Despite his amazing start, Patrick Marleau probably isn't going to score 96 goals this year. What will be widely cited as the reason for his upcoming cold streak?

Excited for the Sharks home opener? It's not all awesomeness, though. Here's a quick refresher on some of the less-than-stellar parts of the HP Pavilion experience.

The Spartans played some very entertaining hockey last weekend, and earned a sweep over three Southern California rivals. They'll need that momentum as they prepare for one of the most important weekends in the regular season.

The Spartans needed to get their feet back under them against College of the Canyons. A big test awaits with the final road trip until the playoffs.

From local crime statistics to the one Shark who appears to be as good a negotiator as a federal mediator, take a look at what San Jose Sharks fans learned during the 2012 NHL Lockout.

The FTF fantasy hockey leagues are now open! Join in if you want bragging rights over your fellow commenters and your favorite* writers! *And also me!

The Spartans are ready to hit the ice for the start of the second half of the season. But how will they react to a dramatically smaller roster this semester?

Teams still can't sign players until the new CBA is ratified, but Fear The Fin was able to ink a free agent of our own.

The NHL lockout meets one of the greatest trilogies of all time: Back to the Future. A parody that poses one solution for fixing the lockout.

It's Christmas Eve but since presents apparently count as hockey-related revenue, Santa has been instructed to avoid locked-out NHL players this year. Here's what the Sharks' gift haul would have looked like.

As the league and union inch towards a new CBA, we ask ten questions that we would probably know the answers to by now if this lockout hadn't prevented the Sharks from taking the ice.

Sharks captain has had an eventful week in Switzerland, for the right and wrong reasons.

Further CBA negotiations are looming but the prospect of an NHL season still remains very much up in the air. But the question too few are asking is whether or not that might be a good thing. Here's a rundown of the reasons we don't miss NHL hockey.

On November 30th, 2005 the San Jose Sharks changed forever with the acquisition of one Joe Thornton from the Boston Bruins. We look back at seven years of Jumbo's effortless passing, physical dominance and questionable ventriloquism.

The Spartans schedule has two road trips in three weeks, all against ranked opponents. After going 1-1-1 in Utah, SJSU ends the semester in Colorado this weekend. Not only that, but it's the final time we'll see one player in a Spartan uniform.

The Spartans dismantled Stanford and wore out Santa Clara last weekend, but they have a huge test this weekend when they travel to the state of Utah.