The Sharks continue their winning ways against Anaheim and the Kings at home, but lose huge at the Pond.   Mike and Doug try to find the correct perspective for this game, try and guess who their first round opponent might be, and talk about what it means to be a Stemmer.

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The Sharks again embarrassed an opponent last night, just crushing the Kings 6-1. As you can see in our twitter feed to the right (woo hoo! new features!) the Sharks should have been a giant favorite, mostly because the Kings were missing their top two scorers. The Sharks had five players on the ice with more points than their top scorer last night, Dustin Brown.

And yet, there’s room for improvement. Check out this great post by Justin Bourne writing on the Puck Daddy blog.  For whatever reason, he uses film clips almost exclusively from last night’s game to show what not to do, and our own Joe Thornton was the object of one lesson.  I’m sure the coaches saw these, and I’d like to think corrections will be made.  Even in my beer league leaving guys all alone in the slot is reason for derision.

We’ll be recording and posting the podcast tomorrow night after the Ducks game.

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As us Dudes thought, the Sharks top junior prospect, Taylor Doherty, has been reassigned to Worcester for the remainder of the AHL season for their playoff push. His OHL junior team, Kingston, lost their first round match up and he was already signed to an entry level deal. We’ve seen this move before by the Sharks with Logan Couture in the past and it’s a good opportunity to see him play with grown men. I would imagine he’ll play immediately and it’s not impossible that the kid will be brought up to San Jose for the Stanley Cup playoffs if Worcester is eliminated, not to play but to give him a taste of the NHL good life.

Doherty is the most intriguing Sharks prospect for me. He has incredible size and skill for a towering kid of 6’8. Can he develop into Tyler Myers, or will he be an American version of our favorite whipping-boy, Mr. Semenov? This will be a small glimpse into how he handles himself on the professional level.

The Dudes only have one game to talk about- the 6-0 pasting of the Stars – but they do it with relish.  Now that the season is finally winding down, it’s time to talk about possible first round matchups in the east and west, who will likely be playing when everyone gets healthy again, and of course, listener emails.

Note:  I’m experimenting with lower encodings, this week’s show was encoded at 64kB because of a request to make the file smaller.  I want to see if this measurably affects audio quality.

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