Sharks/Barracuda news for week ending 150912

Highlights: Previews and anticipation. THN ranks Barracuda logo. Pavelski is in Toronto for NHL media tour (check twitter for updates). Some suggestions for Sharks captaincy. Nabokov returns to organization. Heritage jersey unveiled.  Prospect injury. Prospects traveling to SJ for training camp. And some speculation on the rosters for next year’s NHL/NHLPA World Cup (including a Shark or two). Barracuda announce radio agreement (all games broadcast; 51 on radio; all online); games will also be streamed on AHLLive.com (paid); some may be on local TV.

SJ Sharks

SJ Mercury News

CSN Sharks

Gackle Report

CBS Sacramento

AP/CP

TSN.ca

Yahoo Sports/Puck Daddy

ESPN

NHL.com

On the Forecheck: NHL Division Primer: The Pacific

IIHF: NHL, NHLPA, IIHF launch World Cup
Details of the schedule, groups, etc.

Players’ Tribune: Born in the USA
Interview with siblings Tony and Cammi Granato. (Tony is Sharks alum)

THW: Andrew Desjardins: From Mexican Border to Stanley Cup

Vancouver Times-Colonist: Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour to make February stop in Victoria
Part of 2/28/16 Sharks @ Canucks game coverage

NJ.com: Devils’ Ryan Clowe not officially retiring, but career over due to concussions
Former Shark, fan favorite

NBC/PHT

The Hockey News

SJ Barracuda

Sportsnet.ca

Kelowna Daily Courier: Pre-NHL camp update
Chartier expected to return to WHL after camp

Kelowna Now: A Dozen Rockets Off To NHL Training Camps
Chartier

Western College Hockey Blog: Injured Robinson sidelined until January
3rd round pick out with broken wrist

Spokane Chiefs: THREE CHIEFS LOOK TO IMPRESS AT NHL CAMPS
Adam Helewka

Oregon Live: Nine Winterhawks will participate in NHL training camps
Alex Schoenborn

Hamilton Spectator: Four Bulldogs off to NHL rookie camps
Invitee Stephen Harper

Sharks/Barracuda news for week ending 150905

Highlights: SAP Center hosting NBA preseason game with Sharks-themed bobblehead giveaway.  And a list of many of the promotions to happen for the 25th Anniversary season. Prospect Helewka considering options (WHL overage with possible trade, NHL, AHL). Prospect Lablanc has similar considerations (OHL OA, etc.). ESPN’s LeBrun argues for Thornton’s (future) induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame.  A cool look at off season training regimens. Barracuda Bytes weekly update.

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SJ Mercury News

CSN Sharks

CBS Sacramento:

NHL.com

Hockey’s Future: Top 20 San Jose Sharks prospects embody hunger for success

ESPN

The Hockey News

USA Today

SJ Barracuda

Slam Hockey: NHL off-season training regimen not exactly how it appears

Puck Daddy: Hockey wives find ‘Hero’ as authors of children’s book
Wife of former Shark Matt Carkner and her sister write books

Spokesman-Review: Chiefs’ Helewka plays wait-and-see game

Barrie Examiner: Barrie looks to make another long run this season; 18 players returning
Lablanc could return to OHL as overager, or sign with Sharks.

Ottawa Sun: 67’s eager to start pre-season
Including Sharks rookie camp invitee G Liam Herbst

Kelowna Daily Courier: Rockets’ Chartier faces challenge of repeating last season’s success

Waterloo: USHL hockey: 29 to report to camp for Black Hawks
Including Sharks draftee Cukste (one of six imports at camp; team can have 3 on roster)

Saginaw/MLive

Sharks/Barracuda news for week ending 150829

Highlights: Sharks sign McLaren, announce hiring of Spott as assistant coach. Former Shark Garpenlov named assistant coach for Team Sweden, World Cup of Hockey. Former Shark Rissmiller named NJD development coach. AHL and Barracuda schedule releasing Thursday morning (10am PT). NBC Sports/PHT season preview. And a few other articles of interest.

(The Puck Daddy Sharks A-Z article was so filled with errata, I refuse to link it.)

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SJ Mercury News

CSN Sharks

NBC Sports

SportsNet

Waterloo Record: Spott reunites with DeBoer with San Jose Sharks
Very nice feature article

SportsXchange: Sharks name ex-Leafs coach Steve Spott an assistant

USA Today: NHL Western Conference: Why your favorite team won’t win the Stanley Cup

IIHF: Gronberg to coach Sweden
Former Shark Johan Garpenlov named one of assistant coaches

New Jersey Devils: Patrick Rissmiller named development coach
Former Shark.  Congrats.

Halifax Mooseheads: SHARKS CAMP ON THE HORIZON FOR MEIER
Video

Puck Daddy/Yahoo Sports: Pacific Division: Still the worst in the NHL? (Trending Topics)

Toronto Star: Steve Spott using tough year with Leafs as learning experience

OHL: DeBoer and Spott reunited in San Jose

SJ Barracuda

Sharks news for week ending 150822

Highlights: digging out some camp TO names.  Martin Jones mask is complete. And a couple of PSAs with former Shark Curtis Brown and Sharkie. Barracuda sign two players.  Robinson looking forward to not being a road warrior for the first time in 46 years; and recovering from skin cancer scare. And the Sharks are asking their season ticket holders to select a new goal song.

A number of apparent camp invitees are listed on the Sharks NHL.com roster, including Stephen Harper (no, not the Canadian Prime Minister), Danny Federico, Cavan Fitzgerald, Liam Herbst and Rick Pinkston.  (Joey Ratelle was also rumored back in June he was an invitee, but is not on that list…. yet.) Update – Pinkston signed by Barracuda.

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  • Safety Equipment
  • Making a smoothie

SJ Barracuda

SJ Mercury News

Montreal Gazette

New Britain Herald: NHL stars to play scrimage in Newington on Friday
Including the Sharks’ Ben Smith

TSN: Raffi Torres skating in pre-camp tournament
Along with other NHLers

Sharks news for week ending 150815

Highlights: NHL.com Sharks preview. Sharks preseason tickets on sale. Who is the Sharks most important player? Barracuda (and AHL) schedule coming out in about two weeks. Meier preparing for season at Halifax camp. ESPN’s Buccigross updates the Sharks “Mt Rushmore”.

NHL: San Jose Sharks Day

Sports Illustrated: NHL’s worst gut-punch losses: Sharks, Hurricanes and Wild
One more time, the Sharks crazy loss against the Kings 16 months ago

SJ Sharks

ESPN

SJ Barracuda: 8/12 Barracuda Bytes

Fox Sports: Coming season could be a defining one for Sharks’ Nieto

Metronews.ca: Halifax Mooseheads or San Jose Sharks, Timo Meier ready to give it his ‘best’

Sportsnet.ca: Off season rankings
Based on off season moves. Sharks at #10

Too Many Men on the Site: Ranking the Pacific Division (Sharks)

NBC/PHT: What went wrong: 2014-15 San Jose Sharks

Sharks news for week ending 150808

Highlights: Dell signed (officially). Sharks Fest (with rookie games) announced for 9/12.

Sharks re-sign G Aaron Dell to one year deal
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| NBC

NWHL: Former NHL Forward Chad Wiseman to Coach Riveters

CSN Sharks: Sharks mailbag: Do Ward, Martin improve culture?

SJ Sharks: Video of Martin Jones’ mask being painted

SJ Barracuda: 8/5 Barracuda Bytes

CP: Canada’s next generation of world junior stars taking nothing for granted

Along the Boards: Can Peter DeBoer bring a Stanley Cup to San Jose?

SJ Sharks: Sharks Host Pair of Rookie Games vs. Ducks Sept. 12 & 13
And Shark Fest

Appears as the Sharks three pre-season games against the Canucks will be televised (and likely on NHL Network in US).

CSN Washington: Sharks preview

Stouffville Sun Times: NHLers past, present skating in Hockey Night in Stouffville
Including Chris Tierney and Sharks alum Bernie Nicholls. Event is 8/20.

Sharks news for week ending 150801

Highlights: a few scheduling notes. Couture reiterates that Sharks will return to playoffs.

NHL announces NBC/SN schedule for 2015-16. Sharks are scheduled to be on NBCSN 11 times (unclear if any are exclusive national games, or pick up of CSNCA coverage).
SJSharks | CSN Sharks

San Jose Barracuda announce two preseason games (10/1 at Sharks Ice; 10/3 in Bakersfield)

Sportsnet: Sharks’ Logan Couture: ‘We’ll make the playoffs’

CSN Sharks: Sharks still have plans to add to DeBoer’s staff

CBS: Pacific division off season grades

Puck Daddy: Matt Nieto succumbs to Dark Side with custom Star Wars figurine

Sharks news for week ending 150725

Highlights: Peter DeBoer on local radio talking captaincy, OT format. Couture believes that the Sharks will be back in the playoffs (THN).

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95.7 The Game: Peter DeBoer with Brodie Brazil (podcast)
Confirms that the Sharks will have a captain, and he’s liking the 3-on-3 OT format

SJ Merc – WTC: DeBoer reiterates that the Sharks will have a captain this season

CSN Sharks

NHL

THN

ESPN: Five teams poised for return to postseason
Including the “train wreck” Sharks

Greatest Hockey Legends looks at the career of now-retired Wayne Thomas

Boston Herald: Harris: Big winners from NHL offseason
Including the Sharks

Yahoo/Puck Daddy

Sharks news through 150718 and signings

A relatively quiet week.  The Barracuda sign Trevor Parkes.

RFA Daniil Tarasov defects (from NHL) and signs with KHL Dynamo.
SJMerc | CSN Sharks | THN

Former Shark Adam Burish, bought out, defiantly declares he’ll get a new NHL deal

CSN Sharks: DeBoer committed to playing Burns on Sharks’ blue line

SJMerc – WTC: Healthy again, Gabryel Boudreau aims to earn pro contract in the fall
Sharks draftee went unsigned and undrafted in return to draft after losing most of season to injury.

SJ Merc: Purdy: Have Sharks’ offseason moves made them a playoff team?
I’ll respond to this in a separate post.

Hockey’s Future: 2015 NHL Draft: San Jose Sharks draft review

Sharks/Barracuda news for week of 150621 (predraft)

Highlights: Salary cap set at $71.4m. Mock drafts galore. New contract for Dillon in the works. Schedule released; Sharks open on the road in LA, home opener against Anaheim. Brent Burns wins NHL Foundation Award.

For draft picks and stats of new picks, check out the 2015 draft page.

SJ Sharks draft preview

Mock Drafts

Sharks pre-draft news/trade/re-signing speculation

NHLPA: players talk about Vegas experience in advance of NHL Awards

6/21: Friedman’s 30 Thoughts
Lots of trade speculation

Former Shark Mathieu Darche (and brother) to be inducted into McGill Sports Hall of Fame – Montreal Gazette

Bay Today

6/23 – NHL: Salary Cap set at $71.4m

6/23: Puck Daddy (Cooper) – Can the San Jose Sharks trade their way out of rebuild mode this week?

6/23: Puck Daddy (Lambert) – How will Sharks GM Doug Wilson try to save his job now?

6/23: Agent indicates Sharks are working on new deal for Dillon
PHT | SJ Merc | CSN Sharks

6/22: Gackle Report – Will The Sharks Top Defensemen See More Ice Time Next Season?
Following the trends of the Stanley Cup winning team?

6/22: CSN Sharks – What went wrong: 2014-15 San Jose Sharks

6/23: NHL – Sharks’ Burns waits for moves, excited about DeBoer

6/24: SJSharks – Sharks Open Home Schedule Against Ducks
And season opener on the road against Kings
SJ Merc | CSN Sharks

6/24: NHL – Sharks’ Burns receives NHL Foundation Player Award
SJ Merc | SJ Sharks | Red carpet interview | Winning award

6/25: SJSharks – Sharks 2015-16 Regular Season Schedule Announced
CSN Sharks | SJ Merc | SF Chron | Gilroy Dispatch

6/25: Upper Michigan Source – Petan, Watson to be MTU Hockey Captains
Sharks draftee Cliff Watson one of the two co-captains for upcoming season

6/24: SF Chron – Sharks’ draft spot represents critical rebuilding moment

6/25: Times Colonist – Kraft Hockeyville game to Q Centre in Colwood BC

CSN Sharks