San Jose Sharks

By Nick Burger This company includes Joe Thornton, Joe Pavelski, and Marc-Edouard Vlasic. When Mitchell returns, the Sharks will be gaining a speedy center that head coach Todd McLellan said might be moved to the wing before the season started.

By MJ Kasprzak Factor in missing players and the results are all the more cause for optimism. Coach Todd McLellan had to juggle lines because he was missing Joe Pavelski and Torrey Mitchell for all six games, Ryan Vesce and Devin Setoguchi vs. Philadelphia, and Douglas Murray vs. Washington.

By Andy Bensch But in order for that to happen, head coach Todd McLellan needs to stop messing around with his power-play and put out his best weapons. With Boyle and Vlasic at the point, the top power-play unit ought to be the following five: Heatley, Thornton, Setoguchi, Boyle, Vlasic.

By PJ Swenson(jon@sharkspage.com) The Islanders carried a 1-0 lead after 20 minutes based on a power play tally from left wing Matt Moulson. San Jose Sharks head coach Todd McLellan dressed 11 forwards and 7 defenseman for the game, juggling lines on the fly based on performance. The top power play unit from last season, Marle...

By MJ Kasprzak The 2009-10 San Jose Sharks are 2-2. Often in hockey, one team outplays another but loses, perhaps because of the opposing goaltender, perhaps because of lucky or unlucky bounces. If coach Todd McLellan does not address the head, heart, and tail of the Sharks, this could be a roller-coaste...

With the NHL season two days away, Sharks Coach Todd McLellan indicated Tuesday that starting goalie Evgeni Nabokov will have to earn his games between the pipes more than last year when the coaching staff tried to follow a set schedule.

By jon@sharkspage.com (PJ Swenson) In a chat with Mercury News beat writer David Pollak after a Monday practice, head coach Todd McLellan said Heatley would most likely play on the top line Joe Thornton and Devin Setoguchi. With 68 power play goals over the last 4 seasons, expect Heatley to become a fixture on the first power p...

By jon@sharkspage.com (PJ Swenson) In an interview with SJsharks.com, second year head coach Todd McLellan noted that there will be new ideas and new combinations exercised in training camp but many of the established principles should remain the same. He also added that a second tier group of players, referencing Joe Pave...

The San Jose Sharks have hired Matt Shaw as an assistant coach, reuniting him with head coach Todd McLellan. Shaw replaces Todd Richards, who left the Sharks last month to become the Minnesota Wild's head coach. Shaw spent the past two season on Jacques Lemaire's staff in Minnesota. Shaw was...

McLellan hit it spot on. Someone give that young up-and-comer a head coaching gig. If Mitchell is healthy, and is retained by the Sharks, expect him to entrench himself on the third line and hold onto it like a kitten to a tree branch. ...

But if anyone is questioning this team's desire to win, the roster Todd McLellan has in place, or the Sharks chances during the course of this series? Pack up shop and go on home. We've got enough stress to deal with. Welcome to the big dance SLGT. ...

Thursday's State of The Sharks is an opportunity for fans to hear from the horses' mouth what went wrong two weeks ago. Doug Wilson, Todd McLellan, Joe Thornton, Dan Boyle, Joe Pavelski, and Patrick Marleau will all be in attendance. ...

By Chris Bouthillier Western Conference Game Three Winner: St. Louis Anaheim (8) at San Jose (1)—ANA leads 1-0 Sharks coach Todd McLellan had two days to prepare his team for Game Two. Expect a more energetic start from the President Trophy winners. Game Two Winner: San Jose

By Andy Bensch For the first time all season, an injury that forced head coach Todd McLellan to juggle the lines has actually created some new energy. San Jose now pulls back within a point of the Red Wings and plays again tomorrow against Colorado with a chance to regain the top spot in the Western Conferen...

By PJ Swenson(jon@sharkspage.com) The first-year head coach McLellan coached the San Jose Sharks to the NHL's best record at the halfway point of the 2008-09 season, and with a 4-1 road win over Edmonton he was named as the starting coach for the Western Conference for this weekend's NHL Allstar Game in Montreal. McLellan is...

The San Jose Sharks continues to have the best team in NHL this season, still without a regulation loss at the HP Pavilion, but on the road they aren’t the same team when they are way from home. The Sharks head coach Todd McLellan is teaching this team to believe in themselves. With no regulatio...

By Greg Wyshynski Preview: Anaheim Ducks at San Jose Sharks (10:30 p.m. EST; TV: FSPT, CSBA, Yahoo! Sports). Man, are we pumped for this game, which you can watch right here on Yahoo! Sports as well. Sharks Coach Todd McLellan refuses to count the Ducks out of the division race, calling them "a pretty damn good ho...

By Ross McKeon New coach Todd McLellan wants to see the San Jose defense get involved, and that hasn't been a problem for newcomer Rob Blake. He assisted on four of San Jose's seven goals during a blowout win over the Washington Capitals. Blake has 17 points for the season, two fewer than the league-leader f...

By Greg Wyshynski • Losing Andy McDonald is basically a death-blow for the St. Louis Blues on several fronts. [Hockey Guy] • Now that the San Jose Sharks' power play has come around, is there no denying that Todd McLellan is the coach of the year thus far in the NHL? For the sheer fact that Patrick Marleau is sudde...

By jon@sharkspage.com (PJ Swenson) A transcript of San Jose Sharks head coach Todd McLellan's conference call with the media Monday afternoon: Q] How do you go into facing the Detroit Red Wings for the first time Thursday? Have you talked with Mike (Babcock) at all about it?

By chuqui While some people may have called you an impatient fan that doesn’t understand the “nuances” of the game, new Sharks coach Todd McLellan says you’re right. McLellan has the numbers to prove his point. In studying the statistical charts from 2007-08, one number popped out at him: shots take...