Category: 2012 Offseason

2012 NHL Awards Open Thread

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 20th 2019 | 1 min read |

The 2012 NHL Awards are live from Las Vegas this afternoon at 4PM on NBC Sports Network. Unlike last year, there are no Sharks players nominated for m...

Sharks Sign Brad Stuart to 3-Year, $10.8 Million Deal

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 20th 2019 | 5 min read |

As reported by TSN’s Darren Dreger, the Sharks have signed recently acquired impending UFA defenseman Brad Stuart to a 3-year contract with an a...

Sharks Have Cap Space; What Should They Do With It?

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 20th 2019 | 17 min read |

This offseason could easily prove to be the most confusing in NHL history and a lot of that centers around the salary cap. As first reported by The Gl...

Could Douglas Murray draw interest at the draft?

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 20th 2019 | 6 min read |

We’re just over a week away from the 2012 NHL Entry Draft in Pittsburgh and along with endless speculation and contentious arguments regarding 1...

2011-2012 San Jose Sharks Season Review: Joe Pavelski

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 20th 2019 | 6 min read |

Full disclosure: Joe Pavelski is my favorite Sharks player so the glowing nature of this review isn’t exactly stemming from an unbiased observer...

2011-2012 San Jose Sharks Season Review: Joe Thornton

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 20th 2019 | 4 min read |

This will be brief since most of what I want to say about Joe Thornton’s season I discussed in a post late in the year. I still stand by my stat...

2011-2012 San Jose Sharks Season Review: Dan Boyle

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 20th 2019 | 5 min read |

As much press as Joe Thornton has received for his evolution as a player the last two seasons (including from this very site), another of the Sharks&#...

2011-2012 San Jose Sharks Season Review: Logan Couture

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 20th 2019 | 5 min read |

After a banner rookie year that saw him finish second in Calder Trophy balloting and break a franchise record for goals by a first-year player, it wou...

What To Expect When You're Expecting (a Brad Stuart signing)

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 20th 2019 | 15 min read |

In perhaps the least surprising move of the offseason, the Sharks acquired exclusive negotiating rights to former Shark and impending Red Wings UFA de...

2011-2012 San Jose Sharks Season Review: Martin Havlat

By Derek Tanabe | Feb 20th 2019 | 5 min read |

Maybe the most important thing to take into consideration when evaluating Martin Havlat’s shortened first season as a San Jose Shark is that he ...