Corrected “Joe Pavelski and Logan Couture” to “Joe Pavelski or Logan Couture” for those currently reading and trying desperately to fend off a heart attack.

And while you’re at it, make sure to read The Neutral’s recap from the Lightning game.

I totally botched this gameday and posted it early. My apologies.

It may just be me but I really think Columbus needs to hit a home run w/ this trade. Moving him for Bernier, who has starter potential and Johnson, who is an absolutely horrible defensemen (yes, he puts up pretty good numbers offensively) seems more like a bunt.

They’re trading both Nash and Carter, I’d think they’d want young, good top 6 forwards back as the centerpiece, they’re D seems more or less set.

I also couldn’t agree more about Columbus needing to wait until the offseason to move him, teams will be willing to move more pieces & be able to take on that contract in the summer.

Although I guess they don’t want to end up like Dallas last year with Brad Richards and lose him over the summer with nothing in return.

I hope this trade is happening to set up another trade. This team needs offense desperately, if they want any chance in the playoffs against a Vancouver or Detroit.

us Sharks fans will be able to make some more Moore jokes.

Dominic Moore kind of looks like Scott Niedermayer? He also plays a lot like Manny Malhotra (speedy center who’s terrific in the dot and good enough defensively that he can drive the play forward even when deployed in tough situations) so maybe he should wear #27.

Once the Sharks find players to replace Ferreiro, Wingels, McCarthy and maybe even Desjardin. I do like Desi’s game, but I think Doug should look for some experience.

KANE

It looks like it’s going to be back up vs. back up tonight as Justin Peters should be getting the start for Carolina.

The Sharks need to bring their A game tonight, Carolina seems to play their best against the better teams in the league.

It also sounds like Murray is out for tonight, the Sharks will need to tighten up their D a lot.

An Adam’s Apple fracture sounds kind of painful…

Predators also get a conditional 5th round pick in exchange for Blake Geoffrion and a 2nd round pick.

Gill is very good shorthanded, but I think he’s been sliding 5 on 5 lately—so while it’s a solid addition for the Predators, I’m not much more worried about them than before.

He’s going to playing 3rd line center tonight between Mitchell & McGinn – gotta say, I’m a little excited to see what that line can do.

I’m guessing McCarthy comes out of the line up and Zus centers Winchester & Desi.

Nash is an impossibility. The Sharks made their move with Dominic Moore. With what was available out there, and with what the Sharks required, this is a move that may or may not have made them better; although to the degrees it improves their overall chances at accomplishing something special this year – sorry, but no, Dominic Moore is not going to help bring the Stanley Cup to San Jose. Judging from this continuing debacle of a road trip (two losses in three games while allowing twelve goals in the three games, and the only win coming against an AHL goaltender at that) it is going to take a lot more depth than yet another mediocre journeyman coming into the cluster of average third and fourth line forwards that the Sharks are laden with already. For the Sharks to make up for their deficiencies, which seems to be spreading into the goaltending as well, the Sharks did need a Nash type player (perhaps a couple of ‘em) without losing anything more at the same time – and that is impossible.
As for the fans thinking ’well that is alright because Havlat is going to return, and this time he’ll be different!" – well okay, you go on hoping, because he played atrocious until his body of glass shattered once again. Havlat will return just in time for another injury is the best case scenario I reckon.

The Sharks lost a game lost night that a Detroit or St Louis team would not have. That is the difference between San Jose and the elite teams right now.

For contender: See how St. Louis handles a weak eastern conference opponent – Blues five, Islanders one.

For currently struggling team: See how San Jose handles a weak eastern conference opponent – Sharks five, ’Bolts six.

That is the reality of this dreaded situation for us fans. Anyway, the Sharks should exemplify the desperation of the situation more eloquently tonight with their game against Carolina tonight.

‘Canes 3 Sharks 1
(I have a feeling the Sharks used up all their offensive guile in last night’s loss.)

This ‘knee-jerk’ poster will be watching the game tonight by way of my ordered TV sports-package, and we’ll all see what’s what at the end, eh?

So maybe it is just a nightmare, the Sharks can always prove my ramblings wrong of course… and paradoxically (or is it more ironically?) I hope they do.

After the Washington game, I praised their effort. I praised their efforts a couple other times as well, when I actually thought they put urgency into their victories.

I just thought heading into Detroit for Sunday, they needed to defeat such low-scale teams such as Tampa and Carolina – they cannot give up any points against these teams and want to be considered serious contenders! Especially giving up SIX against the third last place team in the EASTERN conference!

Sorry if it seems like constant bitterness, but think about it – if the Sharks were living up to their potential, I wouldn’t have to post anything bitter at all, now would I? That speaks about the kind of downward turn of late in my opinion, and being a true fan who has suffered many letdowns with San Jose having awesome teams throughout the years, I am not going to sit by like a ‘Leafs’ fan and ‘accept’ when a team (in my view) is not playing as they should be, could be – with urgency that reaches their full potential.

I would be extremely happy tonight if the Sharks won 5 – 0 and I was forced to look like a complete idiot – I would rather be wrong and no nothing about hockey than the Sharks miss out on winning the Cup finally, and I thought I always established that fact clearly in my posts. Maybe I haven’t, I don’t know, but I am a Sharks fan in Toronto, and it gets quite frustrating when the biased eastern seaboard media seems to be proven right all the time, not by way of fact, but way of results that should have been different if San Jose just put their hearts more on the line – selling your soul is likely the option right? Sell some souls damn it! Do something, … wait what the hell am I talking about?

Anyway, I am a Sharks fan. I complain when they give up 12 goals in three games, and lose two of three when starting a hell of a long road trip… if they won three of three, I would have been among the first posters congratulating and all that, and been quite happy.

Seriously, am I that bad that I have been compared to someone who has actually earned a banning???

Please, this is getting quite ridiculous!

BAR DIDNT HAVE THE GAME