Matt Hackett stuns Sharks in rookie debut

and pretty lame for the Sharks.

Vandermeer > White Is one thing that was obvious.
They played a darn good 1st period…..till they gave up 2 goals.
And well that’s that.

Oh and I kinda like Winchester on that 1st line. Get him in front of the net to allow Joe get behind the net where he is dangerous.

We are as surprised as you are. Hackett was huge! The Sharks are the one team in the league that make me go ‘’Ah crap, the Wild are gonna lose tonight’’ before each matchup.

Looks like the Sharks are hitting a rough patch, but it can’t last very long, not with games like tonight. 8 shots in the 1st minute was ridiculous. The Sharks won’t stay down very long!

Good game everyone! See you next time!

played an average game tonight. Another thing: tRaDe DaN bOyLe hE ToTALLy SUx. I like that sarcasm font the most. But seriously Boyle, stop making me a sad individual.

I thought they played a pretty solid game together for the new (and, for Braun on the left side, unorthodox) pairing. With a little more seasoning they could probably show more offensive flair—they were understandably kind of tentative early on tonight, at least coming out of the d-zone—but at least both guys avoided any real miscues. If Murray isn’t back Thursday, I’d give them another shot over putting White in there.

Sharks sucked when the Giants made their World Series run last year, led by great defense (pitching) and a mediocre offense. This year, the Niners have somehow already clinched a playoff spot and are considered to be a top team in the NFL with their great defense and an offense led by Alex Smith.

Obviously, when a San Francisco-based team make a run at a championship, they pull their good play from the Sharks.

Special teams is a problem that can be ironed out and isn’t as conducive to postseason success.

or were there like a million backhand wrap-around attempts tonight? Those look so awkward and almost never work

of these 2nd (and now 3rd) string goalies stealing the show against us.

This team will begin to click on all cylinders. Those first 10 minutes or so were just scary good. The wild weren’t sure what to do with themselves. Unfortunately, letting the foot off the gas for a stretch of 5 minutes allowed the Wild to press back and take the lead (which the apparently do often when being down by a few goals). I’m not worried about this team, I don’t feel there should be panic and I don’t see any reason why we should start pointing fingers. This team will come together soon. They played some great hockey in the first half of the 1st and the majority of the 2nd and 3rd. Sometimes the puck just doesn’t go in (seem to be happening a lot to us this year). Our 3rd line is something that gets me excited. When they started the game off, they were instantly in the offensive zone causing all sorts of havoc. They bring so much energy to this team. Pavelski was on fire tonight and it’s too bad he only netted one, because he could have had at least 2-3 more. Vandermeer on D is also something that gives me hope. I like his play with and without the puck a lot more than White has shown. He seems to be comfortable within this system.

PK isn’t perfect, but it has seemed to improve a little over the last few weeks. Pucks need to be cleared immediately. Both on the PK and on the breakout. TOO MANY TURNOVERS. Soft and blind passes make me want to cry myself to sleep. Locate your man, pass him the puck using the boards or the glass. Problem solved.

Hopefully the team will come out with a fire lit under them against Dallas. Sharks need to step up their physicality and there’s not a better team to do it against than the Stars. They’ll get their act together and when they do, maybe the panic and finger pointing will subside! Go Sharks!

Screw the defense. That doesn’t bother me. Nor does the goaltending. I honestly didn’t think Nemo was the issue last night, but we lost so he must have been awful.

My issue is with puck possession, and the sheer volume of turnovers. It just seems like this team has gotten to the point where they’re scared to play the puck, and that leads to hesitation. The Sharks aren’t able to get the puck out of their own zone seemingly half the time, and that’s honestly the most frustrating thing about their play right now. The lack of offense, I think, stems from poor puck possession. And would it kill to have some second chances after shots?

Has this team tuned out the coaches?

Is it time to try and move an overpaid, passed his prime, top player?

Was it a mistake to give up on Seto and Heater to get Havlat and Burns?

Will the PK ever improve?

So much for building momentum at home to climb up the ranks of the Western Conference…This team is slow, older and seems to lack desire on a nightly basis. Other than Torrey Mitchell, I didn’t see the effort it takes to win in this league. That starts at the top with the demeanor of the leadership on this team (Thornton, Marleau, Boyle).

Dan Boyle is 35 ($6,666,666)

Patrick Marleau is 32 ($6,900,000)

Joe Thornton is 32 ($8,000,000)

Other than Pavelski and Couture, I think everyone should be on the trade block.

It’s not too late for this team to turn it around. But for that to happen they will need to trust one another and play cohesively (like the Wild). Instead of seeing this group gel we’re seeing them fall apart. I’d like to believe that Havlat and Burns are better than they’ve shown. But they will have to prove it. If we don’t win tomorrow vs. Dallas, it could easily be 4 more losses with Stl, Chi, and Col on the road. If that happens then it’s really panic time!

I think that might’ve been the best period the Sharks have played all season, yet they somehow ended up down 2-1 (the PK is bad!). That old, tired cliche of if they keep playing like this they are going to win games…it’s true, but it’s a bit frustrating waiting for that to happen.

Dany Heatley made Dan Boyle his bitch on that first goal!

Some of the coaching decisions had me shaking my head last night but what it comes down to is that the Sharks are having an extremely hard time putting the puck in the net lately.

The “use the best guys on the pk” experiment is over. How many times does Jumbo have to be scored on to take him off the first unit? Mitchell and Handzus had an excellent PK last game, Patty has always been solid on the PK when it was rated 3rd in the league instead of 30th… Shaw has me shaking my head every game sending out 19 and 8 only to give up a key goal every time we need a kill. Maybe our offensive execution would get better if we managed the skilled players minutes more and let the guys who are signed specifically to block shots and kill penalties do their thing. Trust, right Todd?

And how it was followed up by a ton of wins? There was a similar sort of thing 2 seasons ago.

I’m going on record and saying that the sharks become awesome by sucking first each season and if we’re getting it out of the way early then so much the better. Maybe it’s naively hopeful, but every time we dump a bunch of losses, the team seems to finally get its collective head out of its ass and remember that they’re a fucking amazing team. So I’m willing to trust that they can do that this time to.

I only hope that shootout win over montreal didn’t screw things up. And I am joking about that.

/denial? Not quite sure.

Anyone got the advanced stats for last game? I have to think it’s tilted way in the Sharks favor.

Slumps happen. Bad bounces happen. I have Center Ice, so I flip around the 4:30 games while I finish my workday and you see these things happen to every team off and on. The good teams just don’t let it slide for 15-20 games.

And one thing to point out — I’d rather lose games based on my own team’s bonehead mistakes instead of just getting dominated left and right. Bonehead mistakes are correctable. Luck evens out.

The only long-term issues I’d worry about right now are the PK and the team as a whole getting too cute with passes and thus making it harder for themselves. That’s happened all year.

It’s worked well for us before… and that way, we get Vancouver out of the way EARLY ON!

…but really, theyre going to turn on the afterburners in the 2nd half, and have about 8000 goals in march.

That’s the best way to call what the Sharks are in now.

I didn’t think Heatley was invisible… the guy SCHOOLED Boyle with that fake shot, which lead to the Koivu goal. I still think some Sharks fans are total morons by the booing of Heatley (boarding call not withstanding) but boo’ing when he’s called for the assist. Are you the ones that still boo Brian Campbell even though him leaving brought us Dan Boyle? I’ll never understand some fans.

This game was a bit two sided. First of all, if the Wild didn’t have the hockey gods on their side last night, it would be been a 4-0 beating in the Sharks favor after the first 10 minutes of the game. Sharks came out hot and it was nice to see. PP and PK still looked very subpar and I think that is what was our demise. The shots were there, some were quality, some not but the effort was there. We just HAVE to improve our special teams if we plan on getting anywhere this post season.

Hoping to stomp the Stars on Thursday! GO SHARKS!

PS: You would think Seto was Justin Bieber with all the teeny boppers around last night haha. One girl was watching the warm ups next to me and every time Seto would come close she would hyperventilate. Thought she was maybe 13… she was 18. Yikes! LOL! Had to share.

then vice versa a la ‘08-’09 when we were owned by the Ducks. Go Sharks.

He seems to be on the ice for every goal right now. Marleau also looks non- existent. I actually thought the first line looked spectacular once Winchester came in with his net presence. I can’t say enough about him or McGinn right now. One change that should be made now is Vlasic and Burns to the top line. Hacket……..

It effectively took the Wild 8 shots and less than 20 minutes to beat the Sharks.

I don’t care if they’re in first place. It should never take so little to win an NHL game, particularly if the Sharks think of themselves as a for real team.

This kind of stretch of play ends your season in the spring. I’m troubled that the team has allowed themselves to be outplayed for so many games in a row.

It’s getting irritating watching the team roll over so easily the past few games. I get that losing streaks happen, and you can’t be elite for 82 games. But this? F this S.