Joe Thornton’s Offense Becoming Jumbo-Sized
Maybe Joe Thornton reads The Hockey Writers. On August 9th, I wrote an article entitled “Joey the Kid Needs Six Shooter to Tame the Wild, Wild West”. The piece postulated…
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Nostradamus Redux: Sharks Embark on League-Best Five Game Winning Streak
Turning the wrong direction from Husky Stadium toward our hotel last night and adding more than two miles to our walk made the phrase “Dad’s always right” ring particularly hollow…
Red Wings Rewind: Week 4 Edition
Red Wings Rewind looks to recap the last 7 days in Red Wings action, both on and off the ice, as well as take a look forward to the challenges…
Five Reasons the Sharks Have Started Slowly — and Five Reasons Not to Worry About It
It is way too early for this article. Only in Columbus are they about ready to jump off the Main Street Bridge and into the Scioto River due to their…
Opening Week Evaluation: The Blackhawks Got Game
The Chicago Blackhawks are off to a 2-1-1 record in their first four games. The season is still young, but there are, naturally, fans out there fretting about early-season injuries…
Hiller, Macenauer and Parros’ Mustache Top Sharks, 1-0
Something that quacks, waddles and eats bugs for breakfast isn’t typically considered more physical than a ferocious animal that devours said creature for its breakfast. And yet, on Friday night…
‘Joey the Kid’ Needs Six Shooter for Sharks to Tame the Wild, Wild West
Back when the western portion of eastern Canada was young, there was a big kid straight out of the frozen, blustery plains of Ontario. At 6’4″ and well over 200…
Center of Attention: Five Changes I’d Make to Sam McCaig’s Top-25 Centers
Jim Neveau, Senior NHL Correspondent With the dearth of NHL activities during the dog days of summer, some writers are turning to the tried and true method of generating lists…
2011 Draft Day Trade: The Sharks That Jumped
When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened — John…
San Jose Sharks’ Left and Right Wing Leanings in the 2011 Draft
Say what? The San Jose Sharks, a team that has advanced to the Western Conference Finals two years in a row and armed to their razor-sharp teeth with elite snipers…
Can A Team Win With Dany Heatley?
Joe Thornton has taken a lot of heat from playoff failures in the past, both in San Jose and Boston. His inability to score (he failed to record a single point…
Round One: Royal Jelly
Before you say anything, there really is such a thing. From the Merriam-Webster dictionary: a highly nutritious secretion of the pharyngeal glands of the honeybee that is fed to the…