150113 – postgame Sharks @ Coyotes

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And the boys did their dads proud.

It was a back-and-forth game, but the Sharks succeeded in notching the final lead.

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150113 – pregame Sharks @ Coyotes 6pm

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Sharks players and their dads are in Arizona for Tuesday’s game.  Historically, the “father’s trip” has resulted in some good games and some horrendous games (including the “Coyote Ugly” game where GM Doug Wilson lambasted the players in the bus for 20 minutes while the dads got on the plane). From this, it’s impossible to categorize how the guys will play.

Meanwhile, in the desert, the Coyotes have not been playing well at all, dwelling near the bottom of the division, conference and league. Rumors abound regarding just about every player on the roster.

The Sharks played well (definite room for improvement) against St Louis, and here’s they’re chance to prove it.

Dubnyk vs Niemi.  Desjardins back in SJ with wife (on baby watch). Arizona’s Hanzal, Gormley out; Michalek in.

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141122 – postgame Coyotes @ Sharks

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Home record sinks to 2-3-2.  The addition of Dillon did not guarantee a win.

First period was not a good one, but the Sharks had more success in the 2nd and 3rd.  Still, they lost in the shootout.

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141122 – pregame Coyotes @ Sharks 7:30pm

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Sharks home record is 2-3-1.  Not acceptable when compared to their historic norm.  Especially when they’ve been swept by a few Eastern Conference teams.

After a long string of non-division opponents, they are facing the Arizona Coyotes, for the first time this season.

But it won’t be with the same line up that was iced on Thursday, as on Friday, D Jason Demers (and a 2016 3rd pick) was traded to the Dallas Stars for D Brendan Dillon.  Dillon, wearing #4, is expected to be in the line up Saturday against the Coyotes.

In case you’re wondering, this is not a new opponent, but they do have a new name.  Part of the lease arrangement with the new owners of the Coyotes is to change their “location” from Phoenix (many miles from the city of Glendale where the arena is located) to Arizona (hoping to be able to have a better outreach to the state, perhaps).

TRANSACTION:  Burish put on waivers (so likely to be scratch tonight).

Appears that it’ll be Niemi vs Dubnyk in the nets tonight.

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141003 – Sharks @ Coyotes postgame

Hockey is back on the radio!!   It was very refreshing to hear live play-by-play again.

New voice in my ear, Bret Hedican, analyzing to Rusanowsky’s play-by-play.  Seemed to be working fairly well.  Some good insights, and good pacing between the two.

Thornton and Goldobin were among the more notable players not participating in the tilt for the Sharks.

Stalock kept the Coyotes in check, with Scott making sure things were “nicely” played.  McGinn (dust up with Crombeen) and Braun (after boarding on Couture) dropped the gloves as well.  Nieto and McGinn scored, with Wingels notching an insurance empty netter after Stalock’s shut out was thwarted.  Sharks won 3-1.  With a goal and fight, McGinn was #1 star of the game.  Nieto’s goal and play netted him the #3 star of the game.

(Niemi previously faced the Coyotes, loosing in a shootout, so this was Stalock’s game.)

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141003 – preseason Sharks @ Coyotes pregame

Sharks are heading off on the road for their final two road games.  Both games will be on the Sharks Radio Network.

First up is a rematch with the Arizona Coyotes.

Sharks have not (yet) announced any further cuts since the last game, but Dohery, Fedun and Goldobin have each taken one or more maintenance days.  (So hard to determine exact line combinations or pairings that might be used in tonight’s game.)  But with Sheppard and Kennedy probably on the IR to start the season, a few forwards may get longer looks.

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  • 13m13 minutes ago Dave Tippett says Mike Smith will start tonight’s preseason game vs. Sharks & Sam Gagner will play on line w/ Martin Hanzal & Martin Erat

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140926 – postgame

The Sharks squad was populated with a lot of rookies and prospects.  There were flashes of brilliance from many, a number of players showing their rust.

But even with a surfeit of shots, the Sharks only managed one goal, on the power play.  They did ensure the fans saw some new rules in place, such as the cleaning of ice before overtime and the swapping of ends into the OT and for the shootout.

Defensively, the team was pretty good.  But if you aren’t scoring, it’s hard to win.  (At least it’s the preseason.)

Sharks 1-2 SO Coyotes

McLellan is talking about the possibility in his post game interview that a few vets might be elsewhere when the season starts as they’ve been supplanted by those rookies.  (Especially on the blueline.)

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140926 – preseason Coyotes @ Sharks 7:30pm

The Sharks are ready host their first preseason game against the renamed Arizona Coyotes.

Sharks have skated for a couple of days since the split squad games against Vancouver to work on a few things and do some more analysis of players in camp.  Roster sits at 45, and probably won’t have any more reduction until after this weekend’s pair of preseason game.  (The AHL camp starts on Monday. And the waiver period — to clear players to be assigned to AHL — starts 12 days before start of NHL season, so some could not be sent down until that started.  Thinking there will be a number of names on the waiver wire Sunday.)

But for the game Friday (and Saturday), expect a number of prospects and AHL names on the ice.  Perhaps everyone healthy will be in the lineup, one or the other game.  (CBA rules that at LEAST 8 NHL vets and/or first round picks be in the lineup.)  Sounds like Niemi may get his first start of the preseason on Friday.

Meanwhile, in Glendale, Arizona…. The Coyotes played an early preseason game as part of Kraft Hockeyville against Calgary. They’ve played five (some split squad) games already.

No TV coverage/stream.  And does not appear to be any radio feed either. Twitter for the latest (see lists below).

In the afternoon, the Sharks announced the signing of 2014 first round draft pick Nikolay Goldobin (whose agent is former Shark Igor Larionov), and (finally) announced signing of draftee Julius Bergman.

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