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Coach: Blake will be out 'for a couple of weeks' Sharks Coach Todd McLellan said Saturday that defenseman Rob Blake "will be out for a couple of weeks" with the upper-body injury that has sidelined him for two games.

The Pittsburgh Penguins will try to bounce back from their first road loss of the season when they visit the San Jose Sharks for tonight's battle between first-place teams at HP Pavilion.

Faceoff: 7:30 p.m. at HP Pavilion. TV: CSNCA. Radio: 98.5-FM, 92.1-FM. Head to head: The Sharks took down the Penguins 2-1 at HP Pavilion in October 2008 in their last meeting.

Rob Blake 's unexpected visit to the injured reserved this week has to send more shivers down the spine of Sharks fans than any of the other injuries that have already hit their team this season.

Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg scored in the shootout to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 2-1 win over San Jose, snapping the Sharks' six-game winning streak.

The San Jose Sharks placed defenseman Rob Blake on injured reserve Thursday with an upper-body injury.

San Jose defenseman Dan Boyle scored the lone goal in a shootout, and Evgeni Nabokov stopped all three Columbus shooters to give the Sharks their sixth straight win, 3-2 victory over the Blue Jackets on Wednesday night.

Evgeni Nabokov made 24 saves, and Ryane Clowe and Jamie McGinn scored their first goals of the season to help the San Jose Sharks beat the Western Conference-leading Colorado Avalanche 3-1 on Friday night.

Former Red Wings defenseman Chris Chelios's battle to reform the NHLPA and at least review the firing of former exeuctive director Paul Kelly and discuss the future of embattled interim executive director Ian Penny via a four-man panel including Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom, San Jose Sharks captain Rob Blake, and Boston Bruins forward Mark ...

Evgeni Nabokov made 24 saves, and Ryane Clowe and Jamie McGinn scored their first goals of the season to help the San Jose Sharks beat the Western Conference-leading Colorado Avalanche 3-1 on Friday night.

NHLPA interim leader resigns Chris Chelios is among a group of four players on a committee that is reviewing the operations of the NHLPA.

The Sharks have already navigated nearly a sixth of their season, another example of how time flies when you're never at home.

The Sharks returned to their practice ice Tuesday morning after nearly two weeks on the road, and a couple familiar faces were there waiting to join them.

ATLANTA It had been so long since the Sharks got off to a good start that maybe everybody simply forgot that protecting a lead is as important as getting one.

Tortorella has a reputation for being abrasive, and Boyle said the two clashed several times over the course of their six years together.

For the Sharks, this next stop on their six-game tour of the Eastern Conference is a chance to rebound from a mistake-filled loss that left them a so-so 5-4-1 through the first 10 games of the season.

The San Jose Sharks will make the latest stop on a lengthy east coast road trip tonight in Atlanta, where the 2008-09 regular-season Western Conference champions take on a Thrashers team that's beginning to come down after a hot start.

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 ...

Steven Stamkos lit the lamp twice to lead Tampa Bay past San Jose, 5-2, at St. Pete Times Forum.James Wright, Ryan Malone and Andrej Meszaros also tallied for the Lightning, who had dropped five of seven to begin the season.

When the Sharks traded Christian Ehrhoff to the Vancouver Canucks to create salary cap room in early September, it raised a question: Who would replace the 42 points he earned on the blue line last season? So far the answer appears to be Jason Demers.