sports.yahoo.com - 12/18/2008
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Heading into their showdown in Detroit this evening, nine points separate the first-place San Jose Sharks and the second-place Detroit Red Wings in the Western Conference standings. But what do the standings really tell us, right? It's still Stanley Cup champions versus playoff underachievers. ...
sports.yahoo.com - 12/17/2008
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Through 30 games this season, the San Jose
Sharks have sent a rather clear message: Excuse us,
rest of the NHL, but you're going to need a bigger boat. The Sharks are a juggernaut, setting new standards for regular season dominance under ...
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Twenty-five stunning numbers from the San Jose juggernaut
sports.yahoo.com - 12/19/2008
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Here are your Puck Headlines: A glorious collection
of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere
in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • In the Pittsburgh Penguins ' game against the Atlanta Thrashers ...
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Puck Headlines: Sidney Crosby trains on Valabik's speed bag
sports.yahoo.com - 12/17/2008
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We are unapologetic Jeremy Roenick fanboys here, from
his status as a hockey video game legend through
his candid thoughts on beer . Say what you will about the San Jose Sharks , but the notion that Roenick could finally get his name on the Chalice ...
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Bloggin' Jeremy Roenick claims ref bias against Sharks
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Puck Daddy Roundtable
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Puck Daddy Roundtable
Earlier in the week Greg Wyshynski asked me to partake in a roundtable discussion of tonight's game for Puck Daddy. And despite Dustin's best attempts at becoming le sabateour (you nearly did me in old chap), it was published ...
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Yahoo Sports' Greg "Puck Daddy" Wyshynski asked Red Wings and San Jose Sharks bloggers to take part in a round-table discussion of team's respective strengths and hot-button issues ahead of tonight's game, and both myself and Bill "Abel to Yzerman" Houlihan took part from the Wings' side. Take a gander if you're interested.
Sharktistical Analysis: Even Strength Play
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... There are many reasons for their play this month- injuries to some key players (Cheechoo, Pavelski, Roenick, Michalek), the inevitable realization that it's nearly impossible (in the modern NHL) to continue a points streak as blistering as the one we saw during the first quarter of the year, teams beginning to learn McLellan's system and finding ways to exploit it's weaknesses etc. For the sake of quoting myself (always a treat), here's a quip from the Puck Daddy roundtable: ...
Sharktistical Analysis (A Mideason Special Report): Overall Team Play
Fear The Fin —
... 2) When coming through the neutral zone, teams are standing up our forwards at the blue line. For the sake of time constraints, I'm going to paraphrase my previous article on Puck Daddy for the upteenth time. Not because I love quoting myself (oh, but I do); it is because nothing has changed since then. ...
09-10 Rivalry Depth Chart
Fear The Fin —
... treat every once in awhile). Remember way back when? The day when I peaked as a blogger, before the big time got to me and I pulled a Joaquin Phoenix? Well I do. And I want to share:
In your eyes, has the Sharks' historic start shifted the balance of power in the Western Conference at all? Why or why not?
PLANK (SJ): No. Until Detroit gets beat, nobody is doing a damn thing. There's just something special about that team in May.
-Puck Daddy: Who's The Best In The West?
I get really sad ...
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Yahoo! Sports - NHL News 12/19/2008
Ty Conklin made 24 saves for his sixth NHL shutout and Pavel Datsyuk had two goals and two assists to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 6-0 win over the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night. San Jose has the NHL's best record (25-4-3), but the Sharks ...
