GDT: Game 27- Hurricanes @ Sharks - 7:30 PM PST

[TomasHertlsRooster]

Is anybody else super happy for Barclay Goodrow? He played most of the season in 2014-2015 and then spent pretty much all of the next two years in the AHL. He came up and looked great, made a few good plays on a few huge goals, and then got hurt. His injury wasn't serious but it definitely could have destroyed his momentum. Then he comes back and scores 2 goals in 2 games and makes it obvious that he is here to stay. I was listening on the radio, and I couldn't have been happier to hear the tying goal being from Goodrow.

 

[Mattb124]

Interesting game, horrid team defense in the 1st. I credit PDB for leaving Jones in the game.

To the unacquainted, you'd have thought Demelo was the veteran and Martin was the rookie. Demelo continues to improve and look like a 3rd pairing D-man who can defend and provide some offensive flair.

Funny that Braun is right there with Burns and Heed on a ppg basis.

Tierney has definitely hit a new level this year, hopefully he keeps it up - and makes me eat my words that he is not 2C material.

The first time I ever thought "DeBoer should be fired" was when he put Big Joe and Pavs out to start OT. Had a I verbalized it, I would have had to eat my words.

 

[Pavelski2112]

To the unacquainted, you'd have thought Demelo was the veteran and Martin was the rookie. Demelo continues to improve and look like a 3rd pairing D-man who can defend and provide some offensive flair.

DeMelo had a solid game. He was jumping up at the right times and was making good plays.

 

[BaileyMacTavish]

Oh no! The Triple post!

Idk if Tierney will be a 2C, but he's flourishing in the 3C role. And I hope Martin is just rusty, because Ryan took his spot next to Burns during the second and onwards and Ryan looked very very good

 

[Bizz]

unsung hero tonight was Joel Ward. Didn't show up on the scoresheet but he was a force out there tonight.

 

[Gene Parmesan]

That didn't look like rust. He just didn't look healthy. Wouldn't shock me if he got shutdown for the year.

 

[Alwalys]

I only realized today that demelo-ryan is 74-47

 

[BaileyMacTavish]

That didn't look like rust. He just didn't look healthy. Wouldn't shock me if he got shutdown for the year.

Might be the case. At least we get Dillon back next game. But then we have another problem of where is everyone gonna be playing? Only exacerbated once Heed comes back

 

[drunksage]

Not sure where else to leave this, but the premiere of Sharks Central was aired immediately following the TV postgame show. Great feature on Vlasic and his family, including his 3 dogs. Loved the naturally humorous bits that came up. (spoiler tag follows)

Spoiler

- Not surprisingly (given all the teaser clips about his pets), he'd love to run an animal refuge if he had to quit hockey.
- Also not surprisingly, he likes scoring but takes the most pride in shutting down top opposing players.
- His birthday is 3/30 and his two golden retrievers' birthdays are 3/29 and 3/31. They like to hang out in Willow Glen around that time.
- Bay Area weather is great, but Quebec is still where his heart is.
- His wife Martine cooks... for the dogs. The humans eat In-N-Out.
- He has a big desk. For checking e-mails. No computer at that desk.
- He has a life-size professional cardboard cutout of himself.
- He has a huge stack of NBC Sports "Authentic Fan" boxes, which is revealed to feature himself on the back.

 

[Mattb124]

That didn't look like rust. He just didn't look healthy. Wouldn't shock me if he got shutdown for the year.

That was my thought. He looked a bit broken w/ uncharacteristically poor plays.

It is looking like the optimal D is:

Vlasic - Braun
Ryan - Burns
Dillon - Heed

And Demelo is looking to push for a roster spot or might make for a decent trade chip being a righty. If Heed's offense hadn't been so good, it would be hard for me to justify sitting/trading him.

Curse our WiFi and the dreaded 3x post.

 

[Gene Parmesan]

All in all I haven't hated the Sharks game outside of T.B. I just wish they'd push the tempo more often like they did tonight.

 

[RickyHP]

this game made me see some positives for the year. Some of these young guys coming up are looking good. Ryan/Goodrow especially impress the hell out of me, heed included.

So glad to see thornton and burnzie changing their game.

They looked like the sharks tonight later on in the game, what a win what a game

 

[Mafoofoo]

This was a really fun game to watch. Woke up my roommates from cheering at that Burns goal though haha

 

[SactoShark]

I've been a bit out of touch lately, and I only saw the good half of this game, but I was extremely impressed with Braun. He didn't win the game, but the Sharks didn't lose because of a few subtle plays by him.

 

[Pavelski2112]

Jumbo again quietly (maybe not so much this game) racking up the points. 19 in 27 games so far. Leading the team in assists.

1410 points puts him in sole possession of 19th (nice) place all-time in points. 4 away from Doug Gilmour and 10 away from Adam Oates. 12 assists away from tying Mario Lemieux in assists all-time. Christ.

 

[DrFeelgood]

I've been a bit out of touch lately, and I only saw the good half of this game, but I was extremely impressed with Braun. He didn't win the game, but the Sharks didn't lose because of a few subtle plays by him.

There was a play early on where he looked like a pylon while someone flew right around him for a prime scoring chance, other than that I thought he had a pretty good game.

The Martin/Burns pairing during the first period of the game was a nightmare, Martin is beyond rusty and it was causing all kinds of problems. Great comeback though and i'm glad that Jones never got pulled like I saw some people online suggesting after the 3rd and 4th goals.

edit: Here's the play from Braun where he was a pylon and took a penalty

 

[OffSydes]

Went to the game, attendance is going to be a huge problem if they don't fix it.

 

[Bizz]

Went to the game, attendance is going to be a huge problem if they don't fix it.

you expected a sell out on a weekday game against a low tier eastern conference team?

 

[OffSydes]

you expected a sell out on a weekday game against a low tier eastern conference team?

Kinda like they did for years? It wasn't a few empty seats, entire empty rows

 

[Bizz]

And NBC Sports California ruins the sports enjoyment by playing the same commercials over and over and over again. Show the freaking Jurassic Park trailer or something. Just stop showing that ****ty Apple commercial or any of the other ****ty commercials.

I particularly can't stand that "What's a Computer?" iPad commercial. An iPad has memory, storage, a display, and uses an operating system to translate code into programs controlled by user input. That's literally the definition of a Computer, you snobby elitist brat. (the girl in the commercial, not you).

 

[Lebanezer]

Randy said this was the first time in franchise history the sharks ever came back from a 3 goal deficit after the first period. I guess he forgot about this gem.

 

[hockeyball]

Randy said this was the first time in franchise history the sharks ever came back from a 3 goal deficit after the first period. I guess he forgot about this gem.

I thought that sounded pretty unlikely.

 

[stator]

you expected a sell out on a weekday game against a low tier eastern conference team?

Went to the game, attendance is going to be a huge problem if they don't fix it.

I guess we've forgotten how it was like back in the peak attendance years. Where getting resold tickets was expensive to boot?

Hasso has a far different philosphy on ticket pricing and attendance than the Gund brothers. To get the peak profit from the supply/demand curve, some tickets are going to be unsold is likely Hasso's view.

 

[Juxtaposer]

Randy said this was the first time in franchise history the sharks ever came back from a 3 goal deficit after the first period. I guess he forgot about this gem.

I’m gonna guess it’s a “regular season” record.

 

[Lebanezer]

I’m gonna guess it’s a “regular season” record.

Probably, but they should bring up that game against LA every time they can.