Comments on: How many more starts should Niemi get?

By: lostpuppysyndrome

lostpuppysyndrome — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:41:53 +0000

Pretty sure they blew it by throwing Seto and Coyle to the Wild. Here’s to hoping Charlie and Granlund make it up next year. The Wild have a bright future ahead of them.

By: letsgosjsharks

letsgosjsharks — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:44:19 +0000

Im gonna laugh at ALL of you when they comeback and win the cup! Dont lose hope u fair weather fans

By: AlohaMrHand

AlohaMrHand — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:20:05 +0000

the Sharks look defeated.They aren’t going to the playoffs and it might be time to get rid of some of the liabilities on this team.(I’m looking at YOU Thornton)

By: gbiscottagecheesefatties

gbiscottagecheesefatties — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:20:33 +0000

I feel bad for you guys because you had great talent, just the wrong talent…. if that makes any sense. Thornton is the problem weather people want to admit it or not.

Sharks fans are great and that’s tough due to their location (kids don’t play hockey compared to baseball or football) and it’s fair to say the success of this team over the last 10 years helped grow the popularity…

As a Wild fan I think the trade for Burns ruined the long term success for the Sharks. Setoguchi isn’t a prized player to have but can be a good asset on a good team but losing their first and Coyle (Coyle is a beast) REALLY hurts this team. Burns is a good player but far from game changing like some think. He gives up two chances for everyone he creates. I love Burns but speaking the truth.

again, good luck and I feel for ya!

By: finfan88shark

finfan88shark — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:08:38 +0000

It is not the lack of grit, it is the lack of vision by the GM, and coaching by the coach. It is a system that encourages players to shoot from anywhere, and hope like hell the shots go in. When you take 40 shots but 25 are from bad angles or parameter shots your just fooling yourselves.

I do agree with your basic premise however. I still do not see how a GM would trade away two 30 goal scorers and replace them with a guy who is always hurt and a bad defense man, and think your team is better. And heck lets throw in our only legitimate forward prospect and a draft pick as well. And then trade away a draft pick you got in the trade for a bum such as Dominik Moore. Really the problems with this team are exactly as gbiscottagecheesefatties described. And they begin and end with the GM, who acquired the players and hired the coach.

By: finfan88shark

finfan88shark — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:03:28 +0000

As a person who has held season Sharks season tickets off and on for 15 years, and as a fan who is soon to be an ex-season ticket holder. Cottagecheesefatties is right on with his evaluation of the situation in San Jose.

The Sharks have absolutely no prospects, few draft choices and unless they make a couple of smart moves in free agency and in trades they have little future for a long time.

Unfortunately, nobody in the San Jose Media market knows anything about hockey, and they just fall in lock stock and barrel with the Sharks high powered PR team. We have a “Insider” who actually thought that Doug Wilson made great moves in the off-season and in-season. And we have a beat writer who stated in the pre-season that “This is the best Sharks team ever”. The only media guy who ever talked bad about the Sharks was a guy from Hockey Buzz named Ryan Garner. Garner tried too tell people the last two years what was going on but he was blasted by fans, and then banned by the big bad Sharks organization because he was “too negative.”

By: vismund11

vismund11 — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:01:12 +0000

Who cares aboutthis story? Where’s the post about Bryz getting another shutout and owning Phil Kessel all night, and Claude GIroux absolutely stealing Gustavsonn’s soul?

By: gbiscottagecheesefatties

gbiscottagecheesefatties — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:59:24 +0000

the problem is their choices in trades and trading the future away thinking this was a contending team….. NOPE.

this team is going to be terrible very soon. They have zero prospects and everyone is getting old except Logan. Good luck Shark fans, rebuild in three years

By: xxakshunxx

xxakshunxx — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:03:20 +0000

When you watch the sharks you can see Niemi isn’t the clear problem.. He’s never going to be a top 5 goaltender in the league but he’s good enough to win.. The problem is the offense and the lack of grit and hustle on this team.. They expect to just coast into the playoffs and aren’t playing like they deserve it