The gap between the impressive rhetoric in San Jose and the team’s near total inaction over the summer is staggering. “We now become a tomorrow team,” general manager Doug Wilson told NHL.com in mid-June. He spoke of the team’s “reset/refresh” period ... (Continue reading)
Last season, one of the brightest points for the San Jose Sharks was the emergence of Tomas Hertl as a bona fide NHLer in his first year in North America. The team, however, needs more help, particularly if it wishes to ... (Continue reading)
San Jose Sharks general manager Doug Wilson has made no secret about what he plans to do with his hockey team: rebuild. “Everything that we do is based upon building a championship team,” he told the NHL Network in June. “And ... (Continue reading)
Over the last decade, almost no NHL team can say it has iced a legitimate Stanley Cup contender as regularly as the San Jose Sharks. Of the league’s other 29 member clubs, exactly one—the redoubtable Detroit Red Wings—can claim to ... (Continue reading)
There’s almost nothing more dependable in the NHL than a Todd McLellan power play. Since the Sharks head coach arrived in San Jose in time for the 2008-09 campaign, his team has consistently been at the top of the NHL in ... (Continue reading)