by Larry Leavitt

DALY CITY–The Alaska Aces have a lot of speed and they brought it to the Cow Palace and the best part of hockey is watching the team speed, they have a lot of speed and have very good passing and their back playing the San Francisco Bulls for three games this weekend. The interesting thing about it is seeing the Aces right winter Peter Sivak a former Bulls player back playing against his former team.

Sivak is a very skilled player and Bulls head coach Pat Curcio is wondering why Sivak didn’t get resigned again because he definitely is a playmaker. The Bulls who have been involved in two one goal games losing Friday 3-2 and winning on Saturday 6-5 are focused on playing more of a stable game, their not an ebb and flow peak high. The Bulls are very stable.

Alaska outskated them and the Bulls hung in there and hanging in will get you opportunities and you never know what happens. The interesting thing about the game on Saturday night was the 6-5 victory for San Francisco and they set a team record scoring four goals in 1:31 all unanswered. The Aces took the lead 3-0 all in the first period, the Aces came out and scored a goal in 18 seconds in the first period.

The Bulls looked down and out but in the second period before you know it if you went to get a beverage or two and came back to your seat it was 3-3 and they caught fire. You can’t count a team out when they finally get pucks to the net. They’re going to rebound or they’re going to be putting them back in, the Aces gave up the fifth goal to tie it up 5-5 for the Bulls and went into overtime as the Bulls won it 6-5.

San Jose Sharks update: The Sharks are coming off a very good game against the Detroit Red Wings they played exceptionally well against the Detroit Red Wings last Thursday in a 4-1 win. The Wings are a very tough team and this was a game that the Sharks can get help from the fourth line and the Sharks center Andrew Desjardins made a beautiful play off the boards shot towards the net and scored at 9:44 of the second period to put the Sharks on top 2-1.

The Sharks Joe Pavelski scored two goals in that game for numbers 20 and 21 of the season and the power play worked for the Sharks as Dan Boyle who scored at 16:28 in the second period for the Sharks fourth and final goal of the night. Looking at the positive side for the Sharks they had up to five forwards that were out at one time between the surgeries of Brett Burns, Raffi Torres with a lower body injury, Tyler Kennedy is out and Tommy Wingels was out he energized that team and gave the Sharks something that they were missing when they were in Colorado last week.

The Sharks now prepare for the road trip in Washington, Florida and Tampa Bay and it just seemed like they were back east with Chicago and Colorado last week and then they flew home and they fly all the way east again. The Sharks need to get better on the road, they’re taking over the switch in the Pacific but Anaheim is doing a decent job but it’s not sure that they could hold on for the entire season.

Larry Leavitt does commentary weekly on Pro Hockey for Sportstalk Radio