Manny Malhotra News

Evgeni Nabokov stopped 27 shots for his second shutout of the season, and the San Jose Sharks used a balanced attack to crush the Pittsburgh Penguins, 5-0, at HP Pavilion.

The Sharks have been the NHL's most dominant team in the faceoff circle with a 57.7 percent success rate over the first month of the season.

Benn Ferriero #78, Manny Malhotra #27, and Patrick Marleau #12 of the San Jose Sharks celebrate one of Malhotra's two goals in the second period against the Philadelphia Flyers on October 25, 2009 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A lot of NHL coaches prefer not to talk about the opposition, or pay a quick compliment and let it go at that.

The San Jose Sharks are back on the road after a brief two-game homestand. Not that it mattersa 'they just keep winning.

The Sharks have noticed this season that the Los Angeles Kings are making a pretty good case this season that their days as Pacific Division patsies have ended.

Three games on Sunday night. Home teams listed first: Philadelphia 1-4 San Jose .

Manny Malhotra broke a 1-1 tie in the second period with two goals Sunday, carrying San Jose to a 4-1 win over Philadelphia Malhotra had gone 18 regular-season games without a goal before scoring twice in a span of 2:14. He lifted a backhander past Brian Boucher 7:51 into the second and then beat Boucher with a wrist shot.

When the San Jose Sharks left for their most recent road trip they found themselves in the middle of the Pacific division standings, off to a mediocre 3-2-1 start.

It was a wild week in the NHL. The Blue Jackets left their back door wide open, the New York Rangers came back to Earth and Vancouver and Los Angeles both made big moves up the charts.

The San Jose Sharks embarked on a six-game, Eastern Conference road trip just under two weeks ago.

Manny Malhotra got his first two goals of the season, Dany Heatley and Jed Ortmeyer also scored and the San Jose Sharks beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1 Sunday night.

The Sharks signed Manny Malhotra primarily for his defensive abilities and faceoff skills, but they also had to like the fact he was coming off a career year offensively with 11 goals and 35 points.

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NEW YORK The Sharks have been plagued by poor starts this season, but even after falling behind by two goals less than halfway through the first period Monday night, there wasn't a sense of uh-oh. "We were on our heels," coach Todd McLellan said, "but we were talking on the bench that'd it be good to see how our team will respond." The Sharks ...

Going into Monday's game against the New York Rangers, the San Jose Sharks weren't exactly on the top of their game and it showed early in the first period.

In my last Sharks article , I lamented the play of the Sharks on the back end. This was for good reason: Through four games, San Jose had given up 13 goals had a composite save percentage of .863. In the last two games, the team has allowed just two goals in 125 minutes of skating, and Evgeni Nabokov has a save percentage of .971. This raises his ...

First, the Washington Capitals wore down the San Jose Sharks. Then Alex Ovechkin finished them off.

Head to head: The Sharks finished 38 points ahead of the Coyotes in the Pacific Division last season, but the teams split their series 3-3. Coyotes update: Major legal and business issues still surround the franchise, but once the season started, it became a pretty good hockey story, too.

At the suggestion of center Joe Thornton, the Sharks have become the latest NHL team to salute their fans with raised sticks at center ice after each home victory.