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Nash, Datsyuk, Gaborik to have Career Years in 2011-2012?

Andrew Johnson | September 28, 2011

With the start of the NHL regular season approaching rapidly, much speculation has been doled out regarding what’s to come in the year ahead. While predicting the future is impossible,…

Categories Fantasy, Previews and Predictions, Uncategorized

What To Expect From Minnesota This Season

David OConnor | September 26, 2011

Every season is always different for every team. Different predictions are made, different expectations are set, different things always happen. It all starts in training camp, and the Minnesota Wild…

Categories Minnesota Wild, Uncategorized

2011/2012 NHL Season Predictions: Eastern Conference

Brandon Schlager | September 10, 2011

Eastern Conference // Western Conference With most teams kicking off training camp this week, preseason hockey right around the corner and puck drop slightly less than a month away, you…

Categories Uncategorized

30 Questions – Western Conference

Tim Kolupanowich | August 24, 2011

Here are roster questions for the Western Conference. A lot of teams are expecting a key player to have a bounce-back, or breakout season in order to keep up in…

Categories Columbus Blue Jackets, Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota Wild

Battle Royale: the San Jose Sharks and Los Angeles Kings Jockey for Pacific Supremacy

Walter McLaughlin | August 21, 2011

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” — Thomas Jefferson. One team has ruled the roost four consecutive years, missing a fifth (despite…

Categories Los Angeles Kings, San Jose Sharks

‘Joey the Kid’ Needs Six Shooter for Sharks to Tame the Wild, Wild West

Walter McLaughlin | August 9, 2011

Back when the western portion of eastern Canada was young, there was a big kid straight out of the frozen, blustery plains of Ontario.  At 6’4″ and well over 200…

Categories Player Profiles, San Jose Sharks

Bombs Away: San Jose Sharks Offseason Review

Walter McLaughlin | July 24, 2011

Mobile, offensive, top-pairing defenseman with size, grit and a bombs-away mentality from the blue line?  Check.  Speedy, playmaking two-way winger with the capability of netting 25+ goals and stepping up…

Categories Free Agents, NHL Prospects, San Jose Sharks

2011 Draft Day Trade: The Sharks That Jumped

Walter McLaughlin | June 29, 2011

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened — John…

Categories Player Profiles, San Jose Sharks, Trades Contracts and Transactions, Uncategorized

San Jose Sharks’ Left and Right Wing Leanings in the 2011 Draft

Walter McLaughlin | June 19, 2011

Say what? The San Jose Sharks, a team that has advanced to the Western Conference Finals two years in a row and armed to their razor-sharp teeth with elite snipers…

Categories NHL Prospects, Player Profiles, San Jose Sharks

Can A Team Win With Dany Heatley?

Tim Kolupanowich | May 24, 2011

Joe Thornton has taken a lot of heat from playoff failures in the past, both in San Jose and Boston. His inability to score (he failed to record a single point…

Categories Uncategorized

What Each Team Needs In Order To Advance

Tim Kolupanowich | May 16, 2011

Just because  a team makes it all the way to the final four doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. The Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning, San Jose Sharks and…

Categories Uncategorized

Round One: Royal Jelly

Walter McLaughlin | April 12, 2011

Before you say anything, there really is such a thing. From the Merriam-Webster dictionary:  a highly nutritious secretion of the pharyngeal glands of the honeybee that is fed to the…

Categories Los Angeles Kings, San Jose Sharks
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