The Edmonton Oilers were in San Jose on Wednesday night to square off against the Sharks in their final game of the regular season. After countless ups and downs throughout the year, the 2024-25 campaign ended on a high note with the Oilers defeating the Sharks by a 3-0 final score.
Watching the Eastern Conference playoff race literally come down the final days of the 2024-25 regular season should really piss off the New York Rangers.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
San Jose Sharks captain Logan Couture will announce Tuesday that he is unable to continue his playing career due to injuries. On Tuesday’s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE, Tyler Yaremchuk and Frank Seravalli reminisced about Couture’s time in San Jose, highlighting his heroic performances in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, Darnell Nurse is expected to have a hearing with the NHL’s Department of Player Safety. Meanwhile, Gabriel Landeskog has finished his AHL conditioning stint and is ready to rejoin the Colorado Avalanche.
According to a report by Frank Seravalli of Daily Faceoff, the NHL will lose one of its team captains to retirement sooner than expected. Servalli broke
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
One frustrated Sharks fan is calling out a lack of leadership from San Jose captain Logan Couture, as opposed to injured Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog.
Logan Couture isn’t close to coming back. The San Jose Sharks captain hasn’t played since Jan. 31, 2024, after a recurrence of a deep groin issue that sidelined him for the first three months of the 2023-24 campaign.
Many have already written off Logan Couture when predicting their lineup for the Sharks during the 2024-25 season. While he did make a few appearances during the 2023-24 campaign, he didn’t look like himself and it was a short-lived experiment as he recovered from injury.
Ahead of the trade deadline this season, Logan Couture, like so many others from the San Jose Sharks, was mentioned in trade rumors. While players like Thomas Hertl, Anthony Duclair, Kaapo Kahkonen, Radim Simek, and Nikita Okhotuik were all dealt, Couture remained for a few reasons.
Logan Couture wants to come back this season. But first, he’ll have to get back on the ice. The San Jose Sharks captain missed the first 45 games of the season with Osteitis pubis, essentially a significant groin and abdomen and hip issue.
There are a lot of games left in the current NHL season, although that probably seems like an eternity for a San Jose Sharks team still looking for their first win of the 2023-24 campaign.