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Marian Hossa shined in his highly-anticipated Chicago debut with two goals, as the Blackhawks took it to San Jose in a 7-2 final at the Shark Tank.

A stop home helped the San Jose Sharks end a brief rough patch. A visit to Anaheim might help them avoid a third straight loss on the road.

"Right away, I didn't think he was hurt because it looked like he turned in time," , one of five players on the ice at the time, said Tuesday.

The NHL-leading San Jose Sharks are on a 12-game point streak, but they're not happy about blowing a pair of two-goal leads recently.

So, the question posed to Sharks goalie Evgeni Nabokov was, if he could reflect about his current run of strong play in which he seems to have settled into a groove and "... Not going there, Nabokov interrupted, deflecting the query like a weak shot from the blue line.

Before the 2009-10 season started, there were a few concerns for the San Jose Sharks.

The Predators and San Jose Sharks are tied 1-1 after the first period. The Sharks took a 1-0 lead with 9:59 left in the first period when Joe Pavelski scored his second goal of the season.

There's not a whole lot of the United States north of South St. Paul, Minn., but Sharks goaltender Alex Stalock found some when he went hunting for a place to play college hockey.

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The Oilers dropped two straight games for the first time this season, losing 5-2 in Calgary on Saturday, then 2-0 in Vancouver the following night.

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.

Malhotra double feeds Sharks Philadelphia Flyers forward Mike Richards collides with San Jose Sharks goalie Thomas Greiss, of Germany, in the second period of an NHL hockey game, Sunday, Oct.

Thomas Greiss is still the gold standard for goaltending around here, but Alex Stalock is way ahead of Greiss in one regard.

You could have had gotten good odds betting the San Jose Sharks to have losses to the Colorado Avalanche and Los Angeles Kings along with a blowout win over the Anaheim Ducks after three games.

Host Greg Papa was joined by television broadcasters and video game voice impresarios Randy Hahn and Drew Remenda as well as color analyst in waiting Jeremy Roenick.

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.

Live Scoreboard Puck-rakers Blog Dispatch Blue Jackets beat reporters Aaron Portzline and Tom Reed keep you up to date with news and notes from on the ice and off.

If someone were to have predicted that the Sharks' top line was going to amount 13 points in their season opening three game road trip, they probably wouldn't have predicted that the Sharks would be just 1-2 going into their home opener.

Teddy Purcell scored the tiebreaking goal from behind San Jose's goal line with 5:10 to play, and the Los Angeles Kings blew a four-goal lead before holding off the Sharks 6-4 Tuesday night.