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| DATE | OPPONENT | SCORE | NOTES | RECORD |
| Feb. 17, 1994 | Quebec Nordiques | L 8-2 | First game ever went to... future Shark Mike Ricci scores FIVE goals for Quebec. Irbe was pulled, but Jimmy Waite gave up two goals in four shots and Irbe came back in. Scott Young also scored for Quebec. | 0-1-0 |
| Nov. 23, 1996 | Anaheim Mighty Ducks | L 3-0 | Warren Rychel somehow scored in this game... Brian Bellows and Dmitri Mironov make their Anaheim debuts... Lots of penalties | 0-2-0 |
| Dec. 7, 1996 | Tampa Bay Lightning | L 4-3 | Sticking with players that shouldn't be scoring goals, Cory Cross scores with a minute left in the 3rd period to give the Lightning the win... Ron Sutter scores two goals... Andrei Nazarov boards future Shark Shawn Burr face-first through the bench door and is ejected. | 0-3-0 |
| Dec. 26, 1996 | Vancouver Canucks | W 6-1 | The Nazty Boys Line with Nazarov, Viktor Kozlov, and Owen Nolan... Nazarov scores 15 seconds into the game... Mike Ridley scored for Vancouver, only to have the Sharks score five unanswered goals. Owen Nolan destroyed Corey Hirsch with a slapshot to the face, yet he stayed in the game... The infamous "<team> sucks!" lyrics are adopted into the Chicken Dance. | 1-3-0 |
| Feb. 1, 1997 | Colorado Avalanche | W 2-1 | The only time period I ever was a fan of Ed Belfour... newly acquired from Chicago, yet one of his last here, Belfour was injured in this game... Kelly Hrudey played phenomenal in relief in this thrilling afternoon contest. Goals: SJ - Friesen, Nolan; COL - Scott Young | 2-3-0 |
| Mar. 14, 1997 | Phoenix Coyotes | L 4-1 | Keith Tkafuck was just that... took a picture with the Stanley Cup during intermission... First game I ever went to that I thought sucked... Vlastimil Kroupa made a rare appearance and Bob Errey returned to the Sharks... Section 209 chants "Phoenix sucks!" to a song, which I still do today. | 2-4-0 |
| Apr. 2, 1997 | Anaheim Mighty Ducks | T 5-5 | A very wild game... Mike Leclerc's NHL debut for Anaheim. Dan Trebil gives Anaheim a 5-4 lead late in the game... but MARTY McSORLEY ties the game with 25.5 seconds to go!! | 2-4-1 |
| Sept. 18, 1997 | Vancouver Canucks | W 7-3 | PRESEASON - The retarded "GO SHARKS!" song is introduuced, sadly... Sharks new organist debuted and the old one was WAY better... Brad Ference of Vancouver was ejected fairly quickly into the game for attacking Andrei Zyuzin... Sharks Goals: Nolan (2), Granato, Kozlov, Matteau, Sutter, McSorley. | 3-4-1 |
| Jan. 10, 1998 | Buffalo Sabres | W 5-2 | A fun game... Mike Ricci, now a SHARK, scores on future Shark goalie Steve Shields... a fight breaks out in the stands at the end of the game, right when Randy Burridge scored for Buffalo. | 4-4-1 |
| Jan. 23, 1998 | Edmonton Oilers | W 3-2 | Awesome game! Sharks came from behind, scoring twice in the third, to win it... the usher at the entrance right by our seats just happened to be a guy Joel's mom had a couple of dates with... Stupid Gary Radnich called Dean McAmmond "Dean MACK-uh-mund" after the game. | 5-4-1 |
| Apr. 7, 1998 | Calgary Flames | W 6-0 | I gave Flames goalie Rick Tabaracci the nickname "Canadian Jumping Bean" because he was jumping up on every shot... he gives up three goals and Dwayne Roloson gives up three in relief... This game is the reason why I say that Jarome Iginla is a dirty player... Iginla was hitting players after the play all night long, including hitting Al Iafrate from behind, flipping the 240-pounder completely over. | 6-4-1 |
| Nov. 18, 1998 | Los Angeles Kings | W 5-4 | Tony Granato is my hero... Manny Legace suffers his first NHL loss for the Kings, as the ex-King Granato scored his second goal late in the game. | 7-4-1 |
| Jan. 9, 1999 | Buffalo Sabres | T 2-2 | A truly horrid game because of officiating... fuck you Dave Jackson... Ron Sutter is ejected for slashing Rob Ray on the ankle after Ray hit him face-first into the boards... Ray then makes crude gestures at Brantt Myhres about his alcoholism... Rob Ray has no class, especially when his own teammate Erik Rasmussen had been in drug rehab the year before. | 7-4-2 |
| Mar. 2, 2000 | Nashville Predators | W 4-3 | Memorable for a few reasons... the glass broke THREE times (after never having once at a prior game I'd been to), including the piece that separates the benches, which they could not replace because that piece has probably never broken ever... the other reason is that it was the Sharks first come-from-behind victory since the Edmonton game I went to ironically. Evgeny Nabokov got his first NHL win, in relief of Steve Shields... Nabokov made just TWO saves in his 25+ minutes of playing time. | 8-4-2 |
| Mar. 15, 2000 | Buffalo Sabres | W 6-5 (OT) | Up until the final game of the 2003-04 season, this had been the greatest comeback victory of all-time! I bought my ticket that day... The game actually sucked and I got a migraine during it... Owen Nolan scored his 44th goal of the year, shorthanded... Then Marco Sturm scored shorthanded on the same penalty-kill... Only to have Doug Gilmour and Geoff Sanderson score two goals in 8 seconds to tie the game back up... Buffalo scored in the first minute of both the second and third periods... The Sabres were up 5-3 when Tony Granato scored with 8 minutes left in the third period... In the final minute of the third period, the Sharks had major trouble pulling Steve Shields for the extra skater... the Sharks dumped the puck deep... Vaclav Varada tried to clear the puck, but it was knocked down by Niklas Sundstrom, who passed to Vincent Damphousse... Damphousse backhanded it up over Dominik Hasek with 28.6 seconds left to tie the game!!! It was the first time I'd ever jumped up and down for a goal at a game, and it would not be the last. "The Final Countdown" by Europe, played during overtime intermission... whenever you hear that song, the home team ALWAYS wins in overtime... It's a given fact! Curtis Brown had multiple odd-man rushes for Buffalo in overtime, but was denied. Gary Suter and Nolan had breakaways but were both stopped as well. Finally, after a faceoff in the Sabres end, the Sharks played the puck behind the net... Marcus Ragnarsson was somehow wide open in front of the net and I was screaming for Sundstrom to pass to him... but as Hasek played Ragnarsson, Jeff Friesen came flying in from the point and received the pass... as Randy Hahn called it... "GGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOAAAAALLLLLLLLLL!!!! The Sharks winnnnnnnnn!!" I've only heard that building louder one time... and I will get to that later... But the length of the noise was like none other. You could not hear the goal announcement in the arena, you could not hear the Three Stars of the Night be announced. It was THAT LOUD and THAT LONG! The next day, David Bennett asked me why I was going so ballistic the next day in French class... he had turned the game off when it was 5-3. | 9-4-2 |
| Sept. 16, 2000 | Anaheim
Mighty Ducks
preseason |
W 2-1 | The night I gained faith in Miikka Kiprusoff... amazing performance... I was pretty mad though because I missed Tony Granato's 1-0 goal in the first period... the first time I'd ever missed seeing a goal at a game I'd been to... Quote: "Jonathan Cheechoo can't play worth shit, but at least he hits everything he sees." | 10-4-2 |
| Jan. 9, 2001 | Buffalo Sabres | W 2-1 | Pretty boring game, which was sad because I was sitting in Row 14 at center ice. | 11-4-2 |
| Feb. 1, 2001 | Dallass Stars | L 4-2 | My 11-game unbeaten streak came to an end... Sharks did not play all that well, but I had fun because I took Scarlett to the game... and I got to boo the hell out of Ed Belfour... officiating was terrible... Stars' goon Grant Marshall boarded Owen Nolan from behind in, received a five-minute major penalty, yet NO game-misconduct, which is supposed to be automatic! Later in the first period, Nolan was skating to the bench and Grant Marshall skated in his path... Nolan elbowed Marshall and was thrown out of the game! Marshall laid on the ice for over five minutes, got up, and didn't even leave the fucking game! BIG ASS DIVER! Nolan was suspended seven or eight games for that shit... Sharks went on a slump and lost the Pacific Division title, no less, to Dallass. | 11-5-2 |
| Mar. 10, 2001 | Nashville Predators | L 3-0 | Nashville played well defensively and the Sharks sucked. Teemu Selanne had just been traded to the Sharks, but was injured and had not played a game yet... I don't want to talk about this game anymore. | 11-6-2 |
| Mar. 22, 2001 | Ottawa Senators | L 2-1 | André Roy head-hunted Owen Nolan all night... Teemu Selanne finally played, but was slumping... Sharks more than doubled Ottawa's shot total, but none of them were quality chances... Patrick Marleau scored with 14.1 seconds left, the Sharks finally decided they wanted to play well those last 14 seconds, but lost because they had not played hard the previous 59:46... Suddenly I have a 3-game LOSING streak. | 11-7-2 |
| Mar. 29, 2001 | Anaheim Mighty Ducks | W 7-4 | Not only did this game save myself from having a losing record for the year, it was also the first of three straight home games that I went to, ALL of which I hadn't even planned to go to... Evgeny Nabokov was pulled in the first period after giving up three goals... long-time Shark Jeff Friesen got an assist on Paul Kariya's first goal... Kariya had a hat trick...Sharks losing 3-1 after the first period... Here comes the onslaught! Mike Ricci scores... Tony Granato is shoved into Jean-Sebastien Giguere by Paul Kariya (not that Granato was exactly trying to get out of the way). Giguere attacks Granato and loses his focus... Seconds after the next faceoff, Owen Nolan slaps one from behind the blue line and scores to tie the game and the arena becomes a madhouse... Onslaught continues... Alexander Korolyuk scores... Teemu Selanne finally gets his first goal as a Shark... I jump up and down for the third time ever... then in the third period, Bryan Marchment shot a puck wide, Selanne was behind the net and shoots it off the back of Giguere's leg and in the net! More jumping by me... Selanne completes the hat trick by shooting an empty-net goal from the defensive zone faceoff dot... Tons of hats litter the ice and I'm still jumping for joy... Niklas Sundstrom had four assists... Scott Thornton had the other Sharks goal... The Sharks scored on all three powerplays that Pavel Trnka took penalties on and finished 4 for 6... Miikka Kiprusoff's first NHL win, after he had relieved Nabokov. | 12-7-2 |
| Apr. 2, 2001 | Minnesota Wild | W 4-2 | Minnesota came in with the worst power-play in the league, yet scored twice... Pascal Dupuis made his NHL debut for the Wild and scored... I was given tickets in the 8th row, behind Nabokov... it was incredible! Andy Sutton of the Wild hit Todd Harvey and I could actually read his lips, saying "Ooh that was a good hit."... Sharks scored three goals in the third period on Jamie McLennan to come from behind... Selanne had two of them. | 13-7-2 |
| Apr. 5, 2001 | Phoenix Coyotes | W 3-0 | Vice-principal Mr. Heller gave me a ticket to the game! Teemu Selanne had two MORE goals... I'd now seen all seven in person... Sean Burke didn't stand a chance in net for Phoenix... Sharks clinched a playoff spot with that win. | 14-7-2 |
| Jan. 17, 2002 | New York Islanders | W 3-2 | Sharks dominated early, but were dominated in the second half... Marcus Ragnarsson was out with injury and Shawn Heins was in the lineup, only to have his jaw broken in a fight with Jim Cummins... I'd never noticed how big Oleg Kvasha was... Goals: SJ - Thornton, Ricci, Sturm; NYI - Peca | 15-7-2 |
| Jan. 21, 2002 | Edmonton Oilers | W 4-3 | As all Sharks/Oilers games tend to be, this was a close, action-filled game... Brad Stuart scored 52 seconds into the game because Tommy Salo punched the puck into his own net during a scramble... It got wild in the third period when Todd Harvey scored to give the Sharks a 3-2 lead... the referee said that behind the net had been tilting when the goal happened, it should not count, despite the fact that the OILER tilting the net had nothing to do with the puck going in... Sean Brown scored for Edmonton, so now they were suddenly up 3-2... but the next shift Mike Ricci tied the game... a couple of minutes later, in a scramble off the draw, Scott Hannan scored the eventual-winning goal, his first goal of the season... I was jumping hysterically, half for the goal, and half yelling at the fucking referee... problem was that I had been screaming at the ref so much throughout the game that I pinched a nerve in my neck. | 16-7-2 |
| Mar. 16, 2002 | Chicago Blackhawks | T 2-2 | San Jose took the Blackhawks lightly, so Miikka Kiprusoff had to come up with 35 saves in the tie... Matt Bradley batted a puck out of mid-air and scored the first Shark goal... Steve Sullivan scored with something like 19 seconds remaining, causing the tie... In overtime, Blackhawk defenseman Steve Poapst lost his balance retrieving the puck and slid straight into goalie Steve Passmore... Passmore had to make a save on his own guy, keeping the puck out of the net as his player crashed into him... a very dissatisfying tie. | 16-7-3 |
| Mar. 26, 2002 | Dallas Stars | W 3-2 | People that saw me probably thought I was drunk with the amount of intense emotion I had in this game... I was all over Ed Belfour from the pre-game skate, all the way through the whole game... these old people in front of me were getting annoyed, but that was their own fault... if you're going to a Sharks/Stars game and you're annoyed by screaming, then you shouldn't be there at all... Patrick Marleau played awesome and snapped a 16-game goalless drought... Scott Thornton had an amazing deflection for a goal... Matt Bradley went for a hit and went through the door leading to the visitor's locker room entrance.. The game was great and I have the FOX and ESPN telecasts on tape... I got to talk with Tony Granato after the game, who I happened to see walking up the steps to the broadcast booth. | 17-7-3 |
| May 13, 2002 | Colorado
Avalanche
PLAYOFFS - GAME 6 |
L 2-1 (OT) | The earthquake game! I was one of the first people in the arena, arriving 90 minutes early for my first ever playoff game... and was sitting in drunk section 209 for the first time! Around 6:15, I heard and felt some rumbling, but couldn't figure out what it was... The game was awesome... I was screaming like crazy and 209 said I could come back anytime I wanted... During the third period, at 10:02 PM, I heard that same rumbling from before, still not knowing what it was... A few minutes later, it was announced that we had experienced a 5.1 earthquake... the lower level hadn't felt it, but we in the upper level sure did! Stinkin Peter Forsberg ended up winning in overtime because Gary Suter didn't cover his man... Sharks wound up also losing Game 7 and the series, but this game was still very very good. | 17-8-3 |
| Dec. 26, 2002 | Anaheim Mighty Ducks | W 4-1 | The '02-'03 season was horrific for the Sharks, yet somehow they never lost any of the games that I went to... Owen Nolan had two nice goals and Teemu Selanne scored a goal despite breaking his stick on the shot. | 18-8-3 |
| Jan. 16, 2003 | Buffalo Sabres | T 2-2 | The game was decent but I did not have fun because people around me were getting on my nerves. Jonathan Cheechoo blasted the hell out of the puck for the second goal... didn't I say earlier that the guy had no skill? Why does James Patrick always score against the Sharks? | 18-8-4 |
| Feb. 24, 2003 | Calgary Flames | W 5-2 | It was ex-Sharks coach Darryl Sutter's return to San Jose and he got a standing ovation every time he came out of the locker room... The Sharks kicked major ass... Teemu Selanne had two goals, Dimitrakos and Marco had two assists... Matt Bradley had a good fight with Steve Montador, who was thrown out of the game for not having his jersey tied down. | 19-8-4 |
| Mar. 21, 2003 | Boston Bruins | W 3-2 | The Vesa Toskala show was sensational! He got his first NHL win, meaning that I was in person for Nabby's, Kipper's, and Vesa's first wins... ex-Shark Mike Sullivan's first game as coach of the Bruins... Vinny Damphousse had two goals and an assist on Marco Sturm's goal... 3-0-1 in the season from hell! | 20-8-4 |
| Nov. 15, 2003 | Toronto Maple Leafs | T 2-2 | Owen Nolan's return to San Jose after being traded to the Leafs the season before... the Sharks sucked until the third period, when they scored two quick goals to start the period... From there, Leafs goalie Mikael Tellqvist saved their asses because the Sharks completely dominated... I say Tellqvist because Ed Belfour pussied out and didn't play, as he is prone to doing every time he comes to San Jose... Christian Ehrhoff's assist was his first NHL point. | 20-8-5 |
| Dec. 11, 2003 | Edmonton Oilers | T 2-2 | Row 7 baby! These seats were given to me the day before the game... typical Oilers/Sharks awesome game... very physical and fiesty... Evgeny Nabokov returned from an injury and made 42 saves... Patrick Marleau scored both Shark goals... Ty Conklin held the fort down, despite not holding rebounds down too... The Sharks should have won, but a tie was fine. | 20-8-6 |
| Dec. 29, 2003 | Nashville Predators | W 5-2 | I went to this game as part of this group thing that I signed up for and got to take my girlfriend too... as the '04-'05 season moved on, it seemed like the games I was going to were getting better and better... two play-of-the-year-caliber goals were scored... Marleau had one of them as he deked through everyone and got around goalie Tomas Vokoun... After Vokoun gave up three in the first, Chris Mason came in for Nashville... I found it cool because I had run into him during the group outing that day, and talked to him briefly... The "Beavers" (as the little kid behind me called them) came back to make it 3-2 in the third period, but Nils Ekman decided he wanted his own amazing goal... Shorthanded, Ekman broke up the left side, stopped in mid-stride, the defenseman went sliding right past him and out of the play, Ekman deked and scored... The most annoying thing came after the game, when I'd gotten home to find that my mom had shut the VCR off while I was recording the game! ARGH! | 21-8-6 |
| Feb. 27, 2004 | Pittsburgh Penguins | W 4-2 | The Sharks had a goal disallowed about 30 seconds into the game because the fucking ref, Shane Heyer, didn't see the puck go in! He was sitting in the back of the net for two full seconds before he blew the whistle, then said it didn't go in until after he's blown the play dead. Let me ask you something Heyer, how would you know that when you blew the play dead from the BLUE LINE!? The rest of the period, they sat back and let Pittsburgh come at them... but in the second period, the Sharks got going... my boy Tommy Preissing, who'd been one of my favorites since I met him at training camp, came back from a concussion and scored his second NHL goal... Milan Kraft scored with only about 20 seconds left, so the final score was virutally 4-1. | 22-8-6 |
| Mar. 28, 2004 | Dallas Stars | W 2-1 (OT) | The most amazing game I've ever been to! High intensity to the max... it's just too bad Ed Belfour's not on Dallas anymore... Just like in the Pittsburgh game, the boneheaded ref disallowed a goal 50 seconds in because he said it hadn't crossed the line before his blew it dead... While this play was closer, the round black thing sitting in the net normally should be an indication that a goal has been scored... After Pierre Turgeon scored for Dallas, Nils Ekman tallied one of his own... In the third period, Wayne Primeau was skating up shorthanded, made a deke, causing defenseman Trevor Daley to fall flat on his ass, but Marty Turco made the stop... Primeau got his revenge in overtime, skating down the right side with Ekman on his left... Primeau's wrist shot handcuffed Turco and the Sharks won in overtime! The whole arena went into a frenzy! Primeau was teary-eyed and I think I was too... The Sharks gained 100 points for the first time in history and clinched the division title that night! The atmosphere was like winning the Stanley Cup! "Rock & Roll Part 2" played TWICE before the players left the rink and the three stars were announced... On the concourse of the arena and out on the street, it was just pandemonium with Sharks fans making as much noise as they possibly could! | 23-8-6 |
| May 13, 2004 | Calgary
Flames
PLAYOFF RALLY @ HP - GAME 3 |
W 3-0 | A couple thousand people filed into HP Pavilion to watch Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals on the jumbotron... it was a good time and I met some cool people, but it was hard to see things on the screen... the Junior Sharks entertained everyone with a scrimmage during first intermission, that was honestly better than the actual Sharks game... it was really really good! Nabokov, Damphousse, and Korolyuk led the Sharks to victory. | 24-8-6 |
| May 17, 2004 | Calgary
Flames
PLAYOFFS - GAME 5 |
L 3-0 | Only good thing about this game was that I traded tickets with a chick and moved to seats that were twice as expensive (and it was her idea too believe it or not!)... Worst game ever... Enough said. | 24-9-6 |
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