All Entries Tagged With: "Scott Nichol"
Top 10 Most Hated Active NHL Players
Like every year, let’s have a look at the most hated active NHL players this season. These players are often well liked by their team-mates, but despised by the opposing teams. They are pesky pests that go under your skin every time you face them and often get suspended for their dirty gestures on the [...]
Top-10 Undersized Players in the NHL
Often deemed too small by NHL scouts, undersized, but skilled, players often have a harder time convincing NHL executives to give them a chance at the pro level than let’s say a 6’4”, 220 pounds forward with lesser skills. The rigor of the 82-game NHL calendar take its toll on every player, and even more [...]
Top 10 Most Hated Active NHL Players
This list about the 2011 most hated NHL players is only about active players again, that’s why some notable retired guys like Claude Lemieux, Darcy Tucker, Ulf Samuelsson, Jeremy Roenick, Dale Hunter, Marty McSorley, Darius Kasparaitis and Chris Simon are not included in the list. Please feel free to add your personal list of players [...]
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 [...]
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 “Feel Good” About Themselves
Fans of the Colorado Avalanche can feel good about how this team is performing so far in the playoffs. The players obviously feel pretty good about how they have played so far. Despite the game two OT loss, there was little talk of one that got away, blah-blah-blah. They know the deal; they weren’t even [...]
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 [...]
Sharks clinch Pacific Division
The San Jose Sharks have won the Pacific Division for the third straight season. They won’t match last season’s President’s Trophy, or the point total. However, there are encourages signs about this years team entering the playoffs. The Pacific Division was a highly competitive division from top-to-bottom. The two teams expected to compete with the [...]
Sharks erupt in third period for 8-5 win
The starts to games for the San Jose Sharks haven’t been all that great recently. However, with their latest comeback win, the Sharks became the first team in NHL history to win three consecutive games in regulation after trailing going into the third period. Today’s version was especially sweet; after a horrid first two periods, [...]
Lapierre Suspended Four Games
The National Hockey League has suspended Montreal Canadiens forward Maxime Lapierre for four games for hitting San Jose forward Scott Nichol early in the third period during last night’s game. While no penalty was assessed on the hit itself in-game, the hit was late and unnecessary, as Nichol had already followed through with the hit. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sharks’ streak stumbles in Kings’ moat
Riding an eight-game win streak, the Sharks couldn’t have felt more confident facing the Los Angeles Kings at HP Pavilion for another Pacific Division showdown. Apparently the Kings didn’t feel like obliging because the Kings throttled the Sharks 6-2 behind Quick’s 45 saves and Drew Doughty’s four assists. Though they more than doubled the Kings [...]
Sharks Forward Depth: Best in franchise history?
The San Jose Sharks have become notorious regular season studs. Then comes the even more well-known playoff duds label. Each year the excuse is different, but one trend in particular stayed the same. The team never had secondary scoring, nor did it’s third and fourth lines have much of an identity. Last season the Sharks [...]