San Jose Sharks: Put Up Or Shut Up Time For Milan Michalek

With the San Jose Sharks questioning what has happened to their once potent offense, it is time to take a good hard look at left wing Milan Michalek. After being drafted sixth overall in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, Michalek was instantly an NHL caliber player and cracked the roster in his first year. Michalek scored his first career NHL goal in his first career game during San Jose' opening contest against Edmonton back in the 2003-04 season. The only assist on the play went to who, Wayne Primeau? Yes, that is correct, Milan Michalek's first career goal was assisted by one of the players who would later be traded for Joe Thornton. Michalek was supposed to be the young stud who was going to provide the Sharks a scoring left wing for Patrick Marleau. Before Thornton arrived, Milan Michalek was on track to be the main focus of the Sharks' offense. However, when Thornton arrived, the show was stolen and nobody really talked about anything other than Th...