The day before the 2011 NHL entry draft, Devin Setoguchi signed a three-year contract with the San Jose Sharks. Draft day showed up and Setoguchi was unexpectedly traded to the Minnesota Wild for defenseman Brent Burns.
“No, not at all,” Setoguchi told the media on Monday when asked if he had any inkling that he’d be traded. “I was just more excited that I signed the new contract. And then the next day you get shipped off. But that’s the way it is. That’s sports. You can never get too comfortable and things happen for a reason. They wanted me here and I want to be here. I want to be a big part to this team and help out. I’m excited to be here and get a fresh start.”
Danny Heatley has played his last game as a member of the San Jose Sharks.
In a shocking move that further proves how discontent the Sharks were with yet another season where they failed to make it to the Stanley Cup Final, Heatley, a two-time 50-goal scorer, was dealt to the Minnesota Wild for forward Martin Havlat.
The move to trade Heatley is a shocking one, considering that when the Sharks acquired him from Ottawa two seasons ago, they were hoping that he was the missing ingredient that could lift the perennial contending Sharks over the hump in the quest for the franchise’s first Stanley Cup.
Although the focus of the hockey world has been deadlocked on the aftermath of the 2011 NHL entry draft, there were several big deals made over the weekend that can’t be overlooked.
Quite possibly the biggest was the Philadelphia Flyers signing of goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov on Thursday. The Flyers signed the Russian netminder to a huge nine-year contract worth $51 million after they cleared cap space by trading away forwards Jeff Carter and Mike Richards. The knock against Philadelphia has always been their shaky goaltending. After another questionable season for them between the pipes in 2011 (in which they used three different starting goaltenders), will Bryz finally be the answer?
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If you would have asked any of the members of the San Jose Sharks following their 2OT loss to Vancouver in Game 5, to a man, each one of them would have told you that it never should have even gotten to that point.
The Sharks, who held a 2-1 lead for the majority of the third period, fought hard to stave off elimination all game long, and it looked as though the Western Conference Finals would in fact be going back to San Jose. But with 13.2 seconds left in regulation, Ryan Kesler broke the hearts of San Jose fans with his game-tying tip-in goal.
Discipline and special teams continue to be the two main themes of this year’s Western Conference finals. Saturday’s matinee affair between the Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks was no exception.
Sami Salo scored twice, Henrik Sedin had four assists and the Canucks scored a postseason record three 5-on-3 goals during a 4-2 victory against the Sharks. Vancouver was forced to kill off five power plays in a row, but their penalty killing unit did so with ease. The same could not be said for San Jose’s.
Prior to the start Game 3 of the Western Conference finals, the San Jose Sharks claimed that they were going to come out and treat it like a Game 7. Unfortunately for the Vancouver Canucks, they did.
“I think our group, individuals within our group, spoke to you today about approaching it like Game 7. They obviously did that in the first period,” Sharks coach Todd McLellan said. “My answer to that was I’d like them to approach Games 1 through 7 like it was Game 7. We’ll see if we can replicate that again on Sunday afternoon (in Game 4).”
Saturday, May 14 at Boston, 5:00 p.m. VERSUS, CBC, RDS
Tuesday, May 17 at Boston, 5:00 p.m. VERSUS, TSN, RDS
Thursday, May 19 at Tampa Bay, 5:00 p.m. VERSUS, TSN, RDS
Saturday, May 21 at Tampa Bay, 10:30 a.m. NBC, TSN, RDS
*Monday, May 23 at Boston, 5:00 p.m. VERSUS, CBC, RDS
*Wednesday, May 25 at Tampa Bay, 5:00 p.m. VERSUS, CBC, RDS
*Friday, May 27 at Boston, 5:00 p.m. VERSUS, CBC, RDS
After suffering one of the nastiest elbow dislocations you will ever see, Rondo returned to the Boston Celtics’ Game 3 matchup against the Miami Heat, chipping in with 11 assists and a pair of one-armed baskets in the fourth quarter to lead his team to an inspiring victory.
The Red Wings know all about this kind of gutty determination. Just ask Johan Franzen and Pavel Datsyuk.
The day before the 2011 NHL entry draft, Devin Setoguchi signed a three-year contract with the San Jose Sharks. Draft day showed up and Setoguchi was unexpectedly traded to the Minnesota Wild for defenseman Brent Burns.
