Category: Sharks Game Recaps

Sharks vs. Blues, Game 1, The Morning After: Coin toss goes the way of St. Louis

By Jacob Sundstrom | Mar 6th 2019 | 3 min read |

For the first time in the 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Sharks trail in a series. San Jose sat tied with Los Angeles only in game one and then twice ...

The Morning After: Joe Pavelski is the hero again

By Jacob Sundstrom | Mar 6th 2019 | 3 min read |

Two nights after a brutal, triple-overtime loss to the Predators in Nashville, the Sharks bounced back to retake command of the best-of-seven game ser...

Sharks vs. Predators, Game 7: San Jose's win was never in doubt

By Jacob Sundstrom | Mar 6th 2019 | 3 min read |

I settled down into my couch, laptop in front of me and turned on the TV. Excited? Not really. Nervous? Yeah, that fits more snugly. The puck dropped ...

Sharks vs. Predators, Game 6, The Morning After: So we've got a game seven

By Jacob Sundstrom | Mar 6th 2019 | 13 min read |

After thoroughly dominating game five, the Sharks got their butts kicked on Monday night in Nashville. Sure, the scoreline only read 4-3 in favor of t...

Sharks vs. Predators, Game 3: The penalty box blues

By Jacob Sundstrom | Mar 6th 2019 | 3 min read |

Nashville ended the Sharks four-game winning streak and six-game road win streak on Tuesday night. That’s a game Sharks fans can comfortably say...

The Morning After: San Jose fails to convert on its opportunities in loss

By Jacob Sundstrom | Mar 6th 2019 | 2 min read |

That loss will sting for a while. Unlike game three’s relatively anti-climactic conclusion, the Sharks had chance after chance to win game four ...

Sharks vs. Predators, Game 2: Martin Jones comes up huge

By Jacob Sundstrom | Mar 6th 2019 | 7 min read |

The Sharks and Predators played relatively evenly on Sunday afternoon — until Mattias Ekholm snapped home Nashville’s first goal of the contes...

Sharks vs. Predators, Game 1: The second line shows its teeth

By Jacob Sundstrom | Mar 6th 2019 | 3 min read |

Joe Thornton, Joe Pavekski and Brent Burns carried the Sharks past the Kings in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. On Friday night, Logan Co...

The Morning After: The Sharks decisively beat L.A.

By Jacob Sundstrom | Mar 6th 2019 | 3 min read |

Coming into this series my concerns laid almost entirely in the Kings‘ stifling possession game and the lack of power play time the Sharks were ...

Sharks vs. Kings Game 4: Special teams play gets it done

By Jacob Sundstrom | Mar 6th 2019 | 7 min read |

San Jose scored three times on the power play in its game four victory over the Kings, but the pair of penalty kills loom nearly as large for the Shar...