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• The Sports Media Never Disappoints. Another Week of Stunning B.S.

  
  River City Sports Blog — Authority: 120
  I promised myself I would not criticize the mainstream media this week. Like far too many of THEM, I was becoming a one-trick pony. Then the bull cupcakes hit the industrial-sized fan and we were blasted by a another week of utter insanity. So with apologies to those who think Im getting a little obsessed with this ...
  15 hours ago

• San Jose Sharks Get Back To Basics, Snap Five-Game Skid

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  From youth hockey to the NHL, when a team is struggling, almost every hockey coach will stress the three basics to winning hockey. Move your feet, shoot the puck and drive the net. Sometimes, its almost as simple as that. The San Jose Sharks were riding a 0-2-3 win-less streak heading into Thursdays contest against ...
  5 days ago

• The Top 10 Current Lines in the NHL

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  Hockey is a sport that takes every single player on a particular team, to work to the best of their ability in order to reach a certain goal. Yet throughout a team, each player is defined by their particular role. The producer, the checker, the enforcer. The scorers are those who are generally on the top two lines of ...
  6 days ago

• Sharks slump and go winless in 5 straight

  
  The Hockey Writers — Authority: 484
  It’s been an agonizing two weeks in Sharks Territory losing the last 5 of 5 only gaining 3 of a possible 10pts.  Needless to say they have been on the road most of the early season but losing in OT and SO games tells a lot about a team.  Inconsistency, injuries, and weak offensive and defensive play have crippled ...
  1 week ago

• Big Name Players vs. Big Game Players

  
  The Hockey Writers — Authority: 484
  This is a Guest Post by Chris O’Neil (who may be joining us an an Olympics contributor – I’ll ask nicely) (photo courtesy: Phil Walsh - Flickr) It’s been over two months since I last checked in on Team Canada’s process in selecting its roster for the upcoming Olympics.   I felt as though it was in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ritter’s Rant: Crosby, Kessel’s Return, Flyers in Turmoil and More

  
  T.O. Sports — Authority: 141
  By Mark “The Hard Hitter” Ritter… Don’t look now all you Sidney Crosby haters, he may have had a soft stretch there for a while but, given his recent surge, Crosby seems to have righted the ship. Through 29 games Crosby has lit the lamp a total of 19 times, added 17 assists, ranking him third overall in NHL ...
  2 weeks ago

• Should We Stop With The San Jose Sharks Jokes?

  
  Hockey From the Cheap Seats — Authority: 468
  Have you ever been in a situation where the FIRST thing you think about someone is a joke? It might be 5 years old, it might not apply anymore and it might not even be that funny in the first place. But still, every time you hear the person’s name—one thing comes to mind. That seems to be the problem with the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Picking Team Canada’s First Line: Don Cherry Is Wrong!

  
  T.O. Sports — Authority: 141
  By Mark “The Hard Hitter” Ritter… It’s tough to argue with the legendary icon Donald S. Cherry. For the most part, I take what Cherry says as gospel. That said, I have a bone to pick with Mr. Cherry, and his little dog Blue too! Recently, Cherry has come out and endorsed Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rolling Four Lines: Why the San Jose Sharks are Scarier Than Ever

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  The San Jose Sharks have always been talented over the last decade, making the playoffs in 10 of the past 11 seasons including five straight. However, there has always been a clear system to beat them in the postseason. When Joe Thornton arrived in 2005, the game-plan for San Joses opponents was pretty darn simple. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Thornton Helping His Way to Elite Class

  
  Back Porch FanHouse — Authority: 602
  by Adam Gretz Filed under: Sharks Joe Thornton is off to quite a start for the San Jose Sharks this season, entering Tuesdays game against Ottawa tied with the Rangers Marian Gaborik for the league lead with 37 points. Hes also, once again, leading the league in assists (30, five more than Dallas Brad ...
  3 weeks ago

• A “Force United” No More, Jason Spezza Is Paying the Price

  
  T.O. Sports — Authority: 141
  By Mark “The Hard Hitter” Ritter… When you visited the Ottawa Senators website last season the Senators slogan, “A Force United,” was very prevalent. This season, the slogan has disappeared from the site and with it has gone Dany Heatley’s scoring and Jason Spezza’s status as an elite NHL ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama didn’t pardon this turkey: The Sharks are taken out back and shot

  
  The Hockey Writers — Authority: 484
  photo courtsey of MLS FAN20 Or is it tomahawked?  In the spirit of Thanksgiving I thought the title was fitting. I’m usually against booing a team but the Sharks play or lack there of last night encouraged it. The sell out crowd of 17,496 at HP Pavilion was reduced to half before the end of the third period. I ...
  3 weeks ago

• 2009 NHL Fantasy 3 Stars: Week 8

  
  Total Pro Sports — Authority: 148
  The eighth week of NHL Fantasy 3 Stars has some names that may surprise you as they arent necessarily fantasy studs but more of the average or depth variety which isnt a knock on them as they are good players and legit fantasy options. Put, as you can see by the picture, there was one stud that managed to sneak into ...
  3 weeks ago

• 2009 NHL Power Rankings: Week 8

  
  Total Pro Sports — Authority: 148
  As has been the case all year so far, week 8s edition of the 2009 NHL Power Rankings has a lot of movement with a handful of teams make some big positive leaps up the rankings while another handful take a few steps backwards down the rankings. The biggest loser in our NHL Power Rankings this week were the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Team Canada Needs Joe Thornton

  
  T.O. Sports — Authority: 141
  by Jeremy Gibson… Steve Yzerman is either the luckiest or unluckiest man in sports. Depending on how you look at it, the Executive Director and General Manager of Team Canada at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games is either a dream job or a job full of such intense scrutiny only a lunatic could handle it. Yzerman ...
  4 weeks ago

• Yzerman takes a closer look at San Jose’s Olympic hopefuls

  
  The Hockey Writers — Authority: 484
  With the Canadian Olympic team still not set in stone Steve Yzerman is visiting the arenas of the top prospects. This past Friday he was in San Jose and what a night it was. The Sharks faced the gritty Philadelphia Flyers fresh off a win against the Los Angeles Kings. It would be the top line of Thornton, Heatley, ...
  4 weeks ago

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