Sharks vs. Avalanche preview: The McGinn Bowl
Former Shark Jamie McGinn will take on brother and current Shark Tye McGinn as the Sharks make their lone trip to Denver of the season.
Coming off their most impressive performance of the season, the Sharks head to Denver in search of their first win at the Pepsi Center in nearly three years. It'll also be their first game against Brad Stuart since the early July trade that sent the former San Jose defenseman to Colorado for a second-round pick. Antti Niemi will be between the pipes tonight, the second time he's started consecutive games so far this season, for what many (okay, just me) are referring to as The McGinn Bowl with brothers Jamie and Tye set to face each other for the first time in their NHL careers.
Tale Of The Tape
 | @ |  |
| 5-4-1, 11 points | Record | 2-4-3, 7 points |
| Tied-3rd in Pacific | Rank | 6th in Central |
| 49.7% | Score-Adj. Fenwick | 44.2% |
| 101.9 | PDO | 98.1 |
| 25.0 | PP% | 14.3 |
| 80.0 | PK% | 88.6 |
6PM PST | Pepsi Center | Denver, Colorado
TV: CSNCA-HD | Radio: SJSharks.com, 98.5 KFOX
Know Your Enemy: Mile High Hockey, Jibblescribbits
Projected Sharks Lineup
Patrick Marleau - Joe Thornton - Joe Pavelski
Tomas Hertl - Logan Couture - Tommy Wingels
James Sheppard - Chris Tierney - Matt Nieto
Tye McGinn - Andrew Desjardins - Adam Burish
Marc-Edouard Vlasic - Justin Braun
Mirco Mueller - Brent Burns
Scott Hannan - Jason Demers
Antti Niemi
Alex Stalock
Projected Avalanche Lineup
Ryan O'Reilly - Nathan MacKinnon - Gabriel Landeskog
Alex Tanguay - Matt Duchene - Jarome Iginla
Jamie McGinn - John Mitchell - Maxime Talbot
Cody McLeod - Daniel Briere - Marc-Andre Cliche
Jan Hejda - Erik Johnson
Brad Stuart - Tyson Barrie
Nick Holden - Zach Redmond
Semyon Varlamov
Reto Berra
Last Meeting
Marty Havlat scored a hat trick (!!!) and Tomas Hertl made an unexpected return to the lineup for the first time since recovering from his knee injury as the Sharks defeated Colorado 5-1 on April 11th in their final home game of the 2013-14 regular season.
Storylines
- John Scott will begin serving his two-game suspension after the department of player safety deemed him in violation of Rule 70.2 for his role in the line brawl at the end of the Sharks' win in Anaheim.
- Tyler Kennedy appears to be inching closer towards making his season debut as he was sent to Worcester on a conditioning stint yesterday.
- Colorado is coming off a 2-1 overtime loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday which the Avs' official website put a, uh, interesting spin on.
- Top Avs defenseman Erik Johnson left that game with a head injury and did not return but has cleared the league's concussion protocol and will be in the lineup tonight.