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Hockey Independent Playoff Roundtable: Conference Quarterfinals Predictions
— With the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs set to begin in just over forty-eight hours, four members of the Hockey Independent writing staff have come together to predict each and every first round series of this year’s postseason. The contributing authors to today’s piece will be Cris Cohen (New York Rangers), Alex Muscat (Detroit Red [...]
Shark Bite: Sleepy Bruins Fall 2-1 In San Jose
On Thursday evening, the Boston Bruins were looking to build on their recent two-game home winning streak when they took their talents out west for a showdown with the San Jose Sharks at the HP Pavilion. Unfortunately, it seemed as though the B’s left their new-found momentum back in Boston when they made the 3,000 [...]
GameDay: B’s Visit San Jose In First Game Of West Coast Swing
Teams: Boston Bruins at San Jose Sharks Records: Boston 42-27-3 (87 Points) , San Jose 36-27-10 (82 Points) Location: HP Pavilion, San Jose, California Time: 10:30 P.M. (EST) TV/Radio Info: NESN (Edwards, Brickley, Funayama) – 98.5 The Sports Hub (Goucher, Beers) Last Game: Toronto Maple Leafs 0 , Bruins 8 ……. Sharks 2 , Los [...]
Sharks Slip By the Predators in a SO 2-1
The Nashville Predators continued their west coast road trip with a stop at HP Pavilion to take on the San Jose Sharks. This game wan important game- as they all are at this time of season- as the Predators could leapfrog the Detroit Red Wings into 4th place in the Western Conference with a win. [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning is 26-26-6 with 58 points through 58 games. After 58 games last season, the Bolts were 34-18-6 with 74 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by seven points. Tampa Bay is in 11th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference, six points out [...]
Thornton’s Penalty Shot, Third Period Domination Enough To Lead Bruins Past Jets
On what was a far more exciting Mid-January night than one would have expected, the Boston Bruins were able to use a strong third period effort to up-end the Winnipeg Jets 5-3 and right the ship after a Saturday matinee loss to the Vancouver Canucks just three days ago. Through forty minutes of surprisingly exciting [...]
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 [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week in Review
After 19 games, the Detroit Red Wings are currently 11-7-2 with 19 points in the Central Division and trail the Chicago Blackhawks by only four points for first place; the Blackhawks have played two more games than the Red Wings. Goaltender Jimmy Howard has been the best player on the team so far this season [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week In Review
The Red Wings were hoping that after being chased out of the Verizon Center by the Washington Capitals that things would look up. Not so much….. Game Recaps Game 7: Detroit Red Wings 1 Columbus Blue Jackets 4 It would be easy to think that the Red Wings would take out their frustration on the [...]
Sharks Take Bite Out of Red Wings 4-2
Whatever Detroit Red Wings’ head coach Mike Babcock instilled during practice after the loss to Columbus didn’t seem to work. The Red Wings logged another loss in the record book as they dropped a 4-2 decision to the San Jose Sharks (5-3-0) at the Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings (5-3-0) seemed to have played [...]
B’s Fail To Play A Full 60; Fall To Sharks 4-2 At TD Garden
Saturday night the Bruins were re-taught an an old lesson and cliche; that a team cannot succeed in the NHL, without a full 60-minute effort. In Saturday evening’s game the B’s did not play to their full potential for an entire game. It wasn’t until after 40 minutes of lack-luster, un-inspiring play, that saw [...]
Are hockey players the toughest sports athletes?
With only one game to go (game 7 tonight between the Bruins and the Lightning) before the Stanley Cup finals, the arduous road to the most difficult trophy to win is about to come to an end. The Vancouver Canucks will meet tonight’s winner in the ultimate best-of-seven series. It amazes me that the two [...]
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 and Canucks Battle to Find Salvation in Stanley
The San Jose Sharks and Vancouver Canucks have both danced with death one in these NHL playoffs and with a new lease on life in the Western Conference Final the two western juggernauts are preparing to make the most of their dangerous playoff run.
Top-20 worst bang-for-the-buck NHL forwards in 2010-11
When the 2010-11 NHL regular season ended about three weeks ago, some teams analyzed the production of some of their key players thinking why did we give so much money to the players listed below. While some productive players like Joe Thornton (21 goals, but 70 points), Henrik Sedin (19 goals, but 94 points) and [...]
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 [...]
A Dismal Night in San Jose for the Blues
Just as the St. Louis Blues were hungry to end their prolonged skid in LA, so too were the San Jose Sharks last night. Their circumstance s were a little more dire as the offensive juggernaut had dropped six in a row. With the flu making the rounds through the visiting locker room the Sharks [...]
Blues Hope To Prolong Sharks Skid
A solid 3-1 win Thursday over the LA Kings righted the ship for one day. On Saturday, the St. Louis Blues go back to work for the final game of three in four days. The San Jose Sharks are the final California opponent on the trip. Will a tangible on ice response to the Thornton/Perron [...]
Bad Blood in the Water? | Blues vs. Sharks
As the St. Louis Blues fight to succeed with the healthy bodies available, another team facing adversity comes to town. The San Jose Sharks are much like the Chicago Blackhawks. A powerful core still intact, but the cohesion just isnt the same. Will the stress cause bad blood boil over and produce a chippy affair? [...]
