All Entries Tagged With: "Patrick Marleau"
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Sharks Outwork the Predators for a 2-1 OT Win
The Nashville Predators learned a lesson about intensity- specifically maintaining intensity throughout a hockey game- as they fell to the San Jose Sharks in overtime by a margin of 2-1. With the win, both Nashville and San Jose have 68 points. Nashville opened the game flying and tilted the ice in their favor. At the [...]
Sharks Bitten by the Predators 3-2
When the Nashville Predators play the San Jose Sharks, it is often a grinding affair. The Sharks use their size and strength to grind on the Predators and wear them down, usually on their way to a victory. The formula has worked well for the Sharks against the Predators, as they have won 9 of [...]
Ten Sleepers To Keep Your Eye On
Difference Makers, Hiding in the Shadows Here is a quick look at ten players who may wind up making the difference for their respective teams this season. RW. Nikita Filatov, Columbus Blue Jackets Although his rookie season was eventually marred by a disagreement with then-head coach Ken Hitchcock, ultimately resulting in Filatov returning to Russia [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Stevie Y Makes His Mark: Drafts Connolly With Sixth Pick
The Tampa Bay Lightning went against convention and drafted forward Brett Connolly with the sixth pick of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. GM Steve Yzerman chose the talented scorer despite highly rated defensemen Cam Fowler and Brandon Gormley still being available. Many of the “experts” assumed the Bolts would pick a defenseman if one of [...]
DAILY RUMORS: Lyle looks at the Trade Rumors Swirling about Thomas and Savard of the Bruins
We at HockeyIndependent.com want to be your resource and filter for what is going on in the NHL. We try to disseminate the noise in the blogosphere. We don’t look to to attack those sources, but to question the veracity of the rumor with cold logic, hockey smarts and knowledge. To do that… we have [...]
San Jose Sharks sign Patrick Marleau and Joe Pavelski to long term contracts
A few days after he officially told soon-to-be unrestricted free agent goaltender Evgeny Nabokov that he would not be re-signed by the Sharks, San Jose general manager Doug Wilson signed former captain Patrick Marleau to a four-year, $27.6 million deal ($6.9 million/year) and Joe Pavelski to a four-year, $16 million deal ($4 million/year). The former was [...]
Is Ilya Kovalchuk Los Angeles-bound?
With the 2010 free agent period set to begin in two weeks from today on July 1st, rumors are rampant that Ilya Kovalchuk will most surely test free agency as he will become an unrestricted free agent. Kovalchuk, who was acquired by the New Jersey Devils a week before the 2010 NHL trade deadline in [...]