 | Greatest Roster Series: San Jose Sharks
The Sharks have a history of success in the regular season, but they are only just beginning to win in the playoffs.
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| Grading The Deal: Sharks Trade Heatley For Havlat
The financial savings and potential playoff boost in trading Dany Heatley for Martin Havlat is more than enough reason to like this deal for the Sharks.
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| Grading The Deal: Sharks Fill Void, Acquire Burns From Wild
When the Sharks were eliminated by the Canucks in the playoffs this past season it was quite evident that their blueline was severely lacking top-end talent outside of an aging Dan Boyle.
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| Grading The Deal: Thornton Signs Three-Year Extension With Sharks
While it seems like signing core players to ?lifetime? contracts is the modus operandi for many GMs in the salary cap era, San Jose?s Doug Wilson has done a remarkable job locking up his core members without handcuffing himself.
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| Grading The Deal: Sharks Sign Cup Winner Niemi
After years of early playoff exits and expectations not being met, the Sharks hope they have found the cure for what has ailed them: a clutch playoff goaltender by the name of Antti Niemi.
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| Behind San Jose's Absurdly Dominant Start
Great teams in hockey typically go through a season with one streak at a time. What is unique about the Sharks is that they have not gone two consecutive games without at least one point.
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| Sharks Rally Around Roenick
One way or another, Jeremy Roenick finds a way to be in the spotlight. On Tuesday night the veteran center played as if he were ten years younger, scoring two goals and adding two assists in the Sharks series clinching game seven win over the Calgary Flames.
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| Sharks On A Roll
Like the NHL's two other best teams - the Red Wings and the Devils - San Jose is winning with stellar goaltending and overall defense.
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| Grading The Deal: Can Campbell Put San Jose Over The Top?
The Sharks needed something, and Brian Campbell is a good something. He is a very talented defenseman who, with Evgeni Nabokov, will make the Sharks very tough to score on.
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