The San Jose Sharks Blog

The Sharks are back on top of the NHL standings. They are on an 8 game winning streak. The Sharks have 61 points and are only 3 points in front of second place New Jersey Devils who have 59 points. The Sharks are playing the Kings on Monday Jan. 4th at 7:30 in San Jose.

The Olympic rosters for the Vancouver Olympics have been released. The following players have made the following teams.

USA= Joe Pavelski

Sweden= Douglas Murray

Russia= Evgeni Nabokov

Germany= Thomas Greiss

Canada= Dany Heatley, Patrick Marleau, Joe Thornton, Dan Boyle

Tags: Canada, Dan Boyle, Dany Heatley, Douglas Murray, Evgeni Nabokov, Germany, Joe Pavelski, Joe Thornton, Olympics, Patrick Marleau, Russia, Sweden, Thomas Greiss, USA, Vancouver

Vishnevskiy scores for the Sharks giving them the 4 to 2 lead which the held until the end of the game. The goal was given credit to Ryan Clowe.

Tags: Ryan Clowe, Sharks, Vishnevskiy

The Sharks showed a great performance in first period, although they didn’t score. Neither did the Hurricanes. The only penalties were a holding penalty to the Hurricanes’ Pitkanen at 18:54 and a interference penalty to Staubitz at 7:46. The Sharks had 9 shots to the Hurricanes 8.

The second period had a lot more scoring and there were some penalties too. The first goal came at 17:08 and was scored by Brandon Sutter and was assisted by Tom Kostopoulus and Chad Larose. This was followed by the first penalty, which came at 13:44 to Aaron Ward of the Hurricanes. After that all the upcoming 5 goals came from the Sharks. The first Sharks goal came from Kent Huskins at 15:55 and was assisted from Jason Demers and Ryan Clowe. Then only a minute and 22 seconds later Brad Staubitz scored a goal, which was assisted by Jody Shelly and Rookie Logan Couture. The only other goal scored in the second period was from Douglas Murray at 5:08, assisted from Joe Thornton and and Ryan Clowe. Then at 2:08 Manny Malhotra got an interference penalty. That wrapped up the second period with the Sharks taking 11 shots, 20 total and the Hurricanes taking 5 shots, 13 total.

The third period started off fast with Benn Ferriero gaining a hooking penalty a 18:44. Then the Sharks scoring the first of two goals at 15:40 coming from Marc-Edouard Vlasic, assisted by Marleau and Blake. Coming next the Hurricanes Chad Larose got a two minute high sticking penalty at 12:25, followed by another penalty to Andrew Alberts at 9:33 for slashing. The Sharks then scored on the Power Play goal from Patrick Marleau at 8:48 that was assisted from Dany Heatly and Joe Thornton. The only other action that happened was a penalty to Scott Walker at 6:54 for interference. The game ended at 5 to 1 Sharks. The Sharks took 5 shots in the third period and 25 shots total. The Hurricanes took an amazing 13 shots in the third and 26 total.

Tags: Aaron Ward, Andrew Alberts, Benn Ferriero, Brad Staubitz, Brandon Sutter, Chad Larose, Dany Heatly, Douglas Murray, Hurricanes, Jason Demers, Jody Shelly, Joe Thornton, Joni Pitkanen, Kent Huskins, Logan Couture, Manny Malhotra, Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Patrick Marleau, Rob Blake, Ryan Clowe, Scott Walker, Sharks, Tom Kostopoulus

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      Torrey Mitchell played  his first game this season tuesday night. They won 4-3 against the Ducks in Game #3 of the Playoffs. Game #4 will be played at 7:30 P.M tonight in Anaheim. The Ducks are leading the series 2-1.

          Game #3 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs didn’t start so well for the Sharks. Just :17 seconds into the game Marleau got a 4 minute high sticking penalty. Then at :35 seconds Getzlaf took an Interference penalty which helped kill 2 minutes off the double minor to Marleau. The Sharks were able to kill off the rest of Marleau’s minor. The next exciting moment came at 5:25  both Grier and Rob Niedermayer  both got roughing minors. Then just :9 seconds Blake got a goal from the point after his shot was kicked out by Hiller into Drew Miller and went into the net. Then :16 seconds later Pronger got a holding penalty. Unfortunately the Sharks couldn’t capitalize on their 4 on 3.  Then at 9:55 Pavelski took a tripping that turned into a Power Play goal for Bobby Ryan  at 11:12 tying the game at 1 for each team. Then at 11:33 Getzlaf took a hooking penalty which resulted in a Power Play goal for Dan Boyle at 13:07. The next goal came at 14:50 for Wisniewski that tied the game at 2. Nothing much happened until 18:58 when Murray and Parros got into a fight which Murray ended up winning. The period ended with the Ducks taking 8 shots and the Sharks taking 20 shots. The score was 2-2.

         In the 2nd period only 2 goals were scored one was scored by Boyle at 1:05 and the other was scored by Pronger at 11:50. The only penalty was a roughing penalty at 7:27 awarded to Mike Grier. The Sharks took 8 shots and the Ducks took 13. The score was tied at 3 to 3.

        The 3rd period was the period that had the least amount of goals and penalties but was the most exciting. The only goal was scored by Marleau at 10:33 on a Power Play from a hooking penalty that Perry took at 9:07. That ended the game with the Sharks taking 7 shots in the 3rd and taking 35 total. The Ducks took 9 shots in the 3rd and taking 30 total shots. The Sharks finally got a win breaking a 4 game losing streak (counting regular season and post season goals). The Ducks are leading the series 2 to 1.

Tags: Ducks, Sharks, Stanley Cup Playoffs

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Torrey Mitchell              Doug Murray                  Dan Boyle

        The Sharks are down 2 to 0 to the Ducks in the series with the loss on Thursday night (2-0) and last night (3-2). The Sharks will be going into Anaheim down by 2 games.