sports.espn.go.com - 10/31/2008
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The reverberations of the 2007 Stanley Cup victory of the Anaheim Ducks , it is fair to say, are still being felt. The Ducks partially brawled their way to that title, and last season much of the Western Conference added muscle with which to confront Anaheim. This season, fighting is up again in ...
sports.yahoo.com - 11/7/2008
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SAN JOSE, Calif. All’s well that ends well?
Maybe not. Yes, the San Jose Sharks did become...
just the ninth team to start a season 8-0 at home, but the bad news was right there on the floor in front of their All-Star goalie’s locker-room stall. Evgeni ...
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Sharks bitten on game's final play - NHL - Yahoo! Sports
blogs.mercurynews.com - 11/7/2008
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Here’s what else I’ve been told about Evgeni
Nabokov’s injury: 1. Surgery of any sorts was never...
under consideration. 2. Doctors checked him out last night and again this morning. Somewhere along the way there was significant ...
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Coach: Nabokov’s injury less worrisome than first ...
sports.espn.go.com - 10/30/2008
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Count me in for some NHL viewing tonight.
OK, so I do that every night (much to...
my wife's chagrin), but seriously, there's a pair of real compelling matchups tonight with Detroit at San Jose and Montreal at Minnesota. The road to the Cup goes back ...
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from Damien Cox at ESPN,
Somebody somewhere presumably believes this blood-and-guts stuff sells. It’s 2008 and hockey is still writhing over the value of fighting in the sport. That says it all.
The Detroit Red Wings, needless to say, proved there was another way last season, riding skill, speed and Tre Kronor power to an impressive Stanley Cup title. The Wings hardly fought at all, didn’t carry an enforcer and roared through the postseason.
That left the San Jose Sharks, to name one team, in a bit of a conundrum.
Follow the Ducks or follow the Wings?
Simply being the Sharks, after all, ...
A trick, three frights, and a treat
Snapshots —
... news falls into the "tangential" category. The ESPN's Damien Cox observes the changes made by the San Jose Sharks in their attempt to become more like the Red Wings, starting with Todd McLellan's status as Ron Wilson's replacement, in a lengthy Friday missive. There's a "trick," however, in the fact that he almost exclusively discusses the Sharks' personnel changes and coaching change as a "refresher" from Ron Wilson's tired complaining, and not the tweaks they took from Detroit: October 31, ESPN : [T]he Sharks needed change, and while McLellan was a gamble, at 41 years of age ...
Damien Cox: New-look San Jose Sharks out-Winging their opponents
Chuqui 3.0 —
... ESPN - Damien Cox: New-look San Jose Sharks out-Winging their opponents:
The Detroit Red Wings, needless to say, proved there was another way last season, riding skill, speed and Tre Kronor power to an impressive Stanley Cup title. The Wings hardly fought at all, didn't carry an enforcer and roared through the postseason.
That left the San Jose Sharks, to name one team, in a bit of a conundrum.
Follow the Ducks or follow the Wings?
Simply being the Sharks, after all, wouldn't do. That had become synonymous with strong regular ...
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