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The center of the Sharks look to make it three straight wins as they host the Montreal
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Of course, you can watch on YouTube as well, and we're going to get you ready for tonight's
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Sharks Canadians game as big game for both the San Jose Sharks and the Canadians as both
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teams firmly in the playoff race in the Sharks, trying to gain some momentum and climb
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ever closer to that wild card two-spot.
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So look at how these two teams match up.
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Of course, get to know the cadets a little bit more, look at projected lines, and then
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of course, what to watch for in this game.
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That's again, the Sharks try to make it three straight, try to close that gap for wild
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So let's get started by looking at how these two teams match up.
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Montreal, Canadians, 33, 17, and 9-year San Jose Sharks, 29, 25, and 4.
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Canadians, offense, very good, 3.49 goals for per game, fourth in the NHL, the goals
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have 3.20, 24th in the NHL, Powerplay, sorry for the Sharks, 3.05 goals, 18th, goals
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a lot, 3.47, 30th in the NHL.
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Special teams, Montreal, Canadians, Powerplay is insane, 24.3% fourth best in the NHL,
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the PK though is 77.125th in the NHL, Sharks Powerplay, 19.6%, 18th in the PK, 78.9, 19th.
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Rafael leads the Canadians with goals 35, Suzuki has 49 assists, him and Hudson both are
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tied there, and then Suzuki has 68 points leading the way.
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Celebrity, of course, leads in all categories, 29 goals, 54 assists in 83 total points for
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Celebrity, it doesn't score another point all season long, point per game player, so congrats
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This Canadians team is very good, they are second in their division when it comes to
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point per game, sixth in the NHL, they are driven by their offense, they do a good job
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of, they do above average job of creating expectations for them, but they are good at finishing
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and you would expect that, especially with guys like Sapkowski, Caulfield, Patrick Lina,
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who I know is probably going to get moved by Friday, but they have a lot of guys who
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can finish for them.
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Expecting goals against their pretty kind of middle of the pack when it comes to not
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allowing goals, but the goal technique has been a bit of a disappointment for them this
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year and they have kind of run through a bunch of different goal tenders to try to find
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a solution, so they are kind of in the middle of the pack when it comes to, you know, creating
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slash allowing goals, but again they are very much popped up by their shooting percentage
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which you would expect with all the talent that they have, especially in the offense there.
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You know, you have Demodov, you have Caulfield, you have so many guys who can score and this
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power play has been absolutely lethal for them.
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It's funny, like looking at the numbers quickly here, the numbers are pretty similar to
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the Edmonton Oilers, like when you look at the total offense, the defense, like all
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the special teams are very similar to the Oilers, but you feel like the Canadians, if they
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can get their goal tending, which feels like it's an easier solution for them with some
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of their in-house options, especially with Valor coming along here, that they could be
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that kind of next big, like they're well in their way to being a long term contending
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team here, so and they have plenty of ammo to do whatever they want.
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With the lines for the Canadians, Caulfield, Suzuki, Doc, Safkavsky, Cappanin, Demodov,
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New Hook, Evans, Bulldoke, Anderson, Denou, Gallagher for the forward group there.
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So a couple of guys to keep an eye on here.
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Of course we know the big names right, Caulfield, Suzuki, Demodov, who's, you know, had a good
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season this year as a rookie, you know, they have to know who they just required, re-acquired
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So plenty of players, you know, to keep an eye on here, but that middle six, especially
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the center, the Cappanin, Evans, that kind of, they're, they're, they're bugaboo right
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now as they're trying to find out ways to improve that area.
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Defensively, Matheson, Gull, Hudson, Dobson, and then Strubel, Carrier, and then I'm
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not sure if it's going to be dobs or Montable in net for them tonight, so we haven't, as
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I'm recording this, no confirmation on the gold tender for them.
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Four-year standards in Sharks, Smith, Celebrini, Graf has put back together, so we have the
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NCAA line, Equal and Misa Tafoli, Sherwood, Wenberg, Kyrgyzhev, Goudro O'Sophtuk, Godet,
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so Godet comes in for Pavel Regenda, sorry, the Regenda Agenda, we have to put that
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away for at least another game.
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And then, defensively, Orlov Klingberg, Farrow, Mughamadoulin, Tickinson, Day Arenays, and
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Ascrop is the expected starter, so we do have the NCAA line put back together.
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We have Sherwood playing with Wenberg, we did see at the end of last game, we'll see
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how long that continues and what, you know, as we continue to monitor the Sherwood situation.
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So we're going to talk about Sherwood, we're going to talk about what to watch for in this
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game, and why I think to the Sharks, if they continue to play the way that they've been
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playing, they're going to have a good chance to win.
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So we'll give to that in just one second.
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All right, what to watch for in this game, and the sharks, this continues to be a big
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game, right, the kind of the goal coming out of the Olympic break was six points out
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of the possible eight, you blew the flames game, you got four points this weekend over
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the oilers and over the jets, and it comes about your own, and Montreal is a very good team,
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it's a good team, right?
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You can pull out this one, you're going to feel way better than how you felt coming out
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of that flames game when the season was over, get the trash bags, throw away the season,
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all that fun stuff, big test though.
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I think though for San Jose and what we have seen in these three games post-Elympics
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is they have outplayed their opponents for the most part in these games, right?
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The first two periods of the flames game, they, they outplayed the flames and Dustin Wolf
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shut them down, and then the third period, they kind of crumbled in that game.
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Oilers, they outplayed the oilers for majority of that game, and then the jets kind of
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the same thing, they outplayed the jets and Connor Hellebuck was just like he was extraordinary
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in that game, and they were able to come back and complete this game.
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Montreal, this is going to be a much, I think this game is going to be a lot like the oilers
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game where it's going to be much more back and forth between the two, but they don't have
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that guy in net that makes you feel like he can just steal a game.
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And you know, as soon as I say this, Montreal is going to shut out the sharks tonight,
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but they don't, I don't feel like they, right now they have a, that game stealing type
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So, I actually think this, this is going to be a little bit of a high score and a fair
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given how both teams want to play, right?
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Both teams want to kind of get up and down, they want to score goals, they want to put pressure
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on the other team to kind of keep up.
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I think the defenses for both are, you know, a little suspect, and I think the goal
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tending for both teams, little suspect as well.
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Even with Ask In Net, he is still prone as a guy who's played 53 NHL games.
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He is going prone to give up soft goals.
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We've seen it, right?
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There's no, it's just, it is what it is right now.
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For a, a rookie goal tender.
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So I think this is a game where it could get, I think this could be a really fun like five
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to four back and fourth type of an affair.
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And we've seen both teams very good in these over time situations, like Kalkoffield, insane
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Don't let that man get the puck.
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Mac and Selbrini, how many times have we seen Selbrini do crazy stuff and over time?
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So I think this is one of those games where it's probably going to last team to score
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wins as this game, right?
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It's, it feels like one of those is either five to four and over time or five to four
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type of a fair late in the third period type of game.
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So that's what I think.
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I think if the sharks, though, can play how they have played since the exit of the,
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since returning from the limit break, I think this team can keep up, right?
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And we've seen, you know, like Selbrini has been, been solved, but we haven't seen
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that big Selbrini game since his return, you know, I've, I've spoken about the Miesel
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I've spoken about Eklin, where I think Eklin is overdue for a bit of a scoring barrage
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K for sure would this, this feels like kind of a nice put up or shut up type of game
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People are like, it's only been four games for him, you know, and scoring isn't everything.
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If you want 30 million dollars, man, you got to show me something, especially for all
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the ice time that you were getting, we talked better on today's episode.
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This, I feel like sure what gets his first point today, I think Eklin scores.
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And I think the sharks win a nail bite or five to four in this game.
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I think it's going to be your, I think it's going to be one of those super fun games
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that we're, we're very excited after the game.
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So that's my prediction.
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I think you, you got to say, you got to know dumb penalties.
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I'm looking at you, key for sure would and Phil Kershev have had some really dumb penalties
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because this Canadian team will make you pay and right, you have to be able to take advantage
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of your opportunities.
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I think the sharks are going, they've been doing a good job of generating opportunities
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and they've had outstanding goal tending, kind of shut that down.
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I don't think that's going to be the case that I think very much over in the, the goals
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So that's going to be it for me.
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We'll be back tonight.
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We'll have some fun recapping this game.
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