All Posts Tagged With: "san jose sharks"

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Post-Hitchcock era begins with win.

Anton Stralman’s goal stood as the game’s lone goal for more than two periods before R.J. Umberger added some soon-to-be-needed insurance on an empty-net goal with just over a minute remaining.

February 4th, 2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Back on Track – Mid week reports

The Columbus Blue Jackets played their third straight overtime game last Wednesday night when they fell to the Sharks in a shootout. The San Jose loss came in the middle of what has turned into a five game point streak for Columbus, their longest of the season. This is the midweek report. Last Three: San [...]

November 11th, 2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Midweek Report 10/13/09

Three games later, the Columbus Blue Jackets are still off the their best start in franchise history. A loss on the road at San Jose Thursday night, followed by consecutive victories over Phoenix and Calgary lead the Jackets to their 4-1 record, and a spot atop the central division.

October 14th, 2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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FTC Power Rankings through 10/12/09

1. New York Rangers: The Blueshirts are 5-1 on the season. Free agent signing Marian Gaborik as 5 goals and 9 points in those games but can he stay healthy? 2. Pittsburgh Penguins: It’s hard to pick against the defending champs at 4-1. They were shutout in their one loss by a Phoenix team flying [...]

October 13th, 2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Jeff Little joins FireTheCannon

Within the next day or two, Jeff will be moving his blog writing over to Fire The Cannon, joining some other fine hockey writers on this site, and hopefully providing the fans & readers with a more streamlined experience, with fewer individual sites to visit to get a variety of perspectives on the Jackets. There [...]

September 14th, 2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Sharks Nab Heatley In Three Team Deal??? Reports abound, but denials rage

According to a report on NHL Fanhouse (here), and later by ESPN, Ottawa has finally consummated a deal for troubled winger Dany Heatley, shipping him to the San Jose Sharks in a three team deal that has the Sharks sending former captain Patrick Marleau to the Los Angeles Kings, and the Kings packaging forward Alexander Frolov [...]

September 11th, 2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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The Arena Manifesto — Prologue

I have now completed my discussions with Greg Kirstein, Sr.Vice President and General Counsel for the Blue Jackets, reviewed data furnished by both Greg and VP of Public Relations Todd Sharrock, and have done some independent review of data, assembled my thoughts, and now tackle the task of putting some perspective and context on the [...]

June 6th, 2009 | | 4 comments | Continued
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A Parable

Once upon a time there was a professional hockey team. This was a brand new hockey team in the NHL, in an area where hockey was not necessarily the primary sport of interest. The fans were enthusiastic, and a shiny new arena was built for the team, after some debate and delay. But this team [...]

February 22nd, 2009 | | 8 comments | Continued
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York Called Up — Decisions To Make — NHL Letter

Per Puck-Rakers, Mike York has been recalled from Syracuse to join the club, and Clay Wilson has been returned. We need to see if Brassard formally goes on IR today, which will then put some decisions on the desks of Hitch and Howson. Complicating matters is Leclaire’s continued poor play. 6 goals last night, 5 [...]

December 19th, 2008 | | 1 comment | Continued
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WOW!!! Happy Birthday HItch!!!

If Hitch has a list of things he wanted for his birthday (and I doubt that he does), #1, #2 and #3 on that list would likely have been a gutty home win over the best team in Hockey, the San Jose Sharks. Well, he got his wishes . . .in spades. Make no mistake [...]

December 18th, 2008 | | 0 comments | Continued