Oh goody, there’s another game in like what? 16 hours ?!?!?
Oh joy!

That is all.

CAN’T WAIT

#thingsmoreexcitingthantheSharksBluesgame

Why PNK stopped.

If the Sharks play the same way like they did against the blues, then this game might be darn well UGLY!

Yawwwwwwwn. Bummer.
December Sharkstistics updated with all of the specifics.

Wake up, Sharks! Time to lose the DoppleSharks for good!

The one positive from the game is that the Sharks managed to improve their penalty kill from the 30th-ranked 73.9% to 28th-ranked 74.4%.

Take that, Toronto and Columbus! Next to pass: Chicago.

Four years ago, when DW signed Tmac, he was advertized as a special teams guru.. LMAO…. They also mentioned that he’s style was all about puck possession. But, all I see is dump and chase by all four lines… what a joke!!!

Thus far, McLellan has had a relatively easy job, considering this team’s talent level. However, this year, he’s being challenged, party due to DW destruction of the team, and he has no answers. I’d take Randy Carlyle…

However, I may be going to a colleague’s house to watch the game tonight, with a couple diehard Hawks fans. Really hoping the Sharks get it together for this game.

Last nights game wasn’t fun to watch…but, it’s a new day!

Apparently, Matt Irwin has been re-called, wonder if Burns shot block last night got worse after the game…or maybe Colin White shouldn’t be playing.

Would appreciate a good effort from the Sharks against a very good Chicago team.

I’m really glad we play in the Pacific this year.

Murray to IR, Niitty off of IR, Irwin officially called up. (From Kevin Kurz)

Its about time for D.Murray, he was playing with a broken hand.

Both Niitty and Sheppard are still on IR.

The Sharks played a home game against Chicago, coming in @ 14-10-4. They come into this game 15-10-1. They won that game on a Clowe OT goal, his second of the game, 2-1. I feel remarkably similar about this team as I did back then. On that completely subjective and unquantifiable analysis, it does not appear we have made a lot (or any) of progress.

I am starting to lean toward the “poor leadership” camp when looking at what is happening with the Sharks. Last night players just seemed to have no idea where they were supposed to be on the PP and only a vague idea 5on5. These are (mostly) seasoned professionals. There is something missing beyond just skill, effort…heart. Somebody has to beat the drum and somebody else has to make sure everyone is rowing to the beat. Its just not happening. Is it on-ice leadership? I am no longer certain it is not. Is there a management issue? I think the kind of play we are seeing is common enough that something in that department has to change.

Just my 2 cents.

Lets hope for better tonight.

Go Sharks.

Just watched last night’s game, and yes, it certainly was boring…

Here’s to a better showing tonight.

I know the Chicago Blackhawks are ready and waiting, primed to do its educating about the anatomy of a dying Shark suffering the symptoms of that terminal disease ‘hapless-inabilititus’, but let me just remind some of you of my ‘concerns’ over this worsening condition, which were at the time, shoved aside as heavily exaggerated points of view.

I claimed the Sharks lack the offensive-punch to cut their through the ranks for the remainder of the season, with Havlat being the inadequate replacement for Heatley and the failed transitioned partner of the reliable Burns. I said the Blues would give them all they could handle mainly because they are really no better or worse than this unspectacular St. Louis team to begin with. SUMMARY of last night’s events: Zero goals, zilch from Havlat (again, shocker!) and nothing from the rest of this deflating talent pool. Meanwhile, the Wild win again, get another helper from Heatley (yep), and dispatch their opponents quite easily with a 4 – 1 victory. Sure the goalie for the Wild is indisputably the major reason for their success thus far, but he ain’t assisting on Heatley’s and Setoguchi’s contributions – no, my friends, the talent alone of those two players are responsible for that, and we are responsible for sending away our formidable ability to implement four capable and scary scoring lines, in return essentially getting a much improved defense that must find a way to win for this San Jose team that will provide zero goals or less on many nights. Yeah, that’s a recipe for success.
I claimed that the Sharks are no longer a contender because they have to fight for every point like it’s the playoffs already, with no easy games, rest never comes, and the inability to dominate a few games (Please, the Dallas victory was a statistical anomaly, I’m sure the Stars are embarrassed as hell right now and the next time they play the Sharks, it will not happen again – it simply cannot) will not bod will, IF the Sharks make the playoffs. My example of a real contender taking care of business illustrated itself last night, as the Wings trampled the Jets 7 – 1. Detroit, with skill and the identity to go with it, saw two points that was already theirs and showed what the definition of a ‘lesser opponent’ really means. That is the sign of a team going places, that will not have to wonder if they can pull themselves out of the occasional slump and not let a slump become a terribly long occasion.
Ultimately I say the Sharks will be lucky to make the playoffs this year with they way they play the game of hockey, and anyone who watched the games after and before the Dallas fluke-off and tells that this team is in no danger of missing the big dance, and in fact, can still achieve that championship that ever eludes us, is blinded by such fanaticism, it borders on creating a personal hell that consumes them annually. At any rate, it hurts, it sucks, etc, but this is the team we now have – a team of falling erstwhile stars. It will take a miracle for them to accomplish the one thing that this team was so often seemingly capable of doing, winning it all. A shiny president’s trophy, a laundry basket full of division title banners, beating the hated Red Wings – these are the relics of a time when anything seemed possible. A time that is slipping away right before our eyes, this is the year where the Sharks lost their last chance of, and let’s face it, too many chances wasted.
Chicago will not shed any tears for this team that will glide idly up and down the ice tonight, and we’ll see the if the training staff can manage to scrape the bits of Shark off the ice in time for yet another post-game autopsy.
Just for fun, let me see if I can predict the resulting debacle (I need something to watch for since my beloved Sharks are almost extinct)… Blackhawks 5 Sharks 1. And no, Havlat won’t be the shut-out ruining ‘hero’.

Irwin leads the WorSharks in goals and points, and leads all AHL defensemen in power play goals. Petrecki, who isn’t expected to add much in the way of offense, has finally begun to show why he was a first round draft pick as he has matured into a very good stay at home defenseman and should make a strong run at the San Jose roster next season.

shame on you, man. The NBA are not athletes, they’re multimillionaire sneaker company contract television drama toys. The WNBA is for the most part composed of fully educated women who even go on to be authors and other things after their careers, and oh, they play for a pittance (around 50k/year) in the united states and have to leave the us to play for international teams during the rest of the year to make any real money. Thus, they play because of the much-quoted Love Of The Game. I’ll get off the soapbox now, but Cappie Pondexter and Sylvia Fowles and Maya Moore and Tina Charles and Kelsey Griffin and Diana Taurasi can all dunk on that twitterer and everyone else who disses women in sports and tell his girlfriend, his mama, AND his preschool teacher how he cried like a *.

Party thread is up.