SHARKS RUMORS & GOSSIP
How About Some New Rules And Torres Talk Too
from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,
* New rule: When a penalty is assessed at the 20:00 mark of a period, the next period shall begin with the faceoff in the offensive zone of the club on the power play and not at the center dot.
New rule: When a player intentionally is thrown out of the faceoff circle following an icing in order to give his team a few extra seconds...
Cam Gore: Couture's first OT playoff goal beats Kings
Ryan Leong filling in for Cam Gore who is on assignment. Cam will be back for Game 4.
Logan Couture is coming of age.
Couture has been mentioned numerous times on this blog how important he is to this team and this game only punctuates how he is the unquestioned 'leader' now. Sure the Sharks still have Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau but even the fans are aware how...
Logan Couture saves San Jose Sharks season with overtime winner
Saturday night's contest was "Must Win" for the San Jose Sharks, a loss would put the team in a deep 3-0 hole against the defending Stanley Cup Champion, Los Angeles Kings and San Jose's season would certainly be over with in LA victory. Luckily, for the San Jose Sharks the power play was working in Game 3. Just after the ice was cleaned to start the game...
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Sharks fined $100k for GM comments
The San Jose Sharks were fined the huge sum of $100,000 for GM Doug Wilson's comments on the Raffi Torres suspension. What did he say?
San Jose GM Doug Wilson On The Torres Suspension
from the Sharks website,
The Sharks organization fully supports the NHL in its efforts to remove illegal and dangerous hits from the game but we strongly disagree with the NHL's decision to suspend Raffi Torres.
Upon review of the incident, it is abundantly clear that this was a clean hockey hit. As noted by the NHL, Raffi's initial point of contact was a shoulder...
Sharks GM Doug Wilson ‘strongly disagrees’ with Raffi Torres suspension in statement
On Thursday the NHL suspended Sharks winger Raffi Torres for the remainder of San Jose’s second round series against the Kings for a hit on Jarret Stoll in Game 1. We concluded the punishment was a bit of an overreaction by the NHL, a penalty that seemed to discipline the player more for his past rather than the offense in question. If you thought you were mad, imagine how Sharks...
Dancing Bunny at Sharks-Kings Game Turns Out to Be San Jose Fan Who Lost Bet (GIF)
Whatever you do, don’t lose a bet to a San Jose Sharks fan.
On Thursday, the Los Angeles Kings defeated the Sharks 4-3 at Staples Center in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals. However, there was at least one fan in the building who probably wishes he hadn’t been there.
Cameras caught some fleeting glimpses of a man decked out in a full head-to-toe bunny costume, which...
TJ Galiardi tries to change, LA Kings won’t let him
San Jose Sharks forward TJ Galiardi was going for a line change after a long shift and skated too closely to the Los Angeles Kings bench. Kings’ Dustin Brown was the first to impede him after Brown was shoved by Galiardi. Brown tried to put Galiardi into the Kings bench, but when that didn’t work, Brown held his arm until he decided let him free. Galiardi was careless with...
Sharks rely on rookie D Matt Irwin
When the San Jose Sharks moved defenseman Brent Burns to forward in March it provided an immediate spark to what had been a lackluster season to that point.
Burns' physical presence up front allowed the Sharks to move Joe Pavelski to the third line and gave a scoring-challenged team much more depth to help lead the Sharks into the second-round of the playoffs.
Burns' move...
Via AP on Fox
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Sharks Second Round Matchup Preview
After a first round sweep of the Vancouver Canucks, the Sharks are resting up as they await their Western Conference Semifinal opponent.
With the NHL playoffs being played at a bruising and punishing pace, the one thing the Sharks are absolutely rooting for is that all other Western Conference series to go seven games.
As the six seed, San Jose will most likely not have home ice...
In sin bin, Canucks defenseman Kevin Bieksa ridiculed by Sharks fans (video)
The San Jose Sharks mercifully ended the season for the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night, completing the series sweep courtesy of a 4-3 overtime victory in front of the hometown fans at HP Pavilion. And while the game was not without controversy — a controversial boarding penalty called on Daniel Sedin (his brother Henrik called the penalty “bulls**t”) led to Patrick Marleau’s...
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