Sharks hosted the Vancouver Canucks for their final home preseason contest.
Jones faced 31 shots, but only gave up one goal on a breakaway.
Wingels and Burns notched two for the Sharks to put the win for the fans.
Sparse building, felt like 1/3rd filled, more clumps in some areas, and large numbers of empty rows in others.
Tierney took a puck to the face, retreated to the locker room for repairs and returned to play.
(Technical issues prevented me from listening to the in arena radio feed.)
The six players on waivers Sunday cleared and were assigned to the Barracuda, along with 3 other players (not requiring waivers). McLaren put on waivers (so expect him to be assigned to AHL tomorrow). Timo Meier was assigned to his QMJHL team which then named him captain.
Current Shark camp roster. Current Barracuda camp roster. (McLaren is listed in neither.)
Prospect Jeremy Roy was named first star of the week for the QMJHL.
Barracuda camp was split into two groups., with G Grosenick doing double duty so both groups could have two goalies.
A day off.
But not without news. Per Renaud Lavoie, the following players have been put on waivers: Mark Cundari, Aaron Dell, Micheal Haley, Bryan Lerg, John McCarthy, Karl Stollery. (All should be heading to AHL.) (Teams have until 9am PT Monday to claim a player. Otherwise they’ll clear.)
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Back at it tonight. A few repeating players from Friday, but a lot of the other guys too.
Jones getting his SAP Center debut (unclear if he’ll play a full game). Ward and Martin will also make their SAP Center debuts. Dell to back up.
Karlsson still on the mend; sounds like he might be ready for Tuesday’s game.
Ducks won at home over the Kings Friday night. Had their morning skate in SoCal before flying north for tonight’s game.
Recap. Sharks owned first. Ducks came out aggressive in 2nd, and owned 3rd. Sharks underestimated their opponent (Ducks >>>>>> Coyotes). Sharks seemed to get complacent after that five minute PK and were not as tight defensively.
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Sharks host the Coyotes on Friday. This is the first home preseason game.
On Thursday, DeBoer indicated that Stalock is scheduled to start, playing the full game. Thornton and Pavelski haven’t yet played in preseason games, so might be in the line up. Karlsson is recovering from a minor injury, and it is not planned he’ll participate in either game this weekend. Torres is skating, but no news on his insertion into a preseason lineup.
Meanwhile, in the desert, the Coyotes had an intrasquad game for their fans on Thursday. They’ll fly to San Jose Friday morning for the game.
Line ups for tonight can be seen here.
Looks like Donskoi will be skating with Pavelski and Thornton tonight; Torres in. No John Scott for Arizona.
Postgame thoughts: While Torres started with the Joes, he ended up on the 4th line most of the night. He did get in a big, thundering hit early in the game, but postgame indicated that he’s still getting into “game shape”.
Donskoi was a giveaway-machine in the early part of the game, but by the end showed his explosive speed, was keeping more control of the puck, forechecking, more successful board battles, and was rewarded with a goal and an assist. Named 2nd star of the game. Definitely giving the coaching staff more to look at when considering the opening night roster.
DeMelo also impressed. Offensively, notched a goal and an assist. Displayed good positional play. Named 1st star of the game. Definitely improved his chances to make his NHL debut with the season opening roster.
Goldobin continued to impress, even not being on the top line. The “80’s trio” of Tennyson, Goldobin and Nieto had a nice shift during the mandated 3×3 OT.
Meier, in an unflashy way, is continuing to show good play as an 18-year old potential NHL rookie. He definitely has the size to play in the NHL. It may just be a question of where he’d fit in the lineup and would he get better minutes to improve playing in CHL?
The Sharks did surrender their first PPG of the preseason (first in regulation, only the second of preseason). PK is much improved from last year. And two more PPGs scored.
Very good to see such an improvement on the defensive side, which was horrendous at times last season.
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(Missed first half of morning practice due to meeting, and apparently they started early.)
Second group had up tempo practice, for just an hour.
New groups:
Preparing for hitting the ice in the first home preseason game on Friday.
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And they rested.
Day off today after nearly a week straight of medicals, practices, scrimmages, and two preseason games.
Hearing that Rourke Chartier has been returned to his WHL team. (Expecting that others may be returning to their respective CHL teams, and/or assigned to AHL camp. Those requiring waivers need to wait until like Sunday for assignment as that’s when the waiver period starts.)
Sharks cut four from camp roster. Rumpel to AHL. Chartier, Roy and Sadowy back to their respective CHL teams.
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Right back at it. This time, facing the Canucks at their home rink in Vancouver.
Some of the players from Monday will be playing in the back-to-back, but a lot will be different. (My guess — some of the rookies/prospects will; and not all the “vets” who didn’t play last night will.)
Pregame update: five vets didn’t even travel to Canada for these two games. Expect the new guys to play tonight (Martin Jones, Paul Martin, Joel Ward).
Reaction — Martin Jones gets shutout win. 4 goals, including 2 on the PPG. And some of the young kids looking real good. That felt a lot better than this time last night!
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On Sunday afternoon, nearly the entire camp (staff and players) headed to Canada. On Monday, part of the group will participate in the 2015 Canada Kraft Hockeyville game (televised locally on CSN-California; nationally on NHL Network, Rogers in Canada). The group will stay in Canada for a game Tuesday in Vancouver at Rogers Place. DeBoer indicated that some players would participate in both games. But as of Sunday night, no list of which players went to Canada, nor who will be playing, has been released.
This game is a celebration of grass roots hockey. Locals who have gone on to hockey stardom include the Benn brothers.
While the team will have an opportunity to enjoy the small (attendance-wise) rink, they can be reminded of the fun they had in their (small) home town rink as they play. But on the serious side, this is an opportunity for players to impress the coaches and scouts to position themselves for the hockey season, on the NHL roster, etc.
First of seven preseason games. First of four road/away preseason games.
Sharks reporting via Twitter lines will be Hertl-Tierney-Wingels, Nieto-Smith-Goodrow, Goldobin-Carpenter-Meier, Sadowy-Lerg-Brown. D pairs Dillon-Tennyson, Mueller-DeMello, Young-Roy. Grosenick starting, backed up by Dell.
RECAP: Grosenick played the first half of the game, replaced by Dell. Neither goalie gave up a goal in regulation. It was tied 0-0 after regulation, so we saw the first 3×3 OT. A few shifts in and the Canucks scored. Wingels and Dillon wore As; Wingels took the ceremonial faceoff.
It seemed like there was a missing gear offensively, but the Hertl-Tierney-Wingels seemed to work well. Dillon-Tennyson was a responsible pair.
The team seemed to relish the excitement of the Hockeyville celebration, including those who did not play (many watched the game from suites).
Technical notes – first period there was no game clock on the TV. Just the basic stats of total SOG I’ve been able to find. Nothing else.
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Sad news came out Saturday night: Former Shark Todd Ewen is dead at the age of 49. Todd played one season, 51 games, with the Sharks before retiring. Death has been classified as a suicide. (AP obit, SJ Merc WTC, OCR, GHL, Yahoo, NBC)
Sunday features a scrimmage between the two groups at Sharks camp. Sunday afternoon, they’ll board a plane for Victoria Island, BC, in preparation for the Hockeyville game Monday night.
Team teal included: Dell, Jones. Martin-Burns; McNally-Roy; Tennyson-Mueller; Ryan. Thornton-Pavelski-Hertl; Tierney-Wingels-Nieto; Lerg-McCarthy-Brown; Donskoi, Meier, Emmanuelsson. Coaches: Ricci, Sommer.
Team white included: Grosenick, Stalock. Braun-Vlasic; Dillon-DeMelo; Stollery-Young; Bergman. Marleau-Couture-Ward; Goldobin-Smith-Barclary; Chartier-Sadowy-Langlois; Helewka-Haley-Jevpalovs. Coaches: Robinson, Mougenel.
(There was no team breakdown listing provided, so I apologize for any errors.)
Scrimmage was two 25-minute running clock periods and 7-minute 3×3 Overtime.
In the first period, Marleau scored for team white and was answered by Donskoi of team teal; Jones and Stalock in nets. No scoring in the second period; but there was a disallowed goal from Meier (high stick); Dell and Grosenick in nets. In the overtime, Couture scored for team white on the first shift. Donskoi and McNally scored for team teal to win the game 3-2.
Overtime triplets included: Nieto-Tierney-Burns vs Couture-Marleau-Vlasic. Thornton-Pavelski-Martin vs Smith-Goldobin-Braun. Wingels-Hertl-Tennyson vs DeMelo-Chartier-Langlois. Mueller-Donskoi-Lerg vs Couture-Ward-Dillon. Nieto-Meier-Ryan vs Stollery-Marleau-Couture. Roy-Pavelski-Thornton vs Vlasic-Chartier-Langlois. Wingels-McNally-? vs ?. Lerg-Hertl-Burns vs Smith-Goldobin-Marleau. (Bold are the goals scored)
Fun scrimmage. Lots of fans cheering the goals (and one not-goal). Lots of energy and some physicality.
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