GDT: Game 37: Sharks @ Avs 5:00pm NBCSCA

[Alaskanice]

Happy New Year Sharks fans.

 

[Tw1ster]

Offensively bad offence. Defence looked quite a bit more competent than it has recently ( no Ferraro and Burroughs, coincidence?)


Happy New Year everyone. One year closer to being decent again

 

[fasterthanlight]

another 2 points, keeping pace with tankcago

 

[TheBeard]

Did we win?

 

[bluefunnel]

Did we win?

We won't really know until early May.

 

[Tw1ster]

another 2 points, keeping pace with tankcago

Just need a sex scandal under our belts and maybe the NHL will make sure the draft goes in our favor

 

[Barrie22]

Just need a sex scandal under our belts and maybe the NHL will make sure the draft goes in our favor

Nah we aren't a darling original 6 team. The hawks get rewarded for being bad on and off the ice. The league would ban the Sharks from having a 1st round pick for 10 years if that happened to us.

 

[TheBigDrunkPanda]

Poor Tanko, if he could play like that for a better team he could be the next Hill

 

[timorous me]

Happy New Year, Sharks fans. Hell of a way to ring in the new year when you're on the east coast!

Just have to say, I really am happy the Sharks have Emberson and Thrun. Two guys basically out of nothing from this time last year. Thrun is far from the finished product and I understand some of the criticism he's gotten, but I don't know how anyone could watch that game tonight and think this isn't a guy who will be on an NHL blue line for many years to come in a regular role, even if it's a 3rd pairing guy. He's growing and developing and it's great to see his progress.

 

[karltonian]

Missed this entire game
And nothing of value was lost!
Happy Top 3 Pick Draft Year, fellow sufferers

 

[Anomie2029]

Hope Ferraro is ok, but I’ll be happy to have him away from the team for a while. He is simply awful

 

[tahoesharksfan]

Two questions:

1) What happened to Sturm?
2) WTF with Barbie? He's been one of our top contributors and he's been demoted to the fourth line? I've just about lost all faith in Quinn.

It's getting really hard to stick with this team this season...

 

[sharks_dynasty]

Two questions:

1) What happened to Sturm?
2) WTF with Barbie? He's been one of our top contributors and he's been demoted to the fourth line? I've just about lost all faith in Quinn.

It's getting really hard to stick with this team this season...

Sturm is injured and Barbs is sucking this year. We should have traded him last year.

 

[Anomie2029]

Two questions:

1) What happened to Sturm?
2) WTF with Barbie? He's been one of our top contributors and he's been demoted to the fourth line? I've just about lost all faith in Quinn.

It's getting really hard to stick with this team this season...

1) Sturm had surgery on an injury, I don’t think there is a time line for his return.

2) Barbie hasn’t looked good since coming back from injury. He’s always been a supporting player who needed linemates to drive play. Being on a line with Studnika and Kunin, who are both possession voids, was never going to work.

 

[timorous me]

Sturm is injured and Barbs is sucking this year. We should have traded him last year.

Barbie certainly hasn't been able to find his groove this year with his injuries. Seems like he's been a step behind the pace and Eklund has been quite good on Hertl's wing this past month or so--and while that's where Barbie's always been best, I don't think you'd want him and Eklund both on that line (I think they tried it for a bit but it wasn't working) and that spot definitely seems to be the best place for Eklund's development.

Couture returning (hopefully) soon could be the best thing for Barbie, though of course Cooch is also going to be rusty and we'll see how he is physically. Obviously trading Barbie a year ago looks like it would've been the right move but if the offers sucked, well, it's not like this outcome for this season would've been expected.

 

[stator]

Glorious loss.

Continue to march towards the best lottery odds.

 

[Jts4thgoal]

Barbie has always been a complementary player so when you put him with garbage, he looks like garbage.