*** San Jose Sharks Off-Season Thread ***

Originally posted by bayarealuv:

good luck next season

im glad i missed both away gms

Originally posted by Method:
BTW - If we had signed Chris Pronger like the rumors were suggesting last off season, we easily win the cup this year.

Worst decision this front office has made IMO. Pronger is legitmately one of the best players in hockey, should have brought him in.

Agreed 100% and if it were possible, 200%.. 300%.. as much as anyone could every possibly agree. Which I suppose.. is back to 100% -- Anyways ...

Absolutely.

And Fred .. I didn't miss either of them.

Originally posted by LeftBankeNiner:
Going back to Cali, Cali, Cali
Going back to Cali............ I don't think so!

Fail.

Originally posted by OnTheClock:

Originally posted by Method:
BTW - If we had signed Chris Pronger like the rumors were suggesting last off season, we easily win the cup this year.

Worst decision this front office has made IMO. Pronger is legitmately one of the best players in hockey, should have brought him in.

Agreed 100% and if it were possible, 200%.. 300%.. as much as anyone could every possibly agree. Which I suppose.. is back to 100% -- Anyways ...

Absolutely.

And Fred .. I didn't miss either of them.

ehhh we'll just get pronger when the flyers decide to release or let him play out his contract when hes on his last legs like we did blake

Originally posted by FredFlintstone:

Originally posted by OnTheClock:

Originally posted by Method:
BTW - If we had signed Chris Pronger like the rumors were suggesting last off season, we easily win the cup this year.

Worst decision this front office has made IMO. Pronger is legitmately one of the best players in hockey, should have brought him in.

Agreed 100% and if it were possible, 200%.. 300%.. as much as anyone could every possibly agree. Which I suppose.. is back to 100% -- Anyways ...

Absolutely.

And Fred .. I didn't miss either of them.

ehhh we'll just get pronger when the flyers decide to release or let him play out his contract when hes on his last legs like we did blake

Is there really anyone on the level of Pronger that we can get? Who, seriously, do we think we're going to replace our captain with? Guys like Taylor Doherty and Petrecki are 1-2 years (maybe more, but hopefully less) away.

Originally posted by OnTheClock:

Originally posted by FredFlintstone:

Originally posted by OnTheClock:

Originally posted by Method:
BTW - If we had signed Chris Pronger like the rumors were suggesting last off season, we easily win the cup this year.

Worst decision this front office has made IMO. Pronger is legitmately one of the best players in hockey, should have brought him in.

Agreed 100% and if it were possible, 200%.. 300%.. as much as anyone could every possibly agree. Which I suppose.. is back to 100% -- Anyways ...

Absolutely.

And Fred .. I didn't miss either of them.

ehhh we'll just get pronger when the flyers decide to release or let him play out his contract when hes on his last legs like we did blake

Is there really anyone on the level of Pronger that we can get? Who, seriously, do we think we're going to replace our captain with? Guys like Taylor Doherty and Petrecki are 1-2 years (maybe more, but hopefully less) away.

teams dont trade away top LEGIT dmen, they dont grow on trees. all we can do is clear space and sign guys like hamhuis or michalek. boyle or pavs could become our next captain, not really a hard choice

Yes. The Sharks were an epic fail.

Originally posted by LeftBankeNiner:
Yes. The Sharks were an epic fail.

Epic fail would have been losing in the first round again. The Sharks had a pretty good season and reached the Western Confrence Finals. They just got beat by a flat out better team.

Please God

Let Rob Blake retire.

Dougie W may just do the honorable thing and offer him a contract.

Thornton trade may be coming

6:05PM ET
Joe Thornton | Sharks

These playoffs have been full of trade buzz about Joe Thornton, who has failed to energize the San Jose Sharks and the team's now on the brink of elimination.

He has a minus-10 rating, which is "downright embarrassing," Sportsnet's Mike Brophy writes, and if the Sharks want to make big changes to this underachieving group, a Thornton trade would be the biggest of them all -- money-wise, talent-wise and symbolically.

He could potentially end up with the Calgary Flames, who are seeking a center to play alongside Jarome Iginla, CBC's Elliotte Friedman previously wrote. And surely a handful of other teams would take a flier on the former Hart Trophy winner.

A no-trade clause may keep him in San Jose, but Thornton might want a change of scenery, as well.

I know very little about hokey, but I watched some of the playoffs and just wanted to chime in.

The Sharks need a defenseman opposite Boyle who can just be straight up mean and has a little more defensive prowess. Boyle is good player, but he needs that kind of compliment imo and the sharks just don't have that guy.

We need to let Nabokov leave. He's the Tony Romo of goalies imo. He'll make an amazing save and then let the softest of goals in, and he can look good for regular season and even a little in the playoffs, but in the "4th quarter" so to speak he always chokes. The final four is the furthest he can go, but just is too much of a choke artist to enable the Sharks to win the Cup.

I'd like to keep Marleau, and he's been a team player and wants to win so hopefully he'll give us a hometown discount to stay with the Sharks and not keep us from being able to improve our team.

Alot has been made about how we need more speed, I really don't think it's true. Their are ways to counter speed. The Sharks just missed too many opportunities, the Blackhawks goalie was just too hot and Nabokov let too many soft goals in and didn't have that big, nasty defenseman to slow them down and make them pay imo.

Just my uneducated .02

Every year I say I'm going to try to get into hokey a little more (same with soccer) and never quite do. Maybe next year.

Originally posted by ads_2006:
Thornton trade may be coming

6:05PM ET
Joe Thornton | Sharks

These playoffs have been full of trade buzz about Joe Thornton, who has failed to energize the San Jose Sharks and the team's now on the brink of elimination.

He has a minus-10 rating, which is "downright embarrassing," Sportsnet's Mike Brophy writes, and if the Sharks want to make big changes to this underachieving group, a Thornton trade would be the biggest of them all -- money-wise, talent-wise and symbolically.

He could potentially end up with the Calgary Flames, who are seeking a center to play alongside Jarome Iginla, CBC's Elliotte Friedman previously wrote. And surely a handful of other teams would take a flier on the former Hart Trophy winner.

A no-trade clause may keep him in San Jose, but Thornton might want a change of scenery, as well.

wtf does calgary have that we want???? we'll need more than reghr and i dont like how much bouwmeester is getting paid for his production. calgary would be a bad partner.

Originally posted by ads_2006:
Thornton trade may be coming

6:05PM ET
Joe Thornton | Sharks

These playoffs have been full of trade buzz about Joe Thornton, who has failed to energize the San Jose Sharks and the team's now on the brink of elimination.

He has a minus-10 rating, which is "downright embarrassing," Sportsnet's Mike Brophy writes, and if the Sharks want to make big changes to this underachieving group, a Thornton trade would be the biggest of them all -- money-wise, talent-wise and symbolically.

He could potentially end up with the Calgary Flames, who are seeking a center to play alongside Jarome Iginla, CBC's Elliotte Friedman previously wrote. And surely a handful of other teams would take a flier on the former Hart Trophy winner.

A no-trade clause may keep him in San Jose, but Thornton might want a change of scenery, as well.

Unlike Boston, all we've done is put pieces around Thornton to succeed. The word ungrateful comes up very fast if Thornton wants a change of scenery.