Fear The Fin reader mymclife put together a great piece on the hell fans of the California teams get from other hockey fans. Good read.

New WTC post from Pollack. Of note:

*Heatley's +6 night is the best for a player being on the ice for all his team's goals since Richard Smehlik had a +6 for Atlanta back in 2002. Also, the Heatley-Thornton-Setoguchi line's combined plus-minus went from -12 to +2 thanks to that game.
*Some observations on Jason Demers' bad night, including the Nabby shove at the end of the game.
*Joe Ike was apparently let go, according to Greg Jamison. Team got rid of 8-10 jobs during the off-season, and dedicated PA announcer seems to be one of them. The guy doing the PA last night was Danny Miller, who you may recognize as the contest and promotion guy during TV breaks.
*McLellan with some comments on the team's defense and whether the Thornton line would break out that night.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be in the corner depressed about Joe Ike being let go. :(

The Sharks' own Randy and Drew are returning to do the commentary for 2K Sports' NHL 2K10, and video game tabloid blog Kotaku decided to interview Randy to get some insight into the process of recording commentary for sports games in general.

Good insight on why exactly the Sharks' problems aren't as big of a deal as some folks make them out to be.

Sports Illustrated has just put out their lists of the top 5 and worst 5 owners in each of the major sports, and the Sharks' ownership group, San Jose Sports and Entertainment, was named the 4th best NHL owner.

H/T to Puck Daddy for the link.

With the excitement over a potential BoC in this year's playoffs, might as well quickly point a Sharks-Ducks series would actually be the SECOND Battle of California - the first was in the 1969 playoffs, where the Kings beat the Oakland Seals 4 games to 3 in the Western Division semifinals. With many folks incorrectly saying this year would be the first playoff series involving Cali teams, might as well point this out - especially since this is the 40th anniversary of the original BoC.

For those of you that missed it in the GDT, here's that fake Nabby Twitter account again.

ESPN.com's Pierre LeBrun put up an entry on his blog singing the praises of our beloved coach Todd McLellan, including asking why he isn't being considered for the Jack Adams Award this season.

H/T to Puck Daddy for pointing it out.