The NHL season has not gone the Sharks way. After starting a perfect 7-0-0, San Jose has gone 1-6-3 since then and have fallen to seventh in the Western Conference. Now, things may go from bad to worse, as they will could be without one of their top forwards for 10 games. Ryane Clowe will ...
“This one sucks,” Todd McLellan said following the Sharks 6-2 defeat at the hands of the Columbus Blue Jackets, a perennial bottom feeder in the Western conference. He’s right. It sucked, and you could probably use much more flagrant words to describe it. On this night, the Sharks looked like they were the bottom feeders, ...
Martin Havlat could only stare straight ahead with his mouth open as he lay on the ice. Why? Because all he needed to do was tap the puck into a wide open net that to put his team in the lead. Instead, he celebrated a bit too early. Watch for yourself (play starts at 1:10 ...
Assume you have not watched the NHL at all this season and I asked you who you think is leading the league in scoring. You may rattle off some common household names such as Alexander Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, or Steven Stamkos. If you looked it up as of Sunday morning, you may be ...
Eric He and Ilya Davydov, two Sharks’ columnists at The Hockey Writers, are embarking on a three-part journey to discuss six burning questions regarding the San Jose Sharks. This is part I of a three-part series. Question 1: Do the Sharks Need to Sign Any Free Agents? Eric: Unless you’re the Los Angeles Kings and won ...
It can be argued that none of the parties involved in the CBA talks actually came away victorious in the new deal. Gary Bettman and the owners and Donald Fehr and the players displayed their ultimate stubbornness in waiting until the last minute to reach an agreement, and that cost them millions of dollars in ...
On November 10, 2007, Jeremy Roenick became just the third American-born player in NHL history to score 500 career goals. I was there that night at HP Pavilion, along with 17,496 fans in attendance to watch the San Jose Sharks play the Phoenix Coyotes. In a 1-1 game midway through the second period, the Sharks ...
To the pass the time during the NHL Lockout, many players are turning to other leagues and countries to play their beloved sport of hockey. Others have taken the time to relax or take part in the negotiation sessions. So let’s take a look at each player on the San Jose Sharks and see what ...
In his memoir, J.R.: My Life as the Most Outspoken, Fearless and Hard-Hitting Man in Hockey, Jeremy Roenick took yet another opportunity to blast his former teammate Patrick Marleau, who he played with for two years on the San Jose Sharks from 2007-2009. Of course, we all remember the night that Roenick called Marleau “gutless” after a ...
As the NHL lockout heads into its 55th day on Friday, hockey fans across the country will wake up feeling the same way that they have for the past 54 mornings – miserable, bored, and yearning for hockey to be played. But the lockout is affecting much more than just the average hockey fan. Businesses ...
