battleofcali.com - 1/17/2009
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Detroit Red Wings (31-7-6) at San Jose Sharks (32-6-5)
7:30 PM, PST
If one was ever to assign the term "Statement Game" to a specific night in the Sharks schedule, this would have to be it. Tonight's tilt against those pesky Detroit Red Wings comes off the heels of the first regulation home ...
sports.yahoo.com - 1/16/2009
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No. 1 star: Jason Blake , Toronto Maple
Leafs We generally don't get too excited about hat...
tricks capped by empty-net goals here at Three Stars Central, but Blake built up enough style points on goals one and two Thursday to earn a pass. Plus ...
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Thursday's Three Stars: Blake's five points do the trick
sharks.nhl.com - 1/19/2009
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The San Jose Sharks recalled forward Claude Lemieux
from Worcester, reassigned forwards Tom Cavanagh and Brad Staubitz...
to Worcester and placed defenseman Brad Lukowich on injured reserve Monday morning.
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Sharks Recall Lemieux From Worcester
blogs.mercurynews.com - 1/19/2009
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Going out on a limb here: It turns
out Patrick Marleau is going to the NHL All-Star...
game after all. There’s nothing official yet, but let’s just say sources familiar with the situation passed along word that the Sharks will have a third ...
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Patrick Marleau getting a belated invitation to the NHL ...
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Jeremy Roenick on Sharks' showdown with the Detroit Red Wings: 'When you can't beat a team it sticks in your head.'
Puck Daddy —
... It is, however, just another in a series of exams for this San Jose team in its evaluation process. Mike Chen from Battle of California really captures that for the Sharks: ...
Statement Or Just Another Game?
Kuklas Korner —
... As a gameday primer for Battle of California, I wrote that so-called statement games were really only as important as the next big game. That is, any time adversity came into play, the next game really was The Most Important Game Of The Season. ...
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