Preseason Recap: Heatley, pro or con?

Game 1: (09.17.09)

The Sharks played the LA Kings away in Ontario, CA. The moment of truth, the Sharks first pre-season game. San Jose niched in a quick goal that Ferriero hammered in the first period to start off the game. The 2nd period went fairly uneventful, but no goals were scored. Third period rolled in and the Kings put a shot in on Greiss to tie the game up at one a piece. The OT's were played but they resulted with zero goals again. Greiss stopped all four shooters from the Kings while Jason Demers put in the game winner shootout goal. Sharks 2, Kings 1, and the Sharks are 1-0 in the preseason.

Game 2: (09.18.09)

Sharks back in the Cage with the Canucks in the HP Pavilion. Mitchell, on the Canucks took an early advantage of a distant slap shot from the blue line with heavy traffic and roofed it in on Greiss to start the Canucks off with their first goal. Within about a minute Burrows, again a Vancouver player, put in an excellent pass to Scatchard who put it past Greiss for goal #2 (2-0). Next, within another two minutes the Sedin brothers put together a shot-redirection combo to put a third goal past Greiss. The second period rolls around and the Sharks are down 3-0, this was not turning out to be the greatest home opener for the Sharks. Within the second period things got messy as Vancouver put in another 2 goals before the horn rang to signal the end of the second. Henrik Sedin scored a little over a minute into the 2nd and with a power play goal at 5:35 in the second he struck again putting the Canucks into a 5-0 lead going into the 3rd. A defeated Sharks team hobbled into the locker room after a long two periods. Just as the Sharks were staring down a 5-0 hole, the Sharks attacked swiftly as Ortmeyer wrenched in a wrister off a deflection just four minutes into the 3rd. The Sharks now only trailer 4-1 are fighting back. Then as things finally started looking a little better for the Sharks, a large chunk of time without any goals elapsed before Erhoff, former Shark now playing as a Canuck, sniped in a long ranged slap shot in the 14th minute of the third. This didn't discourage the sharks just yet, since Jamie McGinn slammed in a rebound goal of Marleu's initial shot. The game closed out as a Vancouver victory 6-2. A disappointing home game put the pre-season at an even 1-1 record.