Once again the time has come for the NHL regular season schedule to be released. The schedule guidelines remain the same: 6 games against each divisional opponent, 4 games for each conference opponent, and 1 game for each team in the other conference. There will be three “at large” teams from the opposing conference that [...]

I, like thousands of Sharks fans out there, do not live within the official Sharks territory. Sure, I consider my dorm room in LA to be an unofficial outpost of Sharks Territory (and I have a sign that affirms that), but that doesn’t mean the local cable/satellite provider recognizes that. And so in order to [...]

Because I’ve found myself completely devoid of any creativity recently, I decided to just calculate the STP and aSTP for each team thus far. Some surprises, some not – but expect for the standings to change drastically in the next few weeks as both hot and slow starts get averaged out. Honestly, Columbus’s 95% PK [...]

In posting the 08-09 aSTP rankings, CTGray brought up an interesting question – how well did Ron Wilson do with special teams in comparison to Todd McLellan? It was accepted knowledge that the power play was stagnant under Wilson, and much more dynamic under McLellan, but how did that translate numerically? Not wanting to stop [...]

There’s a stat that I previously analyzed but didn’t name – STP. My definition of STP is Special Teams Percentage – the basic stat that combines both the power play and penalty kill percentage. Teams over a total of 100% do well on special teams, scoring more goals than they give up, while teams under [...]

For the past three days, the Sharksrookies have taken part in three-game tournament with the Ducks rookies. The Sharks ended up sweeping the series, winning it by a combined score of 12-3, with one goal being a shootout tally. So, that’s awesome, but not what the rookie tournament is really all about. Besides the whole [...]