goalies Likely to Move at the Deadline
Even though the Olympic Games are still ongoing and the trade freeze is well in effect, the goaltending situation around the NHL is far from clear for many teams. With a plethora of goaltenders set to become free agents on July 1st, there will be goalie movement before March 4th in the NHL. There has [...]
Nabokov sets NHL record in style
San Jose Sharks netminder Evgeni Nabokov became the first goalie to win 11 straight road games in NHL history. Nabokov made a career-high 50 saves and shut down all three shootout attempts in a game where the Sharks were completely outplayed by the Detroit Red Wings. Thanks to his play, the Sharks pulled out a [...]
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 [...]
Titan Clash didn’t disappoint, but still just game 54
You wouldn’t know it from the build-up, but the San Jose Sharks clash with the Chicago Blackhawks was just game 54 of the regular season. These teams might very well meet in the playoffs and at this point it looks like the route to the Stanley Cup for a Western Conference team is through one [...]
My 2010 All-Star rosters… if there were actually a game
Below you will find my potential all-star selections if there were actually a game this season instead of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Each is comprised of 13 forwards, seven defensemen and three goalies. Every NHL team has at least one representative at the game; therefore some players had to be left out of the [...]
Haircut Opens Schnide Buster; Sharks win 9-1
Devin Setoguchi was in a notable funk the last two weeks. So to shake things up he had Torrey Mitchell’s girlfriend shave his head completely. It was a tactic Setoguchi used in the minors to get out of a similar scoring slump. The San Jose Sharks last game against the Edmonton Oilers, Setoguchi scored twice [...]
Shorthanded Bruins Shock Thornton & Sharks
As if losing four straight wasn’t painful enough to swallow for the Bruins, late word before puck-drop revealed that David Krejci would miss tonight’s match-up with the San Jose Sharks with an undisclosed injury. The B’s number-three center turned number-one courtesy of injuries to Patrice Bergeron and Marc Savard, Krejci apparently injured himself in the [...]
Shark Experience
Game-day: Nothing like smell of game-day to get you going. The San Jose Sharks were welcoming not only myself, but the Boston Bruins to the Shark Tank. I was graced by the company of some twenty or so employees of the Trader Joe’s crew that works with my dad, many of whom were going to [...]
