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Wings Were Hungrier

by Paul on 05/08/07 at 09:59 AM ET
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from Mike Brophy of the Hockey News,

The Red Wings were clearly the hungrier team in this series. They refused to let injuries get them down and they pressed on offense. Game 6 was not one for the ages; in fact, it was a bit of a yawner. But the defensive tone was pure Mike Babcock, a coach who leans on his players to get the job done in their own end. Now we will see if Detroit’s weakened defense and so-so offense can contend with the Anaheim Ducks.

more on last night’s game…

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Same Story For Sharks

by Paul on 05/08/07 at 09:35 AM ET
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from the Mercury News,

So what happened? Well, the Red Wings happened, which means that winning a few more games during the regular season to get a higher seeding might have been a good idea. Ten days ago, there seemed to be an odd amount of confidence going into a series against a team with such tradition and determination.
“This wasn’t the Little Sisters of the Poor, you know,” Coach Ron Wilson barked to reporters after the game.

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Hasek Leads Wings To WCF

by Paul on 05/08/07 at 01:32 AM ET
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Hasek came up big tonight, frustrating the Sharks and leading the Wings to a 2-0 victory.
Wings open at home against the Ducks on Friday night.

added 11:58pm, from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,

On the opening day of their playoff series against the Detroit Red Wings, San Jose Sharks’ coach Ron Wilson was asked about the importance of goaltending.
“That’s all playoffs are,” replied Wilson. “It’s goaltending. I don’t have to say anything more.”
For the normally loquacious and talkative Wilson to say no more was unusual, almost extraordinary, but his words also proved prophetic — for the wrong team. Of all the things that helped the Red Wings advance to the Western Conference finals Monday night, the primary factor was the play of 42-year-old Dominik Hasek in goal.

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What Happened To The Sharks

by Paul on 05/07/07 at 03:15 PM ET
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fromm Jim Kelley at Sportsnet,

A team that was poised, relentless, blessed with timely (and reasonably proficient) scoring, defensively sound play and soundly physical play in eliminating Nashville in five games seemingly has chucked all of the things it did well in that series. The Sharks haven’t just lost their bite; they’ve gone belly-up in the face of a Detroit attack that has been neither withering nor relentless.
In fact, the Red Wings have pretty much been fortunate given the number of injuries they’ve had before and during this series.

more... plus some Sabres/Sens talk…

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Primetime Tonight

by Paul on 05/07/07 at 10:19 AM ET
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Expect the Sharks to lay the body on the Wings defense every chance they get tonight.  How the Wings “D” holds up will be the key to the game tonight.
Brent Lebda is a game time decision and if he is not ready to go, Derek Meech will be the Wings 6th defenseman.

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Sharks Getting “Mavs” Label

by Paul on 05/07/07 at 09:36 AM ET
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from Ray Ratto of the San Francisco Chronicle,

Secondly, this isn’t a 1-8 thing; the Sharks are the lower-seeded team here, but most people saw them as one of the two best teams in the West (with Anaheim the other). The Wings were older and smaller and seemingly ripe for a beating from the right team.
Only the Sharks don’t seem to be that team after all.
Despite a regular season in which they walked the talk awfully convincingly, they have established a disturbing trend of getting complacent and/or compliant after 15 or so minutes in each of the first five games, and each game the difference has become increasingly pronounced.

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San Jose Wants The Ice Tilted In Their Direction

by Paul on 05/06/07 at 10:22 PM ET
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from the AP via the Monterey Herald,

Though the Red Wings can finish off Wilson’s faltering club in Game 6 at the Shark Tank on Monday night, the coach isn’t certain what else he can do about his sputtering offense, his awful power play and a club that retreats into a shoddy defensive shell after taking the lead.
He’s just hoping his veteran players, outside of do-everything center Joe Thornton, finally take charge against the Red Wings, forcing their teammates to overcome an inexplicable pattern of retreating with a lead.
“It’s not by design,” Wilson said. “It just seems to have happened. We’ve got to get our defensemen to be more aggressive. We give up a lot of space in the neutral zone, and the ice tilts. ... We can prevent them from tilting the ice by playing hard for 60 minutes.”

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Homer Noticed

by Paul on 05/06/07 at 10:08 AM ET
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from the Mercury News,

So how are the Red Wings - who have beaten the Sharks twice since Holmstrom’s return from an eye injury - a different team with him in the lineup?
“I don’t think they do anything differently. But I think he is doing his job better than anybody in front of the net,” Nabokov said of Holmstrom, mentioning forwards Todd Bertuzzi and Dan Cleary as two Red Wings who played a similar style in the first three games. “But this guy seems like he’s just finding a way to knock the puck out of the air or pass the puck right in there. He draws the defensemen to him. He’s talented.”

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Sharks Searching For Answers

by Paul on 05/06/07 at 03:01 AM ET
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from Ray Ratto of the San Francisco Chronicle,

It’s the sameness that seems to be getting to the San Jose Sharks. Give 10, 14, maybe 18 minutes of top-quality play, then disintegrate.
Or maybe it’s the history, now that Evgeni Nabokov has added his name to the pantheon of Sharks goalies who have been pantsed while trying to handle the puck.
Or maybe it’s finding out what they should already know, that Tomas Holmstrom is to be minded far more diligently than he has to date.

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Sharks Need To Play A Full Game

by Paul on 05/05/07 at 09:45 PM ET
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from Bob Duff of the Windsor Star,

A team incapable of living with prosperity, coming apart at the seams before our very eyes.
A goaltender committing colossal, series-turning blunders.
If this is the Stanley Cup playoffs, shouldn’t the San Jose Sharks be the club wearing red and white?...
“We seem to keep lapsing,” Sharks centre Joe Thornton said. “You think we’d be over that by now.”

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