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Alright, so a lot of things did not go our way this year when it comes to the sharks, but maybe it would be nice to focus on some of the positive things that came out of this year.

No negativity please, we already have enough threads for that.

This kid is leading the OHL right now in points with 44 goals and 80 assists in 62 games played and will likely win the scoring race. If anyone has some background info on him that would be great, he looks like he could be a great addition to the team one day.

Next weekend, me and two friends are going down to do a little camping around Crater Lake, Oregon. Once we got doing a little background research it looks like there is some skiing near the Crater, so just wondering if anyone has done it before and if there are any tips you could give us? Thanks Alot!

So, on Nov 17 (just a little over a month ago), it seemed like our team was imploding. There was a lot of talk about making changes, and a lot of talk about how bad this team was playing (and I must admit that I was one of them). I made what some would call a bold prediction at the time.

By now we have all heard about how awful the road trip was (16 out of 21 games to start the season). But at the time, a casual fan of the sharks may not have fully understood those implications.

At the time the sharks held a 10-8-2 record that would give us 90.2 points averaged over a season (8th place in the east had

I think I feel the way we have all been feeling lately. This has been a challenging first quarter of the season. Some strokes of great play (for example the first game of the year) and some games that were very difficult to watch. Well good news is here (kind of).

The Sharks have pretty much ended an extremely dense first quarter of the season the sharks can now look forward to 11 home games out of 15 games between now and Christmas. The quality of competition seems like it will be easier (although as we have witnessed the sharks don't always play good against the bad teams, but can play really well against good teams).

The Sharks record right now is 10-8-2 for a total of 22 points...

This is a temporary thread for the 8pm ET/ 5pm Pacific Game thread.

Info: The Sharks have lost 4 in a row, and the ducks suck... all you need to know.

Also, Sharks could really use a big road win here tonight after losing to Buffalo at home yesterday afternoon.

SCORING SUMMARY

1ST PERIOD

08:25 SJS Brent Burns (3) Snap shot - ASST: Patrick Marleau (7)

19:39 SJS PPG - Joe Pavelski (5) Tip-in - ASST: Joe Thornton (7), Logan Couture (5)

PENALTY SUMMARY

1ST PERIOD

02:16 ANA Tim Jackman Fighting (maj) - 5 min against John Scott

02:16 SJS John Scott Fighting (maj) - 5 min against Tim Jackman

12:53 SJS Adam Burish Slashing - 2 min against Tim Jackman

15:38 SJS Matt Nieto Hooking - 2 min

Against the Kings 20-34

Against the Jets 26-30

Against the Capitals 23-34

This is really strange compared to previous years, when the sharks consistently outshot opponents. Last year they were number 1 in shots for per game (34.8) and number 6 in shots against per game (27.8).

They are currently ranked 24th in shots for and 24th in shots against, despite being 3-0 on the season.

Obviously a sample size of 3 games is not ideal, but it would likely be troublesome if they were to keep up their current for and against rates.

I just came over to this subreddit to say that I am sorry your team is one of the big losers of the shootout.. a ridiculous part of the game in my opinion ( I am coming as a fan of a team that has a 10-7 shootout record).

Assuming you had won even .333 of your shootouts you would likely squeeze into the playoffs.

I think the shutout (while entertaining) does not have a place in our game, and I would just like to say sorry to all of you that on the short end of that stick this year.

As you can see from the sidebar of this subreddit, the next six games are going to be very important for the sharks. (although I think the sidebar may have an error in it: it says the ducks on Dec 23, but that is the same as the Avalanche game on the 23rd).

Here is the Schedule for the rest of 2013 (the second team listed is the home team):

THU DEC 19, 2013 SHARKS KINGS 7:30 PM CSN-CA SAT DEC 21, 2013 STARS SHARKS 7:30 PM CSN-CA MON DEC 23, 2013 AVALANCHE SHARKS 7:30 PM CSN-CA FRI DEC 27, 2013 SHARKS COYOTES 6:00 PM CSN-CA SUN DEC 29, 2013 DUCKS SHARKS 7:30 PM NHLN-CA, CSN-CA TUE DEC 31, 2013 SHARKS DUCKS 5:00 PM CSN-CA FLY ALASKA

As you can see, two of the

Also do you think he will do it as a Shark? This man has truly had a great career (that is not even close to being over in my opinion).

I believe he will definitely crack the top 20 for career assists (needs 892 to pass Dale Hawerchuck for 20th spot, and would need 1034 to pass Lemieux for 10th all time. (A side note on that is Jagr very likely could pass Lemieux by that time).

Considering his production and play is showing no signs of slowing down, I would guess that Jumbo makes 1000 career, and I think he will make the top 10 in assists within the next 4 seasons.

What an accomplishment for a truly great player, and how lucky we are as Sharks fans to have such a great play-maker on

Recently I have been looking at our draft picks from the last 10 years or so.

The Sharks have only 1 (YES ONE) first round draft pick since 2007. That draft pick was Charlie Coyle a forward who made a lot of sharks fans excited, but was traded away last year along with Devin Setoguchi for a 2nd round pick for Brent Burns. (Sharks have also only picked 2 second round picks).

This means that we have no natural first round draft picks in our system since Logan Couture in 2007 (and just look how great that first round pick has played out).

In fact if you look all through our drafts of the last few years you find that many sharks picks have been going to other teams for past trades.

Why

Alright so it seems like a bit of a strange question but express your life in a chord right now and if you feel like it show us how you play that chord (tab).

A bit of an abstract question, but interesting nonetheless. For me I would have to say a G add9 with some alternate tunings looking like this:

E | 5

B | 3

G | 4

D | 5

G | 0

C | 0

(If you have an interesting chord and want to know its name, try this:http://www.chordbook.com/guitarchords.php)

I would be more than happy to set one up if their was sufficient interest in our community. Let me know. I have been fairly happy with the yahoo fantasy hockey, but if others have a suggestion let me know.

EDIT: A Yahoo Fantasy Hockey Pool has been Started.
Unfortunately for the time being this pool can only accomadate the first twenty players. This league is pretty fun and can be found here: http://hockey.fantasysports.yahoo.com/hockey/16626 . The league name is "redditsansjoesharks and the password is: jumbojoe

I have also started a pool that can accommodate up to 1000 teams at pickuphockey.com, however the draft season does not s