All Entries Tagged With: "Ryane Clowe"
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sharks Best Line Shines In Game 2
For the first three quarters of the season, the Joe Thornton, Dany Heatley, and Patrick Marleau line was one of the best. However, since the Olympic break the Sharks’ best line has easily been Joe Pavelski, Ryane Clowe, and Devin Setoguchi and that showed in the first two games of their series with the Colorado [...]
You’re going to need a bigger box
If Roy Scheider thought the Shark in Jaws was big, he should count the gam of San Jose Shark players that were piled in the penalty box during Thursday’s tilt with the Vancouver Canucks. The final period was a completely different game altogether. A total of 76 penalty minutes were dolled out in the third [...]
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 Rest and Rumors
When the Olympics roll around in just about a week, the San Jose Sharks will be sending eight players to compete for their respective countries. Included in this group: the team’s three best forwards (Thornton, Heatley, Marleau), their top defense pairing (Boyle, Murray), their second-line center who plays in all situations (Pavelski), and both goaltenders(Nabokov, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Burger Line carries Sharks through two-game trip
Someone keeps heating the grill. The San Jose Sharks “Burger Line,” accounted for four of the five goals scored on the recent two-game road trip. The result was two wins over Pacific Division foes Los Angeles and Phoenix. Dany Heatley scored once in Los Angeles, and then followed that with a goal and an assist [...]
Sharks get holiday gift on empty netter; “Burger Line Reunites”
In a game that featured 42 combined hits, the San Jose Sharks drew zero penalties against the Dallas Stars for the first time in seven years. Another physical battle between the Pacific division rivals ended with a nice gift for the holidays. Holding a 3-2 lead in the final minute, the Sharks tried to avoid [...]
11 Round Shootout at the Tank, Sharks come up short again
The San Jose Sharks are going to be happy that there’s no shootouts in the playoff because they almost literally went through the lineup without beating Dallas Stars netminder Marty Turco. It came down to defenseman in the 11th round; Matt Niskanen scored, Marc-Edouard Vlasic did not. The result is a 3-2 win for the [...]