San Jose Sharks Panic Button Zeke | June 4, 2016 A panic button is what you hit when you panic. You only hit it when the situation is dire and the odds are very much against you. Let’s start by…
3 Significant Stats Suggest Sweep In Stanley Cup Final Felix Sicard | June 3, 2016 2015-16 has brought hockey fans one of the more exciting Stanley Cup Final matchups in recent memory. With household names like Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Joe Thornton, and Joe Pavelski,…
Penguins Outfoxing Sharks Zeke | June 3, 2016 Well, there it was. A day ago, with much ado about Matt Nieto’s return to the lineup. I wrote that it was much ado about the wrong thing. The real…
Sid and the Kids Gian Accola | June 2, 2016 Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn. It’s not that way with Sidney Crosby and his bunch of kids, though. Especially because there could be a legitimate case made…
The San Jose Sharks, Matt Nieto and Alfred Hitchcock Zeke | June 1, 2016 The San Jose Sharks lost to a faster team in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. One of the team’s fastest players, winger Matt Nieto, did not play in…
San Jose Sharks Game 1 Lesson: Play With Fire, Get Burned Zeke | May 31, 2016 It was apparent to everyone. The Pittsburgh Penguins love to play really fast hockey. They happen to be very good at it. It is a major reason they are in…
Sharks’ Patrick Marleau Won’t Face Supplemental Discipline Andrew Forbes | May 31, 2016 After a tough Game 1 loss at the hands of the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday, the San Jose Sharks had to wait to hear if they’d be without Patrick Marleau…
Will The Sharks Be Able To Contain The Penguins Offense? Derek Neumeier | May 31, 2016 It didn’t take long for the San Jose Sharks to realize that they’re facing an entirely new type of challenge in the Stanley Cup Final. After impressively dispatching three defensive…
Penguins Must Start, Skate Fast Against Sharks Tannor Torrao | May 30, 2016 The Pittsburgh Penguins have a total (including playoffs) of 60 wins this season. The San Jose Sharks, by the same criteria, have 58. Forget it. None of it means anything…
Finally a Jumbo Stanley Cup Final Mark Shiver | May 30, 2016 Jumbo is finally getting an opportunity to play in a Stanley Cup Final. Joe Thornton, 36 has been a mainstay in the NHL since being drafted first overall in the…
Three Thoughts on the Sharks Stanley Cup Final Zeke | May 30, 2016 ‘Redemption’. I see that word a lot these days in the same sentence as ‘San Jose Sharks.’ I’ve grown to hate it. This Sharks team is this Sharks team. Not…
To the City of Pittsburgh Gian Accola | May 29, 2016 LANDQUART, Switzerland — That, dear reader, is a town of about ten thousand people which I was fortunate enough to grow up in. Located just 45 minutes from the alpine city of…