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Injury Report: Pre-season injuries (that may impact season start)

Coily

Coily

Gettin' Jiggy with it
Oct 8, 2008
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The fact he's skating is good. Of course he's probably bummed, I wouldn't write him off yet.
 
hockeyball

hockeyball

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Nov 10, 2007
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Arrch said:
Is there any indication that Boyle will be back? The last update I saw was that he was still sick.
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Unless Boyle is still actively puking my bet is he plays, especially after what he had to watch last night. Heck I wouldn't be surprised if he skated around with a bucket, guy is a wariror lol.
 

sharks51

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Jan 12, 2011
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When Demers and Burns are both healthy i think the Sharks should dress 7 D. I used to hate it when Mclellan did it but I could support the idea if it meant Burns using his size and skill up front instead of vandermeer skating around cluelessly. It would add some versatility and we could bench some of our slacking bottom 6 instead of Matt Irwin.

Marleau Thornton Pavelski
Clowe Couture Burns
Gomez Handzus Havlat
Burish Desjardin Galiardi

Vlasic Stuart
Irwin Boyle
Braun Demers
 
SharksFan1

SharksFan1

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Aug 9, 2010
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sharks51 said:
When Demers and Burns are both healthy i think the Sharks should dress 7 D. I used to hate it when Mclellan did it but I could support the idea if it meant Burns using his size and skill up front instead of vandermeer skating around cluelessly. It would add some versatility and we could bench some of our slacking bottom 6 instead of Matt Irwin.

Marleau Thornton Pavelski
Clowe Couture Burns
Gomez Handzus Havlat
Burish Desjardin Galiardi

Vlasic Stuart
Irwin Boyle
Braun Demers
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Interesting. Well he use to be a forward. I don't think they should put him on the 2nd line though. Maybe 3rd/4th line and D for the PP.

Although I think he would be better off just play D the whole time.
 
SharksFan1

SharksFan1

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sharks51 said:
When Demers and Burns are both healthy i think the Sharks should dress 7 D. I used to hate it when Mclellan did it but I could support the idea if it meant Burns using his size and skill up front instead of vandermeer skating around cluelessly. It would add some versatility and we could bench some of our slacking bottom 6 instead of Matt Irwin.

Marleau Thornton Pavelski
Clowe Couture Burns
Gomez Handzus Havlat
Burish Desjardin Galiardi

Vlasic Stuart
Irwin Boyle
Braun Demers
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So scratch Murray? Don't think they will do that. Irwin will be the odd man out.
 
KirbyDots

KirbyDots

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TheJuxtaposer said:
Because we're bottom-5 in Fenwick Close and our winning is due almost entirely to an unsustainable shooting percentage on the top line and Niemi playing out of his mind?
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And though the shooting percentage is unsustainable the team is playing better as a whole, particularly on the PK. Tanking would be foolish and DW has said he will always try to win every year, anything less would be insulting to the fans. I'm cautiously optimistic that we'll continue the high level of play, especially given the significant adversity some of our competition seem to have faced. I think this Sharks team stacks up well against most teams in the west other than the Blues whose style of play negates our puck possession style.
 
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WTFetus

WTFetus

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Mar 12, 2009
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TheJuxtaposer said:
Because we're bottom-5 in Fenwick Close and our winning is due almost entirely to an unsustainable shooting percentage on the top line and Niemi playing out of his mind?
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When did this board become so into advanced stats? I mean, I appreciate the stats, but when the Sharks are winning, we should just sit back and enjoy it while it lasts.
Just last season, Les Wynan was shunned by practically everyone here for being so stat-crazy. Now that he's gone, more and more people are repeating his arguments. Poor guy. :laugh:
 
KirbyDots

KirbyDots

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WTFetus said:
When did this board become so into advanced stats? I mean, I appreciate the stats, but when the Sharks are winning, we should just sit back and enjoy it while it lasts.
Just last season, Les Wynan was shunned by practically everyone here for being so stat-crazy. Now that he's gone, more and more people are repeating his arguments. Poor guy. :laugh:
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Haha agreed!
 
sr228

sr228

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Sep 16, 2007
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KirbyDots said:
We're now number 7 in Fenwick Close if I'm reading this chart correctly.
http://behindthenet.ca/fenwick_2011.php?sort=6&section=close

And though the shooting percentage is unsustainable the team is playing better as a whole, particularly on the PK. Tanking would be foolish and DW has said he will always try to win every year, anything less would be insulting to the fans. I'm cautiously optimistic that we'll continue the high level of play, especially given the significant adversity some of our competition seem to have faced. I think this Sharks team stacks up well against most teams in the west other than the Blues whose style of play negates our puck possession style.
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Those are the numbers from last season. They're 24th so far this year. The Sharks have historically been an excellent puck possession team and I see no reason why they won't get back to that.

Problem is, this season the score hasn't been "close" in games for very long and it skews the numbers. It's something to watch but in my opinion, it's nothing to worry about right now.

Also - I agree with you about this Sharks team, that it has what it takes to win and the fact that DW won't tank.
 
KirbyDots

KirbyDots

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stalockrox said:
Those are the numbers from last season. They're 24th so far this year. The Sharks have historically been an excellent puck possession team and I see no reason why they won't get back to that.

Problem is, this season the score hasn't been "close" in games for very long and it skews the numbers. It's something to watch but in my opinion, it's nothing to worry about right now.
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Didn't catch that will edit.
 
Pinkfloyd

Pinkfloyd

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TheJuxtaposer said:
Because we're bottom-5 in Fenwick Close and our winning is due almost entirely to an unsustainable shooting percentage on the top line and Niemi playing out of his mind?
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We're also six games into a 48 game season. Sustainability is not as much of a necessity at this stage. They're a good team finding ways to win and it needs to continue as much as it can so they can get into the playoffs. Missing two of their best puck-moving d-men the whole year and last night their best three is going to have an impact on Fenwick.
 
Juxtaposer

Juxtaposer

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Dec 21, 2009
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Sorry to put a damper on things, but I'm a huge proponent of advanced stats. :laugh:

Obviously not having Burns changes things and it's a small sample size, but it's not like we've been dominating everyone (with the exception of Colorado, and Colorado blows).

HellasLEAF said:
Burns skating? Good sign. Any more details on him??
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You have two options: 1) Read the thread, or 2) go to the stickied "The "How is _____ doing, I have him on my fantasy team" thread (ALL Fantasy Qs here)" thread. We're not responding to fantasy questions in here.
 
HellasLEAF

HellasLEAF

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apologies there just has been so little released about Burns it's hard to know what's going on or why, such a mystery. I will post in there from now on.
 
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