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Here in the first week of December, the Worcester Sharks have 53 of them, after having 20 at this time last year, 15 of them two Decembers ago.

Dany Heatley assisted on two goals in his first game against Ottawa since his blockbuster trade to San Jose , leading the Sharks to a 5-2 victory over the Senators on Tuesday night.

On a night when the Sharks outscored Providence, 2-1, and outshot the Bruins , 39-25, Worcester's best shift of the game didn't make a dent on the scoresheet.

Nabokov makes 28 saves as Sharks top Canucks 4-2 Eds: APNewsNow. Sharks 4, Canucks 2. AP Photo VCRS102, VCRD205, VCRD202 VANCOUVER, British Columbia Dan Boyle scored the go-ahead goal on a power play 6:15 into the second period, and Evgeni Nabokov made 28 saves to lead the San Jose Sharks to a 4-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday night.

Patrick Marleau scored three goals, and Joe Pavelski had the lone shootout goal in the NHL-leading San Jose Sharks' 5-4 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Friday night.

Introducing the 2009-10 Worcester Sharks, whose motto has become, 'Here today, gone yesterday.' The Sharks lost two more players before last night's game, as Ryan Vesce was recalled to San Jose and Torrey Mitchell went back to the NHL at the end of his conditioning stint.

Joe Callahan takes his age so seriously, he wears it on his uniform. The Sharks defenseman is 26 years old and has that number.

Despite outshooting the Pirates, 33-21, the Worcester Sharks lost their franchise-record seventh straight game, 3-1, last night at the Cumberland County Civic Center.

Dany Heatley scored three times, Joe Thornton recorded his 600th NHL assist, and the San Jose Sharks beat the Philadelphia Flyers, 6-3, on Friday night.

Ryan Vesce and Dan DaSilva gave Worcester an early 2-0 lead, but the Sharks could not hold on and dropped their sixth straight game in a 5-3 loss to the Portland Pirates on Wednesday night at the DCU Center.

Hockey is supposed to be painful to play, not to watch, but that's what it's like for Worcester Sharks fans these days.

Already with the most points in the NHL, the San Jose Sharks are starting to get healthy.

The Sharks have a schizophrenic power play. Overall, their 24 percent success rate was fourth best in the NHL before Saturday's games.

Sharks general manager Doug Wilson returned from this week's NHL meetings in Toronto sounding hopeful that changes are coming that will reduce the number of head injuries by increasing the penalty for hits above the shoulders.

The Sharks ' come-from-you're-screwed 4-3 win over Nashville on Tuesday night was the first time they've had to defy gravity to win, but there's no reason to quibble about that - not when there's a more serious problem.

On Oct. 30, 2008, an extremely unknown rookie winger was playing in just his second career game.

The Predators and San Jose Sharks are tied 2-2 after two periods. The teams were tied 1-1 after the first period, but the Sharks moved ahead 2:33 into the second period.

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According to the facts and figures in the AHL Guide and Record Book, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins are not the greatest team in league history.

Hockey players know that regular-season records mean absolutely nothing in the playoffs.