As we head into tonight’s game against the streaking, in the wrong direction, St. Louis Blues – I noticed an interesting trend in the early NHL season schedule. The Sharks have drawn three teams on the 2nd game of a back to back after the other team has visited the Anaheim “Now So Mighty” Ducks. Detroit came up here and lost after playing the Ducks last week, we get St. Louis tonight after getting crushed by the Ducks last night and Dallas will make their first appearance at the Tank this year on Saturday after playing Friday night against….yup – the Ducks. The great part about all these games is the Sharks have been sitting on their butts, watching Must See TV the night before and waiting for the road weary club to stroll into town so they can hammer them.

I expect the Sharks to continue their home dominance tonight against the Blues. Last years team would been caught napping on one of these lay up games, but it appears this will not happen under McLellan’s watch, or at least not at home. I don’t think we’ll see Boucher tonight. Nabby’s finally got his groove back and has played well the last few games, so why break up the momentum.

I predict a 4-1 Sharks win and J.R’s first goal of the season tonight. Go Sharks!