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SJHN Daily: Vlasic Is Sharks’ Nominee for Masterton, Ferraro for Clancy
Marc-Edouard Vlasic is the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy nominee for the Professional Hockey Writers Association’s San Jose chapter this year.
The award, given out since 1968, recognizes the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey in a player. Connor Ingram of the Arizona Coyotes and Kris Letang of the Pittsburgh Penguins are the past two winners.
Vlasic sits 16th on the list of games played for a single organization, with all 1,319 for the San Jose Sharks, and returned from an injury early in the season to play 23 games so far this year.
He actually missed all of training camp and half the season, but for months, the San Jose Sharks great kept grinding, in his quest to come back.
“I’ve played a lot of games, loved every moment of it,” Vlasic told the Mercury News. “I’m just enjoying myself.”
At San Jose Hockey Now…
Will Smith scored twice in the Sharks loss to the Flames.
Brock Otten of McKeen’s Hockey jumped on the podcast and spoke about Quentin Musty and Igor Chernyshov.
Taylor Turnquist, Nico Sturm’s fiancée, revealed more about her behind-the-scenes experience at the Trade Deadline.
Quentin Musty is likely to make his professional debut this weekend: He spoke with San Jose media on Tuesday.
Mario Ferraro‘s season is over, but he avoided a worst-case scenario injury.
Macklin Celebrini scored his first-ever hat trick and Will Smith added four points in an 8-7 OT loss to the Wild, all in front of Luke Schumann.
Nikolai Kovalenko spoke about his situation.
Igor Chernyshov is joining the Barracuda.
William Eklund will play for Team Sweden at the World Championships in May.
McCarthy gave some Barracuda injury updates:
🦈Poturalski not on ice, hoping for a return last weekend of season
🦈Schuldt practiced, traveling w/ team to Coachella Valley
🦈Keane skated on his own, out tomorrow, doubtful for weekend
🦈Askarov feeling good after his return— Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) April 8, 2025
Other Sharks News…
Macklin Celebrini has tied Pat Falloon for most points by a rookie in #SJSharks history with 59. 👏#TheFutureIsTeal pic.twitter.com/RJpzbH3luq
— San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) April 10, 2025
Celebrini ended Wednesday night’s 8-7 OT loss to the Minnesota Wild with five points, giving him 62 for the season.
Brodie Brazil spoke with Ty Dellandrea.
Logan Couture unfollowed (and re-followed) the Sharks on Instagram?
18-year-old Nathan Villeneuve made his pro debut with a bang on Wednesday, taking on veteran Scott Sabourin:
Scott Sabourin beat the brakes off this dude 😮💨
— Sharks on NBCS (@NBCSSharks) April 10, 2025
But the San Jose Barracuda pulled out a big win with a 1-0 OT victory in Coachella Valley:
Filip Bystedt with the OVERTIME WINNER🔥 pic.twitter.com/XSPBqWavAi
— SJ Barracuda (@sjbarracuda) April 10, 2025
Mario Ferraro was also nominated for an NHL award:
Mario Ferraro has been named the 2024-25 @SanJoseSharks King Clancy Memorial Trophy nominee! Besides his role as the Hockey Fights Cancer ambassador, Mario gives back to #SharksTerritory in many ways. Thank you, Mario, for being a pillar in your community! pic.twitter.com/iq8Lr8HSYm
— Sharks Community (@sjscommunity) April 9, 2025
The Sharks released a video of Luke Schumann’s Make-A-Wish experience.
And the Minnesota native stopped by San Jose Sharks practice again, this time in Minnesota!
— San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) April 9, 2025
The Barracuda tried more trivia.
Yes, @NickNollen has been with the team for 9 seasons🤯 #CudaTrivia pic.twitter.com/g2hnFmkQK2
— SJ Barracuda (@sjbarracuda) April 8, 2025
Around the NHL…
Gabriel Landeskog is now on a conditioning assignment in the AHL.
Ivan Demidov signed his entry level contract with the Montreal Canadians.
NHL executive Ray Shero passed away.
Fabian Zetterlund and the Ottawa Senators qualified for the playoffs.
David Quinn stepped in for head coach Mike Sullivan during post-game media on Tuesday.
Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl are expected to return before the playoffs for the Edmonton Oilers. McDavid had three assists last night.
There were four hat tricks in the NHL last night, including Celebrini’s.
Condolences to those who knew and cared for Ray Shero. Way too young.
Nice to see Gabe Landeskog back on the ice. Have no idea what he has left — its been 3 years. I’ve always felt like he was the key ingredient in Colorado that made a talented team into a championship team. One of those players who are much more than their numbers — and his numbers were really good.
It’s a trip how Falloon… who was taken before Peter Forsberg. destroyed the WHL and did so well his rookie season just to fall off a cliff and end up having a very disappointing career. I wonder what happened?
You know, Pat Falloon actually has a cool story. He was the #2 pick behind Eric Lindros, and picked ahead of both Forsberg and Niedermayer. Widely regarded as a bust, and criticized for his lack of conditioning, Falloon bounced around the league until 2000. He even played for Davos in Switzerland for a year, and then decided to go back to his hometown and play for his hometown team, the Foxwarren Falcons in a tiny league. He was the best player in the league, and led them to SIX STRAIGHT CHAMPIONSHIPS!! So, yeah he’s an NHL bust, but he also… Read more »
Damn so it was his conditioning? For the most part. Now that I look at that old photo I realize that we need to have serious convo about the Smurf home uni’s even the teal is too green compared to the old school aqua marine teal. They would look 100000x better with the black pants and black gloves and lid at least. If it weren’t for the new city connect debacle our home Smurf costumes would be the worst of all Bay Area uniforms. The road whites are better but would be awesome with black pants and lid and gloves… Read more »
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Yeah I actually don’t like the current Sharks jersey designs. That’s seperate from the logos, which I love, but the flood of teal is just bad design in my opinion. I’d love to see a jersey update for the first season that we expect to make the playoffs, like a visual “BAM! We’re here!” statement to show that the new era is in full swing
They just need to bring the band of grey back and the home unis would look sick
Ya the Smurf uni’s are synonymous with the worst times in franchise history. I love your idea about a new tougher look to usher in a new generation. I remember back in the old days opening up the mercury sports section and seeing the 3rd gen uniforms in 08 for the first time and being in disbelief. Those were definitely the worst
His nickname was “Fat Balloon”…. 😕 at least it led to the Sharks grabbing Whitney in the 2nd round.
i dunno, love the teal helmets. Best change in 3 decades IMO.
Story about him a few years ago in the Athletic said that he had a really bad shoulder dislocation in a game that required surgery in his second season and he never got full motion back and was never the same player.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2706929/2021/08/02/the-story-of-the-no-2-nhl-draft-pick-who-chose-the-simplicity-of-his-manitoba-farm/
Blackhawks with a W today.
Magic number is 2. That’s points Chicago gets or points the Sharks don’t get or any combo. Sharks with 4 games left, Blackhawks with 3.
Magic number is actually three. The Sharks can get to 59 points, but if they tie Chicago already holds the tie breaker.
Yup, you’re correct.
By tiebreaker, a tie means Sharks get the top lottery odds.
Worth noting, Only 3 NHL teams below 70 points now and Nashville can get to 70 if they get 4 pts in the final 3 games. Sharks are at 51. A lot of improvement could still result in a bottom tier record.
The Sharks could have won nearly all their 3rd period blown leads and still had top 5 odds.
Just shows they have a ways to go, but I think a few key pieces would go a very, very long way
Joseph’s point about it not being sustainable to bring playoff intensity for 82 games is valid, I have noticed from watching other games between good teams that they definitely see us as one of those games that Joseph talks about to just get the W and get out of town healthy. As we earn more respect and make a name for ourselves we are going to see more and more physical play and intensity too.
No doubt. Especially this time of year. Did you catch the Capitals/Canes game yesterday? That was a real playoff tune-up. Ovi flattened two Canes on the same PP and then set up a goal, it was vintage stuff.
No doubt other teams just think the Sharks are adorable right now. There have been a few games where the Sharks surprised a good team earlier in the year only to get flattened by them later when that team took the game more seriously. The recent Washington game stands out in that regard. Even the Kraken showed us what’s what.
It’s the reason I expect another early exit from the Leafs that the Sharks beat them twice, haha
Never mind. My mistake
The Oilers will clinch a playoff if they win, so they will play. Flames most likely will fight for their lives as well, and there are 2 back to back games.
With that said, it is possible that the Sharks might lose 2 out of 4.