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Sharks' star Logan Couture is leading a young leadership core taking ownership on and off the ice, an evolution of the team that's happening before everyone's eyes this season, Pierre LeBrun writes.

Making sure your top lines don't get too much ice time will be key during this shortened season, writes Pierre LeBrun.

Patrick Marleau's earth-on-fire start to the NHL season has provided many over the past few days the chance to reconsider the forward's place in this league. For a player who has done as much as he has in this sport, he certainly over the years ha...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The possibility of a 3-1 series deficit speaks for itself as to the motivation for the San Jose Sharks in Game 4 on Thursday night. The Blues-Sharks first-round series has reached its first critical moment. "We've got to win...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- If the forward lines hold true from Wednesday's practice, the San Jose Sharks could look more than a little different for Game 4: Couture-Thornton-Pavelski Clowe-Marleau-Havlat Winnik-Handzus-Mitchell Winchester-Desjardins-...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- It is hard to say what generated more questions in both dressing rooms after the game: Ben Eager's hit on Daniel Sedin or Patrick Marleau's decision to fight Kevin Bieksa. Let's start with Eager who nailed Sedin into...

The Sharks advanced to the West finals after delivering one of the biggest clutch performances in the franchise's history.

DETROIT -- Patrick Marleau is not gutless, but he is pointless. Perhaps lost in TV analyst Jeremy Roenick's tweet heard 'round the hockey world (and in the ensuing cyberspace fallout) is that the veteran San Jose Sharks forward is indeed strugglin...

This will be a hard-fought battle between two Cup contenders, but Pierre LeBrun believes Detroit will edge San Jose in the end.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The Sharks' top line of Patrick Marleau, Joe Thornton and Devin Setoguchi was held off the score sheet for a second straight game Saturday night. "Yeah, we got to get a bit more offensive time," Marleau said after the game. "W...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Kyle Wellwood's smile midway through his answer said it all. "It's been a real nice transition for me from Russia to San Jose," Wellwood told ESPN.com on Wednesday after practice. Do you think? Six months ago, his NHL career...

Exactly a week ago on Thursday, Todd McLellan ended the experiment. For the time being. With his team somewhat sluggish out of the gates this season and looking for inspiration, the San Jose Sharks head coach halted the divorce of the big boys, re...

Exactly a week ago on Thursday, Todd McLellan ended the experiment. For the time being. With his team somewhat sluggish out of the gates this season and looking for inspiration, the San Jose Sharks head coach halted the divorce of the big boys, re...

Joe Thornton was named captain of the San Jose Sharks

We're less than two weeks away from finding out who will play for Canada and the United States in the Olympics. Are players nervous? One game out west gave us our answer.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Patrick Marleau was quick to correct me. As I stood there in the San Jose Sharks' dressing room asking him about the way he's responded after being stripped of the captaincy last summer, the star forward politely yet clearly made...