
Sometimes I hate being right, but my hunch about lowered expectations for the San Jose Sharks came true last night as the team barely managed to keep up with the Colorado Avalanche. In the middle of the 3rd period my friend Tom noted that ‘they’re not a team yet’. I couldn’t agree more. [...]
The San Jose Sharks returned from the All Star break looking very refreshed as they easily beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-0 last night. Evgeni Nabokov made some incredible saves and was helped by a great defensive play by Derek Joslin. I think Claude Lemieux was less impressive than he was against Vancouver, [...]
I feel a lot better now that the San Jose Sharks have bounced back, on the road no less, to put together back-to-back wins against the Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks. I didn’t have a very good feeling going into the previous game against the Calgary Flames, something just told me it wasn’t [...]
After two periods of Wednesday’s game it looked like Roberto Luongo might record his 4th straight shutout and extend his new Canuck record for scoreless minutes, but a power play goal by Marek Svatos early in the 3rd period tied the game at 1-1 and Colorado went on to win 2-1 in a shootout. [...]
Early on we were a little concerned about the Sharks record, as impressive as it was it came at the expense of mostly winless teams.
But then the Pittsburgh Penguins came to town. After them were the defending Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings. Next up were the Colorado Avalanche and tonight were [...]