Ryane Clowe Plays Puck From Bench: Cheating or Gamesmanship? Mike Colligan | April 6, 2012 Was Ryane Clowe’s move cheating or just another example of the gamesmanship that occurs on and off the ice every night in the NHL?
Ryane Clowe gives Los Angeles Kings a Stick of Karma Andrew Eide | April 6, 2012 With two minutes left in a crucial Pacific Davison match up in Los Angeles last night San Jose Sharks forward Ryane Clowe reached his stick over the boards from the…
Kings-Sharks: Horse Hockey! Walter McLaughlin | April 6, 2012 Horse hockey! — Colonel Sherman Potter, M*A*S*H In a wild, rough-and-tumble affair that featured seven power play goals, three fights, a boarding major and three roughing penalties, the San Jose…
Sharks in Danger of Swimming with the Fishes Walter McLaughlin | March 30, 2012 Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat — F. Scott Fitzgerald Desperate for points, San Jose’s dispiriting 2-0 loss to the Phoenix Coyotes was, as described by coach…
Joe Thornton, Joe Pavelski and Torrey Mitchell: San Jose’s New ‘G.I. Joes’ Walter McLaughlin | December 18, 2011 It’s a popular misconception that NHL head coaches spend the majority of their time diagramming and implementing X’s and O’s. In actuality, they are mad scientists, performing chemistry experiments in…
Nostradamus Redux: Sharks Embark on League-Best Five Game Winning Streak Walter McLaughlin | October 30, 2011 Turning the wrong direction from Husky Stadium toward our hotel last night and adding more than two miles to our walk made the phrase “Dad’s always right” ring particularly hollow…
Hiller, Macenauer and Parros’ Mustache Top Sharks, 1-0 Walter McLaughlin | October 15, 2011 Something that quacks, waddles and eats bugs for breakfast isn’t typically considered more physical than a ferocious animal that devours said creature for its breakfast. And yet, on Friday night…
‘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…
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…
The Most Interesting Series in the World: Five Thoughts on Sharks-Red Wings Game Six James Neveau | May 10, 2011 Jim Neveau, NHL Correspondent With the Vancouver Canucks’ defeat of the Nashville Predators on Monday night, the only game left in town in the NHL playoffs is the series between…
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…
Are the Sharks Ready to Erase Their Playoff Misfortunes? James Neveau | April 6, 2011 Jim Neveau, NHL Correspondent On January 13th, the San Jose Sharks were a team whose trends were all pointing in a downward direction. They were sitting with a record of…