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Game 61: Sharks vs. Islanders TT: 00:10:00
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It's time for the Sharks Morning Skate
with all the latest on San Jose Sharks Hockey.
Here are your hosts Dan Ruzanowski and Drew Remenda.
We bring you today's Morning Skate
from SAP Center at San Jose.
No, the San Jose Sharks are not practicing
the New York Islanders around the ice
as the sharks face off against the islanders
for the second and final time in this regular season series.
Drew, it's going to be the second kind of engagement
between McLean, Setter Braini, the phenom for the sharks
and Matthew Schaefer, the guy who has the same role
on the other side for the New York Islanders.
And I, for one, am very excited about this game.
I don't know how you can't be the way that Matthew Schaefer
has played this year has been absolutely amazing.
He's doing things where they're mentioning the guy Bobby Orr
as far as statistically some of the things he's done
as a rookie in the league.
He is an incredible skater.
Big guy moves really well.
Unlike McLean, Setter Braini, a very humble young man.
He's exciting to watch.
He's given the islanders a huge injection of skill,
enthusiasm, and hope.
And there's very few flaws on that young man's game.
In the position that I think is one of the hardest to learn
as a young player in the league, playing defense.
And he's doing it again like McLean, Setter Braini as a teenager.
That's incredible to me.
And think about this.
He's got 20 goals, which is the equivalent
of a forward scoring 50.
That's what that is.
And the other part of this is that if you look at all the teenagers
that were defensemen, the history of the national hockey league,
Raymond Borkley when he was 19.
And he had 17 goals.
The all-time record before the 20 goals that Schaefer
is just scored was 19 by Phil Howesley.
I mean, these are two hockey Hall of Famers.
And this kid's only his first year.
Yeah.
We're watching their practice and just watching them
on the power play, watching them dance on the blue line.
His skating is absolutely amazing.
And when you look at the islanders,
that was such a great bonus and break for them
that they were able to move up that high and get him
because he was the most coveted guy in the draft.
And this is the guy who went through a lot in his draft here.
His mum passes away from cancer.
His billet mum passes away as well.
He breaks his collarbone at the World Junior
and had a very tough draft here.
Yet he was still the number one guy to go.
Amazing young man.
Got to meet him in Toronto when we were there last year.
He is from all sources as advertised.
Superstar in the making.
Now we're talking about the set of Brini versus Schaefer matchup.
Tonight there's another one we're going to talk about.
How about Michael Misa?
Second overall drafted one pick after Schaefer was taken.
And Michael Misa is really coming on strong.
He had a three game goal scoring streak going into the last night's game
against the St. Louis Blues and came really close.
Hit the post in the first period.
Yeah.
Michael Misa 134 points in junior.
134 points in one season in 62 games or whatever it was.
That's ridiculous.
Michael Misa after coming back from the World Junior
then the Olympic break.
You have three Olympic break.
He's just kind of hit a big stride.
And I talked to him Danny about just how he approaches the game
and talking to him and listening to the detail he talks about
as far as playing the game and what you can do.
And he said to me that he said I can't get away with this stuff
I used to do in junior.
He said the one thing he went back and watched his brother play
against Gavin McKenna in Penn State.
And he said you know I watch those guys do some things
and I used to do that but I can't do it now because you can't get away
with it in the NHL.
Already he's learned that.
And the pace of his game has picked up tremendously.
That's the one thing I've seen from him.
And when I like about how he scores.
Scores from the inside.
He's not a perimeter player.
He's an inside player.
He doesn't mind going there.
So I think he's going to be able to do that.
So I think he's just hitting a great stride and that's.
I'm not going to he's just been.
I think even better than I thought because when he first started
he was playing a little bit slow and he thought oh boy.
But we kind of got spoiled.
Mathlet.
Kind of.
Yeah, kind of.
So he just he came in and took off.
And then we were like everybody just coming in from here on
and should be exactly like that.
Well it doesn't work that way.
Well, no, and you know what he reminds me of Patrick Marlow
in the early stage of his career because you remember
patty didn't start scoring until a handful of games in.
I still remember that first goal was a play right out in front
of the net against Nikolai Fabiuboulin in Phoenix.
And that was the beginning of a five hundred and sixty-six goal
career.
I think that's the number from Emma Murray is correct.
And more games played than anybody in the history of the game.
So I mean, you look at the sharks at center rice.
They got celebrate me and me.
So that's that's life is set for the next ten years.
And don't forget about Alex Weinberg as a guy who now
is the third line center.
You throw in the development of Zachos Stopchuck.
And then you got guys like B-Stead and Musty and people
like that coming up that can play that position.
And you're in pretty good shape.
They are in very good shape down the middle.
They're very good shape in net.
They're getting better at defense.
This big thing for them though is those guys have to start
developing at a more rapid pace because defense is harder.
And also there's big question marks about what my career is
going to do defensively.
But overall when you look at it going into the game tonight,
they just got to be overall everybody from top to bottom has
to be a hell of a lot better with the puck.
Well, yeah, they were not good with their choices against the
Blues.
23 what?
Giveaways?
Yeah.
Well, and two guys specifically though will Smith for one
and Sam Dickinson for the other.
Sam on a couple of goals.
The game winning goal was his man right out the side of the net.
Robert Thomas got loose.
And the first goal, they couldn't exit the zone and that resulted
in the play that led to the first time that they're going.
In the overtime, they gave away the puck twice.
They win the drive.
They don't get it.
Then it goes back.
Sam gets it along the boards, gives it away.
They get it back and Matlin gives it away.
You can't give the puck away at all, but especially in overtime.
Their puck play Danny was just the worst has been all year.
Now, great thing is get it back to back game.
You get a chance to redeem yourself overall though.
This is a very, very quick team.
Beyonders.
They move.
They get on the attack.
You've got to make sure defensively away from the puck.
You've got that speed away from the puck.
You have to track back against this team.
They're awesome on the attack.
Well, they got a one out man breakout machine in Schaefer.
Now, this is another thing that's going to happen today too.
There can be people that are looking at this game and they're going to compare Schaefer to Sam Dickinson.
I don't think it's fair, but I think also it's something that Dickinson can push himself toward.
Well, I'm really interested in watching Sam tonight because he did not have a good game yesterday.
I was frankly surprised he was starting in overtime.
I was shocked when he started in overtime because he wasn't handing the puck well.
But you got to learn, right?
So Ryan Rostovsky puts him out there and says, okay, see if you can work your way through it.
Doesn't work his way through it.
Tonight, I'm really interested to see what his bounce back is going to be like.
It's going to be really fascinating.
And of course, I would expect that we're going to see Elias Sarokin in net.
I don't think Big Save Dave is going to be in goal this time.
Semion Varlamov has been injured, so he's not an issue.
But the islanders have built their franchise over the years on having good defensive players.
So this is a different kind of a team.
It's more electrifying with the likes of Schaefer on the team.
They just picked up Braden Shen.
Didn't even have to change hotel rooms after the trade deadline.
We didn't even have to figure out where the new meal room was.
And he got a chance to meet with Patrick Wah on the staff yesterday.
I mean, they've veteran like that.
It's going to be totally integrated into this team.
He provides something that the Blues didn't have last night face-off ability.
This guy's a really good face-off man, but he also has that little edge.
He's going to play the kind of hockey that Patrick Wah wants and give the islanders,
along with Bo Horvat, some little depth up front.
He's nasty, plays on the edge, plays honest hockey, though.
He is tough.
He's a great face-off guy.
Good around the net.
I've known Braden for a long time.
I'm wondering, wondering, and I want to see if Darren Stevens, our stats expert,
can find it.
If ever in the history of the game, brothers were traded on the same day.
It's an interesting question.
I think the answer might be yes, because weren't the Sutter twins traded
kind of around the same.
I think maybe you've got to figure that a Sutter was involved in that.
Brother Luke went from Winnipeg to Buffalo.
So really interesting.
Both guys are going to get a chance to be in the playoffs, and both guys are very good
to play.
I've known him forever.
Bottom line is that not much change since yesterday's morning skate show.
Yes, the sharks did trade Tim Lilligerin right after we were off the air.
Best wishes to him.
He was a really good teammate, and everybody loved him.
He's going to help Washington.
And in the meantime, the sharks will have a recall today.
We'll see who it is.
I mean, Nolan Allen's played well.
Lucas Carlson's played well.
The T.S. haveled has played well.
One of those guys will be recalled to be the seventh day.
We're on the air at 630, and it should be a good one.
Yeah, we better be a good one because the sharks need the points.
We'll see what happens.
Scott Hanon joins me on the air today with the sharks and the islanders.
Until then, that's the morning skate show today.
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