With the trade deadline looming, no team wants to get burned the way the Oilers did when they overpaid for 19 games of Sergei Samsonov’s service in 2006. The trade deadline (it’s Wednesday, so mark your calendar) can be great for fantasy teams, since sometimes a player just needs a chang...

We promise not to go on any Christian Bale-type rants when we dispense hockey advice. While the NHL trade deadline is just under a month away, fantasy leagues all over are getting to the point where rosters have to be frozen. If you find you’re lacking in a specific category, we’re here ...

Derick Brassard headlines a great crop of Blue Jacket rooks, but unfortunately a shoulder injury will keep him out for the rest of the season. While it’s officially past the halfway point of the schedule, the All-Star break is the symbolic tipping point NHL year. Let’s take a look back a...

And to think I could have stayed home and watched paint dry…. What can you say? Last game before the All-Star break, and a whole lotta “I don’t want to spend the break in a hot tub” broke out. Vancouver got a goal early on a really good shot on one of their few offensive chan...

Claude Lemieux—who is 43 and hasn't played an NHL game is six years—will suit up for the San Jose Sharks tonight. Ahh, the memories. Lemieux retired after the 2003 season, but decided last fall that it was time for him to get back in the game. His comeback started in China (seriously) be...

Imagine Rob Blake’s surprise Monday when he walked into the dressing room in San Jose and saw none other than Claude Lemieux. Blake had not yet heard his team had called up the veteran winger, so that’s how he found out. “It was nice to run into him,” Blake told ESPN.com. ...

okay, it’s official. THAT was a hell of a hockey game. Mid January, rolling towards the all-star game break, just two teams looking forward to the break in a meaningless mid-season game. well, not quite. Sharks carried the game and momentum pretty well most of the game. Detroit fought hard, bu...

Sharks are sending Torrey Mitchell to Worcester on a conditioning assignment. And, yes, that’s a good thing — it’s a sign that his leg is game ready and now it’s a question of making sure his fitness level is up to speed, too. Mitchell has missed the entire season after breaking his leg on t...

Fire on the Ice: Last September, McLellan uprooted his wife Debbie—“a hockey mom, as good as there is,� he says—and two sons from a home that they loved in Northville, Michigan, to settle in San Jose’s Willow Glen neighborhood. Their fi rst few days in California were spent on day trips to...

San Jose Sharks - News: 43 Points In 25 Games - 12/03/2008: Behind a brilliant four-point first period from Joe Thornton, San Jose exploded to a 4-0 lead on the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs, defeated their old coach, and most importantly, posted their 43rd point in 25 games, tying the 1943-44 Montre...