Author: Lachlan Irvine

2021-22 Toronto Maple Leafs Preview: All or Nothing?

By Lachlan Irvine | Sep 18th 2021 | 5 min read |

Ah, the Toronto Maple Leafs. The living embodiment of Sisyphus rolling a boulder up a hill. Or Charlie Brown trying to kick a football. No matter how ...

2021-22 Ottawa Senators Preview: The Young and the Chaotic

By Lachlan Irvine | Aug 30th 2021 | 5 min read |

The Ottawa Senators are an experiment in pure, unadulterated chaos. There was little doubt last season that the Senators were a lock for last place, e...

Be there or be square: Five reasons you can’t miss Flames at Sharks

By Lachlan Irvine | Feb 3rd 2020 | 7 min read |

Though the San Jose Sharks and Calgary Flames might not be the first rivalry you think of when it comes to either team, when you’ve been in a divisi...

Canucks at Sharks Preview: Game of Hughes proportions

By Lachlan Irvine | Dec 13th 2019 | 5 min read |

Psst, listen. Do you hear that? It’s the winds of change. For the San Jose Sharks (15-17-2, 6th Pacific), those winds came in the form of a brand ne...

Islanders at Sharks Preview: Piping hot fishsticks

By Lachlan Irvine | Nov 23rd 2019 | 4 min read |

There’s nothing like beating a team whose owner called your own “a mean, nasty team” to make yourself feel good. The confidence the San Jose Sha...

Oilers at Sharks Preview: When Oil meets Sharknado

By Lachlan Irvine | Nov 18th 2019 | 5 min read |

The last time I wrote a game preview about the San Jose Sharks (10-10-1) was back on November 2, which coincidentally was also the last time the Shark...

Canucks at Sharks Preview: The Twilight Petter-zone

By Lachlan Irvine | Nov 2nd 2019 | 4 min read |

If you’d told the San Jose Sharks (4-9-1) and tonight’s opponents, the Vancouver Canucks (8-3-2), that by the start of November one of them would ...

Sharks at Maple Leafs Preview: St. Patty’s Day

By Lachlan Irvine | Oct 24th 2019 | 5 min read |

The San Jose Sharks (4-5-1) hit the midway point of their Eastern road trip tonight with a stop in Toronto to face the Maple Leafs (5-4-2), but tonigh...

Pacific Peeks: Vancouver Canucks

By Lachlan Irvine | Sep 21st 2019 | 6 min read |

It’s been a long, long time since you could mention the Vancouver Canucks and “playoffs” in the same sentence. And yet, here we are. The Canucks...

2018-19 Season Review: Martin Jones and the tale of two goaltenders

By Lachlan Irvine | Jun 9th 2019 | 7 min read |

There’s one phrase that perfectly encapsulates Martin Jones’ 2018-19 season: roller coaster. In a way, Jones was the living embodiment of the this...