
This was just a hunch, but when the San Jose Sharks failed to sign a veteran backup goalie to replace outgoing Brian Boucher, the question was - if the Sharks were going to make a serious run in the playoffs, why wouldn’t you go out and find an known commodity to protect your net instead [...]
Professional sports leagues have the best marketing departments. Because they’re promoting something that really has no down side and no real side effects when compared to other things in our world, they’re free to go all out to make their product look like the best thing since refrigerated indoor ice.
One of the best marketing [...]
The Chicago Blackhawks are coming back to town. The proper sports cliché would be “Chicago Blackhawks return to the scene of the crime”. The most humiliating game in recent history occurred the last time the Blackhawks visited The Tank. I’m a huge fan of payback as a motivator, and nothing would make [...]
The problem with writing about the San Jose Sharks is that they’re too consistent - they just win (in the regular season). If the team were ‘inconsistent’, or full of surprises, it might be easier to find things to write about. Take puckgal and her Phoenix Coyotes. All the Coyote woes - [...]
For those of you who may not remember there was excitement in the United States surrounding the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. A rule change allowed countries to send professionals to compete for Olympic gold in basketball. Obviously the United States has a huge advantage over other countries when it comes to basketball. The [...]
After a rare exhibition of futility, the San Jose Sharks have managed to put together a nice 6-game winning streak - restoring faith and hope that all will be well in Sharkland. As the year winds down I’ve decided to document a few random thoughts I’ve had rattling around my head for a while (I [...]
Because I’m a glass half-empty kind of guy I wanted to guage the significance of the San Jose Sharks recent exercises in futility. The last time the Sharks lost 5 games in a row you have to go all the way back to the 2007-2008 season. From Feb 12-20, 2008 the Sharks lost [...]
There were many reasons why I started this blog, one if which is my personal battle with Ray Ratto. I’ve written about Ratto on more than a few occasions and really, I need to stop writing about him. Like they say, bad publicity is better than no publicity - but then again I [...]
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I got an email this morning from Son of OT that Evgeni Nabokov said Marc-Edouard Vlasic should have blocked the shot that allowed the St. Louis Blues to tie last night’s game with 6 seconds left to go. The Sharks went on to lose that game in a shoot out. Calling out a [...]