I was listening on the radio and it sounded like he finished a check at the end, and it was not dirty. I know you have to play to the final whistle, but in a regular season game up 2-1 with the other team not likely to come back, it seems a little much. I would have to see the replay to know however.

IT’S NOT LUPUS

Here’s Dan being helped off:

Vlassic and Clowe for Pronger….

Fuck December. This month needs to end.

This is really unfortunate. At least Sharks play just once in the next 8 days and hopefully that will be enough for Boyle to rest and recover. I can’t imagine this team without him.

Overall though, what a one bad effort up until the last 10 minutes of the game. I think it all started with McLellan who decided to “mix things up” and put dead Setoguchi on the first line. If players are supposed to earn their starts, what did Seto do to deserve any other role but 4th line role? Mitchell also should take a trip back to Worcester – he’s by far our worst player and contributes absolutely nothing.

Sometimes I really have a hard time understanding McLellan’s logic. When we’re winning, and guys are scoring (Vesce or Couture), Worcester shuttle is in full action and players go back and forth, even after good games. We get on a losing streak and dead players like McGinn, Joslin and McLaren keep their roster spots.. Why?

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks/2009/12/12/no-information-available-on-boyles-status-and-blake-sees-cause-for-concern/

And, as the link says, the Captain steps forward and sees the losing streak as concerning.

Has anybody noticed the Sharks record against Western Conference playoff bound teams, if the season ended today? That is a meager 3-11, if you care. The current trend is only a symptom of a larger issue. For those who bleed teal, as I do, this is rediculous! While the syle that has been implemented by our youthful coach is entertaining, during the regular season, it shall result most probably just like last year. I see this as the NHL’s equivalent to the Run and Shoot tried in the NFL (without success), or "Nellie" ball that Warrior Fans have had to stomach for years in the NBA. I think the slogan goes something like Defense wins, oh yeah thats right I remember now…Championships! Then I suppose no defense wins, what…an early exit from the playoffs. I pray the day shall come that Doug Wilson will realize his biggest mistake, hiring a barely 40 year old inexperienced NHL head coach to lead one of the leagues most talent rich teams, in their prime I might add. Doug Wilson must take responsibility and own up to this. Nobody is perfect, but the sooner he realizes his mistake, the sooner he can correct it and our chances will increase to utilize our personnel to win. I sound like a broken record on this issue, but I guess the truth hurts.

…..Even though I don’t know how to make swanky bullet-like dots.

I was at the game tonight, Rocking my teal with pride, and I had a few possible epiphanies regarding our beloved Tiburones.

- First thing I noticed was ‘The Burger Line’ split. I know, I know, I hate the moniker too. But to take Heatley away from Jumbo was absolutely regoddamndiculous. Clowe and Pavs with a finisher like Heatley?! Are you fucking kidding me? Clowe and Pavs were absolutely useless out there with heatley. And I love them both, but that was oil and water. If you’re gonna switch things up ToddyMac, throw Patty the Everyman in there to even things out.

- Greiss. Greiss is a f*cking spaz. The Coyotes should have had 4 more goals due to his overzealous need to poke-check anything within thirty feet of him. He was constantly out of position, and the ‘Yotes missed 3 wide open nets because he was floundering around the hash marks like a fish out of water. THAT BEING SAID…….. The kid has insane reflexes, a butterfly style that makes Turco look like a geriatric snail, and fantastic puck awareness. If someone taught him some patience, and how NOT to slide around on his pads as a means to not get caught out of position, I’d say let Nabby go and use the money on some quality defensive defensemen. Greiss is quite the spaz, but WE SAID THE SAME THING ABOUT A LITTLE LATVIAN WHO TURNED OUR FRANCHISE INTO A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH. He’s got potential, that’s all I’m sayin’. I’m officially drinking the Greiss Kool-Aid.

- Vlasic. Absolutley terrible. I have understood the possible upside of this kid, and I’m sure it’s possible it will come to fruition, but the kid looks like a cracked out squirrel once any type of stick is near him. He’s wasting a good lineup spot, which brings me to my next point.

- Joslin. – Rookies are prone to make rookie mistakes. And as it pertians to Joslin, it seems his only fault is that he’s overly aggressive because he doesn’t want to get sent back to Worcester. That’s a wonderful idea, but at times it leaves him out of position, with the only person to cover him being…. Vlasic.

- Blake . Trade him for JR, I’m done with this Father Time “wise sage” shit.. He’s decent, and a wonderful locker room presence. But for the money he’s getting paid, we don’t need a decent, wandering eye on the ice.

- The reffing tonight was absolutely the worst I have ever seen in person. Any Coyote would fall down, an orange armband was in the air. Listening to Coyote fans cheer as if the refs were right made me want to vomit. The penalties called on the Yotes were marginal at best, and they seemed to all be make-up calls for raping the Sharks for earlier transgressions ( Transgressions! Thanks for the new vocab word, Tiger!)/ I read the article somewhere about hwo the home team almost always has the advantage as it pertians to penalties being called, but tonight was atrocious. Whoever called that came should be fired, dragged onto the ice, shot, then ran over repeatedly by the Zamboni, Making bad calls consistently is one thing. Making them blatantly obvious is just poor form.

- Heatley worked his balls off. Even with zero help, he still managed to figure something out. Here’s to hoping Clowe gets his skates sharpened, takes some skating lessons, and realizes you should shoot AT the net, not 15 FEET IN ANY GODDAMN DIRECTION.

- The majority of the game, the Sharks looked sluggish. I don’t know if they’re tired, or what. Only after Heatley scored did anyone remotely resemble having a spring in thier step. Games are 60 minutes, kids. The intensity I saw in the last three minutes needs to be there from the opening drop. I shouldn’t have to repeat this, nor did I think I would have to. if someone doesn’t pop their head out of the mud soon, this trend is going to continue, with similar results.

- Reffing aside, the Coyotes are a dangerous team. Sure, they had help tonight, but even if they didn’t, we’d probably be looking at a Shootout…Again.

I also do not understand Mclellan’s shuffling of the lines at times. He did the same thing right off the bat in the playoffs last year. He has no patience. He is such a p*ssy he’s not willing to be confident in what got him there.

I don’t know enough about hockey to be able to criticize the scheme that he has implemented with the Sharks but I do know enough about chemistry to see that what he attempts does not work. Those two top lines……….along with Nichol are the only thing right about the Sharks this year. Shuffling them around is not the answer to this problem.

Outside of Boyle, Murray, and Huskins (wait did I just say that?) most everyone on the Sharks defense have played with zero consistency this year. I don’t know what happened to Vlasic…….I saw him at Safeway the other day with some chick……maybe she’s the problem….and Blake is just old. He’s old and from the outside he looks like the wrong pick for Captain.

So here is what I have established with the above post.

Greiss still sucks.
Blake is old.
Huskins isnt as bad as we all thought he was going to be.
I feel bad for Setoguchi for being demoted for only being hurt but that top line is awesome.
I think Pavelski, Clowe, and Malhotra should get married and be together forever.
I think Mcginn is the future of our team so he should stay up.
We should bring Stalock up now so Sexsmith can play full time in Wooster.
Mclellan should be observed closely. I feel he lacks confidence.

The end.

And it’s safe to say this news killed the good mood I was in after the Metallica show last night.

They started turning things around once they asserted themselves physically. The mentality back then was something like ’ Well, if we’re not going to win on the scoreboard, we might as well mop them all over the ice".

With what I saw yesterday, every single Shark looked scared to hit. Phoenix players took extra care of the puck, skated into corners with no fear of someone breathing down their necks.

The talk of the Sharks being the most talented team in hockey seems to have gotten into everyone’s heads, as they all look like they’re trying to do their best Wayne Gretzky impersonation. Even the ‘all finnesse’ Detroit teams had guys who would bang, and create space for the danglers. I have seen none of that from San Jose, because everything has to look ‘pretty’. If you haven’t noticed, the rate of San Jose’s ‘junk goals’ has decreased, as no one is crashing the net for rebounds. And from what I saw, the majority of the passes on scoring chances are coming from behind the net. Sure Thornton likes to set up down low, but not EVERY SINGLE PERSON has to stand back there and try to feed Torrey Mitchell. Mitchell gets tossed around like a ragdoll in front of the net, and that should be something better suited for Clowe.

I was only joking when I said this:

Something needs to jump-start this team.
I say we fire T-mac.

No not because he’s a bad coach or anything. Because I wanted to say it first!

-The dude responsible for this mess
by idunno723 on Dec 12, 2009 6:45 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

oops my bad.

You heard it here first.

That says they are glad they didn’t read this all because skimming it it looks like it a got a little nasty.

And because it was TL;DR do we have any info on Boyle?

And this is really grasping for straws, but if he is hurt and has to be put on IR, this would give us some cap relief, right? Hopefully he’s not hurt bad obviously.

YEAH IF BOYLE IS HURT MAYBE WE CAN TRADE FOR BRIAN CAMPBELL

The sharks official facebook page just reported that it “appears nothing serious happened to Dan Boyle at the end of the Phoenix game”

Update #2 from DP.

Boyle takes full responsibility for his injury and some players respond to the point made that they didn’t respond after Boyle was hurt.