I agree with everything you’ve said, but I still feel like Petrecki gives us a better chance to win right now and it seems like this year is such a crucial year they might throw out a little conventional wisdom and go for it. I mean, Vlasic had a nice rookie year and he was a year younger then Nick and a lot smaller, while still playing a pretty similar style.

I’d be ok if Moore does make it, but I’ve actually been less impressed from what I’ve seen from him this year then last year. I do think this pretty much locks in Joslin as the 6th d-man unless he’s terrible over the next three games. Still think Callahan should get the first crack at being the depth d-man too.

shrug, I just like yelling at Canadian hockey fans who a) drink the koolaid of the Canadian media and b) continuously disrespect the Sharks fan base. I won’t pretend I know exactly what happened between Dany and the Senators, but their shitty management over the last two years, and having 4 separate coaches during that time after making it to the Finals would piss me off and request a trade also.

The thing is no one really knows the whole story with Heatley other then he wanted out and wanted to play for a winner. I don’t love a player who jumps ship from a team, but the team really is run by questionable management. Obviously Dany stated he was unhappy with his perceived diminished role on the team, but no one knows to what exact degree Clouston diminished his role – despite TSN’s report that it was just being dropped to 2nd pp unit time. He was an alternate captain and perhaps Clouston undermined his leadership, and if Heatley valued that aspect and knew he was going to continue to be undermined as a leader of a club he helped take to the Finals, then wanting out doesn’t seem nearly as selfish to me as some people are led to believe. It’s hard because he has such a huge contract, but maybe he really does want to win and be a leader on a team, and with a head coach who may not respect him or allow him to be the player he’d been for 3 and a half seasons.

I like TSN’s on-top-of-the-game style of sports journalism, but I feel like they tend to print their reports as the full, truthful and complete story when there’s probably more on the speculative side.

DANDENAULT IS THE KEY TO THE CUP WE NEED TO SIGN HIM RIGHT NOW.

Has Dandenault played a pre-season game at defense yet? I only remember him on at forward.

just cuz….

Of course. Its not like there was any Shark that recently retired that also wore #27. You know, a guy that scored over 500 goals and 700 assists, and was immortalized in a hockey video game. Nope, the Sharks never had that guy, and so I’m not a fan of him.

Alexander Korolyuk. Oh, what could have been… 0_o

I pretty much didn’t. Does that make me a dumbass, too?

Do you write crappy articles? No.

Hmm, but Kawakami only writes about the Sharks when basketball isn’t going on. Or when something bad happens. Purdy is a fairly regular pain. So I guess the question is, quantity or quality?

He’s a bit too much of a Sharks homer for my tastes. When I want homerism, I come to Fear the Fin (and we’re not even that bad). It’s not immediately obvious when you read his stuff, but compare the Sharks-related material to that of the other teams he writes about, and you’ll recognize the teal heart he has. Not a bad thing per se, but I prefer my non-funny-blog hockey reports to be unsentimental.

My two cents…

And I think enough people were uninformed enough and got caught up in the moment when they jumped on that bandwagon. Although there was still a guy at the game last Friday behind me yelling trade him every time Patty missed a shot. Some people are just dumbasses.

Reason #1 Sharks failed in the playoffs:

1. Patrick Marleau and Joe Thornton let in too many goals.

I’ll be watching Glee while drafting, so I may end up choosing based on who has the best singing and dancing skills. Boucher, my first round pick, Lukowich my second.

at least not so far. Dude is quality when it comes to in game announcing.