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San Jose Sharks Evangelist Ralph Barbieri Comes Clean

Radio personality Ralph Barbieri is Sharks Fan #1 at KNBR 680, and has been screeching his way into the hearts of many Bay Area listeners for many years, but never mine. So, what do you do when your own…Read More

NHL: Logan Couture Almost Celebrated at D-List Celebrity Clogged Awards Show

Let’s hope a little bottle service last night in Vegas helped Logan Couture deal with being shafted for the Calder Trophy.  As Logan is too classy a player to grumble or gripe following his losing…Read More

Five Stages of Shark Grief and the Holy Stanchion

  In a handful of seconds last night, during the San Jose Sharks series elimination loss to the Vancouver Canucks in the Western Conference Finals, I moved at Mach 4 speed through the classic stages…Read More

Marleau Fought. That’s How Bad It Was.

Nobody on Earth believes in the San Jose Sharks…yes, again. After turning in one of their worst games last night in Vancouver, losing 7-3, the San Jose Sharks have put themselves back into familiar…Read More

Does One Game Really Decide Fate of Sharks Franchise?

Tonight’s game is the most important game in the history of the San Jose Sharks franchise. Like many fan bloggers out there, I can be fairly accused of hyperbole when describing the San Jose Sharks,…Read More

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Comrades! Rise Up Against the Real Red Menace!

Comrades, Tonight is the dawn of a new world order, a glorious moment in San Jose Sharks history that…Read More

Sharks to Face Desperate Wings Tonight in Possible Game of the Year

The San Jose Sharks have a chance tonight to put a strangle hold on the Western Conference Semifinals…Read More

Enter the Old Enemy

The back slapping (and sliding) down in Los Angeles was fun while it lasted, especially considering…Read More

The Quick and the Dead

This post was originally published yesterday on the Yahoo! Sports Puck Daddy site, and my many thanks…Read More

Sharks Look to Gut the Kings

Tonight, the San Jose Sharks will head into Game #5 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals up an imposing…Read More

NHL Playoffs: Coin Flip…Which Sharks Team Shows Up Tonight?

So, which team do we get tonight? Last Thursday night saw an electric beginning to the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs for the San Jose Sharks.  With playoff hockey anticipation in the air, the Tank was abuzz…Read More

2011 NHL Playoffs: San Jose Sharks, Hope and the Tao of Point Break

The term tao describes a concept having ineffable qualities that prevent it from being defined or expressed in words.  It is something subjective—a feeling— that must be experienced or felt. The…Read More

Return of the Kings

After a San Jose Sharks regular season chock full of criticism, action, praise, malaise, conjecture, hope, abominations and a finish of pure excellence, the NHL postseason is officially upon us, and the…Read More

Couture to Turn Calder Into Hookah

First off, you will not find a bigger Logan Couture fan than me, period. The kid has crashed the scene with absolutely gaudy numbers (31 G, 23 A, +19, 9 PPG, 8 GWG), and if the San Jose Sharks had a Hart…Read More

Sharks Featuring Nightly Beatings at Tank

Let the beatings commence! The San Jose Sharks are currently putting on a clinic of how to finish off a regular season, and any concerns that the team is not taking their final games seriously is starting…Read More

Why Owen Nolan Still Rules

Anybody remember this guy? This particular player hasn’t been in town for over eight years, but you can still get a smile out of any San Jose Sharks fan by just mentioning his name—Owen Nolan.…Read More

Sheriff Clowe Serves Notice

Last night Ryane Clowe updated Cory Sarich’s jerk card. See, back in the day, the Calgary Flames defenseman earned himself a lifetime target-on-back membership with his infamous decapitation of Patrick…Read More

Pavelski Better at Hockey Than Most Canadians

Perhaps it’s the amount of time throughout his life that San Jose Sharks forward Joe Pavelski has spent around actual Canadians, but the exposure seems to be paying dividends. Not only does Pavelski…Read More

Marleau Bags Game Winner With Stolen HOF Stick

Pure speculation, but how else to you explain all these game-winning goals? To borrow from an old Boston bumper sticker, “Jesus Saves, Marleau Scores on Rebounds”…or, more appropriate…Read More

NHL Should Award Steve Ott Lady Byng Trophy

DALLAS, Texas – March 15, 2011 The NHL, in a surprise move months before the annual player awards were to be handed out, have circumvented the Professional Hockey Writers Association and named Dallas…Read More

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