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LOS ANGELES -- A titanic Californian fortnight is over, ending the way it began, with a Jonathan Quick gem. What else is new, right? A series that was incredibly close had to end, the reigning Stanley Cup champions raising their game one more t...

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.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- This sport has a rich history of gutsy performances at playoff time, of players forging their reputations by paying whatever price is necessary to win. The playoffs tell you a lot about the character of a player. This night...

LOS ANGELES -- Center Brad Richardson is the most likely player to be inserted into the Los Angeles Kings' lineup Thursday night for Game 2 to replace the injured Jarret Stoll. "If that's the case, I'm excited to get back in there," Richardson sai...

The San Jose Sharks were the last team to eliminate the Los Angeles Kings in a playoff series, when the clubs met two years ago. Since then, the Kings have won five straight series, capturing the Stanley Cup last spring and earning a hard-fought open...

The San Jose Sharks have played the second-most playoff games, behind only Detroit, since 2004, when a nine-year run as a contender began with a trip to the conference finals. Because that run hasn't produced a championship -- although three confe...

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...

The St. Louis Blues dominated the San Jose Sharks this season, sweeping the season series 4-0 and outscoring them 11-3 in the process. And yet, if the Blues were to be honest, we're guessing the last team they'd want to face in the opening round was ...

The Boston Bruins woke up Sunday morning, Oct. 30, dead last in the Eastern Conference at 3-7-0, having just been swept in a home-and-home by the rival Montreal Canadiens. And yet, it's in that moment of despair that Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli beli...

We are trained to look for winners and losers when teams make big trades, but the Minnesota Wild and San Jose Sharks may just be winners in the moves they made together this past offseason. Three trades involving big names between the two clubs fr...

It's a feeling the Sharks are getting mighty tired of, as they failed to reach the Stanley Cup finals once again when they looked every bit as dangerous as any other team in the league.

If you're looking for a quick and easy way to measure Vancouver's well-deserved 2-0 series lead in the Western Conference finals, the Sharks' second line is a heck of a place to start.

The two best teams in the NHL dropped the puck for Game 1 of the Western Conference finals in Vancouver on Sunday and here's what we observed from the Canucks' come-from-behind 3-2 win over the San Jose Sharks: • The general thinking wa...

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