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San Jose Sharks podcast with Mary Lisa: Sharks try to get in win column tonight against Avalanche at SAP Center

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Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Logan Thompson (right) puts the stop on the San Jose Sharks center Luke Kunin (left) in the first period at SAP Center in San Jose on Thu Oct 12, 2023 (AP News photo)

On the SJ Sharks podcast with Mary Lisa:

#1 The Vegas Golden Knights got a come back on the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night at SAP Center when the Knights Nic Hague and Nicolas Roy scored in the last two minutes of the second period and it was pretty much icing on the cake for the Knights in their three goal 4-1 win.

#2 Mary Lisa, this game was pretty dead even with Sharks and Knights tied at 1-1 until the second period when Hague and Roy scored just 53 seconds apart.

#3 The Knights Michael Amadio scored a goal and Brayden Pachal picked up his first NHL career goal as the Knights now have won their second straight game.

#4 The Sharks were expected by the oddsmakers to be struggling team and head coach David Quinn said that the Sharks are still trying to put a lot of things together. Quinn did point out that for 38 minutes it was a 1-1 tie and the Sharks kept up with the Knights.

#5 The Sharks now face the Colorado Avalanche tonight at SAP. The Aves rolled over the Los Angeles Kings in their last game 5-2. The Avalanche like the Knights have some offense. They got two goals from Mikko Rantanen and a goal each from Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, and Miles Wood. It’s the Avalanche and Sharks tonight in San Jose how do you see this match up.

Join Mary Lisa for the SJ Sharks podcasts Saturdays at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Sharks Drop Season Opener To Vegas Knights 4-1

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The San Jose Sharks right winger Filip Zadina (18) gets a first period pass off against the Vegas Golden Knights at SAP Center in San Jose on Thu Oct 12, 2023 (AP News photo)

Thursday, October 12th, 2023

By Troy Ewers

San Jose, CA – The season has officially started for the San Jose Sharks and they get the “luck of the draw” opening their season against the defending Stanley Cup champion the Vegas Golden Knights. The Knights opened their season beating a good Seattle Kraken team 4-1 with Marchessault and Eichel scoring a goal, Mark Stone locking in two assists, and goalie Adin Hill had 32 saves making their season opening, banner raising ceremony a sign of no slowing down for the Golden Knights.

In this packed Pacific division where the Oilers, Kings, and Kraken who all made the playoffs last season lost to kick off their campaigns to fellow foes in the division Vancouver, Vegas, and Calgary, the Sharks don’t want to get lost in this crowded sea.

San Jose may be in a rebuilding stage, but they still have things to look out for. William Eklund and Alexander Barabanov as possible leading scorers and new editions like Anthony Duclair. For this team, a challenge like the defending Stanley Cup is what they need to set the tone for this new season of teal hockey. 

The first period started with the William Eklund line with him, Mikael Granlund, and Luke Kunin against the Jack Eichel line with Jonathan Marchessault, and Ivan Barbashev and the tone of the game was set early when starting Sharks defenseman Kyle Burroughs dropped the gloves and fought Keegan Kolesar five minutes into the first period.

Even though Burroughs lost the fight the SAP Center was electric. The Eklund line already seems like a change of pace for San Jose in a great way. They are faster and generate an attack that keeps up with Vegas all period.

The Sharks went 0/2 on the power play, but the first score for either team came from Vegas after William Karlsson wrapped around the net, passed the puck to Michael Amadio, who one timed a shot past Kaapo Kahkonen and the score was 1-0 15 minutes into the first period (also assisted by Nicolas Hague).

Kahkonen was lights out except for the one goal, stopping every shot in his path, but the giveaways from San Jose kept Vegas in control possession wise. San Jose would tie this game up 18 minutes into the first period with a laser wrist shot from Filip Zadina (assisted by Henry Thrun and Tomas Hertl), 1-1.

The period would finally close, but Kahkonen still blocked two Vegas shots that seemed like go ahead goals, but no success and the horn went off and the Sharks went into first intermission tied with the defending champs and they walk away knowing that they dodged a bullet with Vegas not fully capitalizing on San Jose’s mistakes.

Second period and Sharks come out more physical with more shots on goal. The Anthony Duclair line with Bordeleau and Barabanov had great chances that actually had Vegas on their toes and the San Jose crowd hype like the game just started.

The Sharks got their first minor penalty after a Matt Benning tripping call, but they killed off the penalty and it seemed like this Sharks defense was locked in, but that changed. The period was flying by with both teams trading attacks, but Vegas broke the stalemate from a Nicolas Hague slapshot assisted by Pietrangelo and Eichel, 2-1 Vegas.

Not even a minute later Vegas scored again and it was by a different Nicolas this time, Nicolas Roy. assisted by his linemates Jonas Rondbjerg and Keegan Kolesar with 36 seconds left in the period, 3-1 Vegas.

The period ended and it felt like an accident happened in front of the crowd, because they were silent and unsure if their Sharks would come back. The confidence everyone had in Kahkonen was depleted, but there was still one more period and the Sharks weren’t ready to give up.

The final period was just a continuation of the second where the Knights continued the domination. Brayden Pachal scored off an assist by Karlsson and Pavel Dorofeyev making it 4-1 Knights. The Sharks attempted to generate some type of offense by sending shots at Logan Thompson, but the whole third period felt like a brick wall was built in the Knight’s net. The third ended with Vegas on top and another one in the win column for the Golden Knights. 

For the Sharks it’s going to be a long season, especially with their next game being against the Colorado Avalanche in San Jose this Saturday at SAP. The turnovers this game need to change if the Sharks want a chance at victories and the defensemen need to give Kahkonen a chance to actually stop shots like he did in the first period.

That’s Amaury News and Commentary: Sharks Los Tiburones Night Se Habla Español

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By Amaury Pi Gonzalez

Amaury Pi Gonzalez (Author) will be doing the play by play on NBC Sports Northern California at SAP Center on Los Tiburones Night on Sat Oct 14, 2023. When the San Jose Sharks host the Colorado Avalanche at SAP Center. (Image from nhl.com/sharks)

By Amaury Gonzalez

SAN JOSE–On Saturday, October 14, at 7 pm the San José Sharks will play their second game at home of the brand new 2023-24 season. The Sharks have gone through some changes in personnel, as this new season is expected to be a rebuilding season for the team that last year finished in penultimate place in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference with a 22-44 record.

One of the biggest news of the off season was when they traded veteran Erik Karlsson to the Pittsburgh Penguins in a three-team transaction that also involved the Montréal Canadiens.

That night, the Sharks will host their 7th Annual Los Tiburones Night at SAP center, when they play the Colorado Avalanche. Captain Logan Couture who missed the home opener against the Vegas Golden Knights, current champions of the Stanley Cup was not in action.

Couture has not recovered yet from problems in the lower back, but coach David Quinn seems to be optimistic, however right now it looks like Couture’s return could be a week-to-week situation. The Sharks should have better forwards this season and Sharks fans are excited to welcome the 2023-24 season in San José,

Los Tiburones Night will have a very Hispanic flavor. Sponsored by Milagro Tequila, everybody in attendance will receive a Luchador Goalie Mask on Los Tiburones Night presented by Milagro Tequila.

The colorful mask was designed by local artist Luis Guardado. This Hispanic Night will also include pregame music and the Star-Spangled Banner being performed by Mariachi Tequila de San José a local mariachi band.

On the concourse, arts and crafts with the Mexican Heritage Plaza and a specially designed mural backdrop located at the Hop Valley Bar above the South Entrance for fan photo opportunities. Intermission entertainment will include on-ice performances by the Grupo Folklórico Los Laureles.

¿Se Habla Español? Of course, you can catch all the exciting and fast paced action LIVE Play by play by yours truly by selecting the SAP function on NBC Sports California’s television game from SAP Center. The Sharks Audio Network is available presented by Western Digital.

Bienvenidos Amigos a la Noche de los Tiburones – Arriba Sharks!

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the play by play voice for the San Jose Sharks Spanish on NBC Sports California TV and the Sharks Audio Network by Western Digital

Sharks Beat Golden Knights 2-0 in Preseason Match Up

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San Jose Sharks forward Alexander Barabanov (94) congratulates defenseman Jacob MacDonald (24) after scoring at 12:09 in the second period against the Vegas Golden Knights at T Mobile Center in Las Vegas on Tue Oct 3, 2023 (AP News photo)

By Mary Walsh

The San Jose Sharks beat the Vegas Golden Knights 2-0 Tuesday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Thomas Bordeleau and Jacob MacDonald scored for the Sharks and Kaapo Kahkonen made 18 saves for the win. Vegas goaltender Adin Hill made 14 saves on 15 shots and Logan Thompson made 13 saves on 14 shots.

In a scoreless first period, the Sharks out-shot the Golden Knights 11-6. Each team took a penalty but neither power play scored.

At 6:51 of the second period, Thomas Bordeleau scored the first of the game with a snap shot. An assist went to William Eklund.

Defenseman Jacob MacDonald scored on the power play for the Sharks at 12:09. Assists went to Alexander Barabanov and Filip Zadina.

The second period shots were closer, 10-8 Sharks. Again, each team took a penalty but only the Sharks scored with the man advantage.

The third period saw several penalties, most of them from the Sharks forward Givani Smith. He took an interference penalty on Jakub Demek at 7:09. At 15:35, Brayden Pachal was called for slashing Smith, and Smith was called for high-sticking and roughing Pachal. Finally, Smith was given a misconduct. The Golden Knights took two more penalties to round out the period. The shot count was 8-4 Sharks, bringing the game tally to 29-18 Sharks.

The next Sharks preseason game will be on Thursday at 6:00 PM PT against the Kings in Los Angeles.

Sharks lose final home preseason game in overtime against the Kings 2-1

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Photo courtesy of San Jose Sharks.

By Titus Wilkinson (@TitusWisme)

SAN JOSE- The Sharks played a tight-checking affair against Los Angles but came up short losing 2-1.

Getting his first start during the preseason was Magnus Chrona who played last season in college. The Kings had veteran goalkeeper David Rittich who they got from Winnipeg get the start.

This game overall was pretty tightly played as neither team was able to score until the third period. The player who broke the ice was Alex Laferriere as he tipped home a shot from Jacob Moverare.

The third also saw Jacob Doty lay a big hit on Jan Rutta that got a response from Scott Sabourin who dropped the gloves for a spirited tilt. The hit was a little high so we’ll see if there is any suspension handed down from the league. Rutta did not return to the game after the hit.

Later in the third with the goalie pulled Thomas Hertl would tie it with a shot low on the blocker side of Rittich. The assists went to Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Mario Ferraro.

In overtime, the game-winner came from Samuel Fagemo on the power play as he one-timed a shot from the point to end it.

Special teams were of note tonight though mainly the penalty kill as the teams combined to go 1/11 with the extra man.

Chrona ended up looking solid in tonight’s game making 28 saves and both goals not being his fault.

The shots finished at 35-30 in favor of the Sharks.

The three stars of the game were 1st: Samuel Fagemo 2nd: Thomas Hertl 3rd: Magnus Chrona

The Sharks will look to bounce back on the road against the Golden Knights on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

San Jose Sharks podcast with Mary Walsh: Sharks host Kings tonight at SAP Center; Couture still hopeful for opening night

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Defenseman Nick Cicek (59) was off and playing some defense against the Anaheim Ducks last Wed Sep 27, 2023 at the Honda Center in Anaheim (@SanJoseSharks photo)

On the SJ Sharks podcast with Mary Lisa:

#1 The San Jose Sharks were beaten by the Anaheim Ducks 4-2 in their last pre-season game on Wednesday at the Honda Center in Anaheim. Pavel Mintyukov, Chase De Leo, Brett Leason and Brock McGinn scored for the Ducks. Lukas Dostal made 45 saves for the win.

#2 Justin Bailey and Nathan Todd scored their firsts of the preseason for the Sharks. Georgi Romanov made 22 saves in the loss.

#3 Bailey scored the first goal of the game at 9:36 of the first period. The goal came on the power play while Nathan Gaucher sat in the box for slashing Jacob MacDonald. Assists went to Danil Gushchin and Henry Thrun. It was Bailey’s first goal of the preseason.

#4 At 18:21, a bad hit by Alex Killorn on Filip Zadina spilled over into several penalties, including a 10 minute misconduct for Radko Gudas and a hi-sticking penalty for Matt Benning. Killorn was called for boarding. Zadina left the ice injured.

#5 Mary Lisa, Logan Couture is still hoping to get in the line up for opening night against the Vegas Golden Knight at SAP Center on Thu Oct 12th.

#6 The Sharks are at home tonight to host the Los Angeles Kings in pre season game #4. The Sharks after tonight’s game head to Las Vegas to face the Golden Knights for pre season game #5 on Tue Oct 3.

Join Mary Lisa for the Sharks podcasts each Saturday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Ducks Beat Sharks 4-2 in Preseason Rematch

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San Jose Sharks Justin Bailey (90) scored his first goal in pre season action against the Anaheim Ducks at the Honda Center in Anaheim on Wed Sep 27, 2023 (@SJSharks photo)

By Mary Walsh

The San Jose Sharks were beaten by the Anaheim Ducks 4-2 in a pre-season game on Wednesday at the Honda Center in Anaheim. Pavel Mintyukov, Chase De Leo, Brett Leason and Brock McGinn scored for the Ducks. Lukas Dostal made 45 saves for the win. Justin Bailey and Nathan Todd scored their firsts of the preseason for the Sharks. Georgi Romanov made 22 saves in the loss.

Justin Bailey scored the first goal of the game at 9:36 of the first period. The goal came on the power play while Nathan Gaucher sat in the box for slashing Jacob MacDonald. Assists went to Danil Gushchin and Henry Thrun. It was Bailey’s first goal of the preseason.

The Ducks came back at the end of the first with two quick goals. The first of these came from Pavel Mintyukov at 17:19. It was Mintyuokv’s first of the preseason. Adam Henrique got the assist.

The second Anaheim goal came from Chase De Leo at 18:07, his first of the preseason as well. Assists went to Nikita Nesterenko and Olen Zellweger.

The Sharks held a solid lead in shots for most of the first period but by the end it was close, 14-12 Sharks. The Ducks won 70.6% of the faceoffs and the Sharks had the only power play of the period. Brock McGinn was called for hooking Thomas Bordeleau at the end of the period, putting the Sharks on the power play to start the second.

The Sharks did not score on that power play. The only goal of the second period came from Brett Leason, at 8:16 of the period. Gaucher had an assist on Leason’s wrist shot.

The Sharks held a noteworthy lead in shots during the second, 17 to the Ducks’ 7.

Brock McGinn made it 4-1 just 23 seconds into the third period. Zack Kassian and Radko Gudas got the assists.

Nathan Todd cut the Ducks’ lead by one with a snap shot at 6:26. Assists went to Cole Cassels and Nikita Okhotiuk.

The game became distinctly more contentious after that. At 10:17, Tristan Robbins was called for goaltender interference, which led to matching roughing penalties for Robbins and Radko Gudas.

At 18:21, a bad hit by Alex Killorn on Filip Zadina spilled over into several penalties, including a 10 minute misconduct for Radko Gudas and a hi-sticking penalty for Matt Benning. Killorn was called for boarding. Zadina left the ice injured.

Sharks defenseman Radim Simek left the game after a collision in the first period.

The Sharks will play another preseason game at SAP San Jose against the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday at 7:00 PM PT.

San Jose Sharks podcast with Troy Ewers: Sharks try to rebound from loss, Face Ducks tonight in Anaheim

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The facial expression says it all as San Jose Sharks head coach David Quinn wasn’t impressed with the Sharks first period performance at SAP Center in San Jose on Tue Sep 26, 2023 (photo by Hockey Shots)

On SJ Sharks podcast with Troy Ewers:

#1 San Jose head coach David Quinn said after Tuesday night’s game against the Anaheim Ducks that he wasn’t too satisfied with the performance of how the Sharks came out trailing the Ducks in the first 13 minutes 3-0 in the first period.

#2 Among some of the players that he questioned or that are amongst them whose performance was in doubt William Eklund, Jacob Peterson, Oskar Lindblom, Leon Gawanke, and Nikolai Knyzhov. Tristen Robins and Nick Cicek.

#3 Quinn did mention he did like the handy work of goaltender MacKenzie Blackwood who stopped 21 of 24 shots.

#4 Troy, William Eklund scored a goal on Tuesday night against the Ducks talk about the goal and how you see him in pre season so far.

#5 The Sharks face off against the Ducks again tonight seeing what you saw last night what are some of the expectations that Coach Quinn will be expecting as opposed to falling behind 3-0 early.

Troy Ewers is a San Jose Sharks beat writer and does Sharks podcasts at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

San Jose Sharks podcast with Troy Ewers: Couture still a question mark for opening night on Oct 12

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San Jose Sharks center Logan Couture, left, confers with referee Gord Dwyer in the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Colorado Avalanche Tuesday, March 7, 2023, in Denver. (AP file photo)

On the SJ Sharks podcast with Troy:

#1 San Jose Sharks head coach David Quinn on center and team captain Logan Couture is still waiting how Couture’s lower body injury comes along. Quinn is of a cautious approach not to bring Couture not too fast but is hoping he could be ready by opening day.

#2 Right now Couture is week to week Quinn and the lower body injury has kept him from skating with the team so it’ll be a question as to how season ready he’ll be when he gets back on the ice again.

#3 Courture got hurt in the off season training and looks as if the injury built up gradually to the point he had discomfort skating. Couture has said that he hates sitting and wants to be skating with his teammates.

#4 Troy, talk about the need to have someone like Couture in the line on opening day especially if your opening up against a team like the Vegas Golden Knights who are the NHL champions.

#5 Coach Quinn said that he would love to have Couture ready to go but first and foremost he wants him to be healthy and ready before any of that could be considered.

Troy Ewers is a San Jose Sharks beat writer at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Ducks Stop Sharks Comeback 4-2; SJ at .500 in exhibition play at 1-1

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William Eklund center (72) center goes for a skating lap of congratulations from teammates. Eklund scored a goal against the Anaheim Ducks at SAP Center on Tue Sep 26, 2023 (Hockey Shots photo)

Tuesday, September 26th, 2023

By Troy Ewers

San Jose, CA – A preseason game between San Jose Sharks (1-1) and Anaheim Ducks (1-1) and the Sharks are coming off a victory over the Kings and now look to keep developing this roster as they approach the season opener against the defending champion Golden Knights. The Ducks won at SAP Center in San Jose with a two goal 4-2 win. Both teams are at .500 in exhibition play at 1-1.

The Ducks and Sharks started off the first period with a back and forth pace, but then the Ducks got on the board first with a wrist shot past Sharks goalie Mackenzie Blackwood by Anaheim’s Brett Leason (assisted by Sam Carrick and Jacob Perreault), 1-0 Ducks.

Anaheim quickly followed up that goal with another one, but this one off a wrist shot right off the blue line and this goal was scored by defenseman Olen Zellweger (assisted by Ilya Lyubushkin and Sam Carrick). 2-0 Ducks and the avalanche wouldn’t stop for Anaheim.

A goal for Andrew Agozzino assisted by Pavol Regenda and Olen Zellweger to put the Ducks up 3-0 and at this point the game still had seven minutes on the clock to go. When the first period came to an end, the biggest takeaway for the Sharks was that the offense created opportunities, especially the Eklund/Strum/Halttunen line, but the defense letting the Ducks capitalize on opportunities they created left the offense playing from behind and playing from behind early. 

The second period started with more intensity for the Sharks and more shots in less time. San Jose had half the shots they did in the first period and they did it before the period was halfway over. Playing a 4 on 3 powerplay William Eklund scored the first goal for the Sharks showing why he is one of the best young guys in the San Jose organization.

The goal was assisted by Kevin Lebanc and Shakir Mukhamadullin who has been showing a great display of passing in the first two periods. 3-1 being the score at this point in the second period. Penalties for Anaheim became a factor in the second period as they tallied up three within two minutes of each other and this gave San Jose some momentum to hopefully generate more offense.

Blackwood’s second period was a shutout, but a key point of this second period shoutout was the Sharks defense keeping Anaheim away from rebounding the missed shots. San Jose in both periods have accumulated six shots a period and compared to the Ducks’ 18 shots on goal, the Sharks seem to be still figuring out the system that they want to run, but it’s all coming together. 

The final period started with the Sharks attacking and the feeling in the arena was that there would be another goal for San Jose and almost four minutes into the third, that feeling was justified as Marc-Edouard Vlasic scored on a breakaway with an assist from Nico Sturm and now it was 3-2 with a lot of game still left.

The gap on shots was closing between San Jose and Anaheim and so was the score. The chances the Sharks were getting were better, but they weren’t resulting in on goal shots which results in goals. With six minutes left in the third, the Sharks showed that they do well screening the net, but when no shots are actually close to the net, then it’s just bodies in the way.

The biggest penalty for the Sharks came in this last period by Vlasic (4 minute minor) with two minutes and 20 seconds left, so San Jose was on a penalty kill to end the game. Anaheim gets a penalty with a minute left making it a 4 on 4 as the Sharks approach the close of the game and San Jose also pulled Blackwood to make it a 5 on 4 in the last minute. After missing two shots, the Ducks recover the puck in open ice with an empty net and score one last goal. 4-2 Ducks. 

The game comes to an end, both clubs will see each other Wednesday night in Anaheim for another preseason game. Face off 7:00pm PT at the Honda Center in Anaheim.