2012 Offseason

With lockout talk dominating hockey discussion, we essentially haven't heard anything about free agents not named Shane Doan since late July. Some of that is due to CBA uncertainty and some of that is due to there not being very many attractive UFAs still available: the biggest names on the

If the NHL's latest proposal in their ongoing labor negotiations with the Players' Association is accepted, the 2012-13 salary cap will be set at $58 million. 16 teams, including the San Jose Sharks, are currently over that total and, according to CSN Philadelphia's Tim Panaccio, there won't even be a

One somewhat underreported angle of Brad Stuart's return to San Jose is that the defenseman was almost exclusively slotted into the right side on Detroit's blueline over the past four-and-half seasons while the expectation is that he'll be able to play left defense on the Sharks, likely on a pairing

We're a month into free agency and while there are still a few free agents of note out there as well as a few trade dominoes that have yet to fall, it doesn't hurt to review what the rest of the Pacific Division has been up to so far this

The universe served Michal Handzus a shit sandwich during the 2011-12 season. It began with the tragic Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash last summer that took the life of Handzus' countryman, former teammate and dear friend Pavol Demitra. It continued with one of the worst campaigns of Handzus' career that teetered