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San Jose Sharks
vs
Nashville Predators
Today's Featured Sports Pick

Game Date:
02/06/2016
8:05pm EST

Lines:
San Jose +1.5
Nashville -1.5

Total:
Over 5 (-144)
Under 5 (+130)

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San Jose Sharks and Nashville Predators Thread

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Nashville Predators
February 05, 2016 4:26:pm EST
San Jose Sharks
Legendary Florida Panthers forward Jaromir Jagr has shown no signs of slowing down since playing two 20-minute periods of 3-on-3 hockey at the NHL’s All-Star Game.  On Thursday against the Detroit Red Wings, Jagr picked up an assist to give him 1,100 in his long and illustrious NHL career. Jagr, who turns 44 later this month is one of six players in NHL history with at least 1,100 helpers. The play came on a goal by forward Brandon Pirri. Jagr ranks behind Wayne Gretzky (1,963), Ron Francis (1,249), Mark Messier (1,193), Ray Bourque (1,169), and Paul Coffey (1,135). The next closest active player is San Jose Sharks forward Joe Thornton, who has 933 helpers. Jagr picked up another assist on a Vincent Trochek goal. With the two assists, Jagr trails Detroit Red Wings forward Gordie Howe by 12 points for third on the league’s all-time scoring list. Jagr has 1,838 to Howe’s 1,850. The next highest active player is also Thornton, who had 1,300 heading into Thursday's action. The Panthers currently lead the Atlantic Division with 65 points, five more than the second-place Tampa Bay Lightning.  MORE FROM YAHOO HOCKEY - - - - - - - Josh Cooper is an editor for Puck Daddy on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @joshuacooper   Continue to Article
February 04, 2016 9:09:pm EST
Nashville Predators
The NHL suspended Calgary Flames defenseman Dennis Wideman 20 games Wednesday for cross-checking a linesman during a game last week. Wideman was suspended for violating the league rule on physical abuse of officials after he struck linesman Don Henderson and knocked him down during the Flames' game against Nashville on Jan. 27. The 32-year-old will forfeit $564,516 in salary as a result of the suspension, which is the second-longest in NHL history for abusing an official. Continue to Article
February 03, 2016 3:04:pm EST
San Jose Sharks
ANAHEIM – Group texts went back and forth between San Jose Sharks players during the NHL All-Star Skills Competition and NHL All-Star Game. Mostly they were about former teammate John Scott and how the hulking enforcer who spent the 2014-15 season in San Jose was handling the weekend. Not often do hockey players pay much attention to the All-Star festivities. A lot are on vacation and try to get away from the game. But Scott, who was voted into the game as a Pacific Division captain with an internet fan vote , left a large impact on the Sharks’ room. Enough to where Pacific Division teammates Joe Pavelski and Brent Burns carried Scott off the ice after their team won the 3-on-3 competition, along with $1 million to be distributed to the group.  During the three days in Nashville, it felt like he was more a part of the Sharks than any team in the league. Scott was traded from the Arizona Coyotes to the Montreal Canadiens after his selection to the game . Since the deal he had been in the minors with Montreal’s AHL affiliate, the St. John’s IceCaps. “Johnny … it was great to see that,” Sharks defenseman Justin Braun said. “He was a great teammate while he was here and to see that turn out the way it did couldn’t have gone any better.” Sharks players had a reaction to most parts of Scott’s weekend. From the skills competition – where he wore an All-Star jersey while the rest of his teammates wore team jerseys – where he took part in the hardest shot, to the game itself where he scored two goals, the weekend left a mark on his former teammates. His first goal, where he reacted with a mega celebration seemed to draw the most attention. “Just to see him get that one and the big celebration and everything with Pavelski and Burns being out there for it, just a great moment for everyone involved,” Braun said.   The oddness of Scott’s place in the game was apparent to the Sharks – especially in the skills competition where he looked out of place in his jersey. Scott received a standing ovation from the Bridgestone Arena crowd before the hardest shot. “It was a unique situation there and we’d like to have seen him in some type of colors. It’s not easy being that guy, I’m sure,” Pavelski said. “He had to wear the NHL jersey in the skills competition and he handled it great. That’s his personality and that’s the type of guy he is, so it was fun.” Players weren’t surprised at how Scott tried to make the weekend as fun as possible and took it in stride. That’s the way he was when he played for the Sharks last season. He scored three goals – a career high – in 38 games in San Jose. Former teammate Mike Brown liked how Scott cracked up when the Nashville fans booed a stone-faced Patrick Kane. “That’s typical John Scott right there,” Brown said. “He starts doing that and you start laughing also, so he’ll get you going like that.” Even people who weren’t with the Sharks when Scott was there could sense a vibe around the player and what he meant to San Jose. “It also gave me a real idea of what I already had heard of what a respected guy this guy was around the room and the team here and the time he spent here,” first-year Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said. “That spoke volumes about the impact he had on this group when he was here last year.” MORE FROM YAHOO HOCKEY - - - - - - - Josh Cooper is an editor for Puck Daddy on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @joshuacooper         Continue to Article
February 02, 2016 4:17:pm EST
San Jose Sharks
NASHVILLE – When you have the hero’s journey of John Scott, Jaromir Jagr wigs, Chewbacca masks and a goalie making saves with a guitar, the actual NHL All-Star Game itself might have been overshadowed a bit.  But the NHL nailed it. It really did. The 3-on-3 format not only worked this season, but showed good potential for being the format that finally figured out how to take a moribund event and inject both excitement and drama into it. Along with putting the skill of the NHL’s best and brightest on display, of course. The genesis of the 3-on-3 format was a desire from the NHL and the NHLPA to go in a different direction after last season’s unwatchable game in Columbus ; and from Nashville Predators officials to have something new as the hosts of the 2016 game. “We sat down and we said that we don’t seem to be getting the bang for our buck at All-Star. Let’s reevaluate what we’re trying to do at All-Star,” said Mathieu Schneider, special assistant to the executive director of the NHLPA. “Everyone was in agreement that it needs to be something special and unique. It should be a great weekend for hockey, and it hasn’t seemed to be translating like that for the last few years.” The Predators had a hefty investment in All-Star Weekend, and the last thing the team wanted was for the lingering bad taste of the previous All-Star Game to dampen the enthusiasm for theirs. “We felt very strongly that we wanted to make this the best All-Star Game ever. There was negative feedback about the All-Star Game, so why not make a change?” said Predators GM David Poile last November. “And once we saw the 3-on-3 overtime format … for most hockey guys, general mangers or owners of the clubs as well as the players, we thought it was time to try something different and make it special.” It was different, and it was special. Here are six reasons the new NHL All-Star Game format was a blockbuster success: Continue to Article
February 01, 2016 12:59:pm EST
 
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