Fear The Fin Jun 7, 2019
2018-19 Season Review: Barclay Goodrow’s disappointing career year
He scored a pretty important goal in the playoffs, though. Barclay Goodrow is not a polarizing figure in the Northern California sports landscape. In fact, as he ended the 2018-19 regular season, Goodrow was likely one of the least talked about players on the San Jose Sharks, for better or worse. On one hand, he quietly matched his career high in goals, and set a personal best in points; on the other, he played a full 82 game season, and the numbers he put up in the best season of his career were seven and 17, respectively. Sure, playing fourth-line minutes with linemates like Micheal...
Fear The Fin May 31, 2019
2018-19 Season Review: Evander Kane, penalty king
Kane led the entire NHL in penalty minutes, ahead of infamous pests like Tom Wilson and Antoine Roussel. Reviewing Evander Kane’s first full season with the San Jose Sharks has to address a major issue: his penalty problem. Kane led the league in penalty minutes at the end of the regular season with 153. That total is precisely double that of Barclay Goodrow, the Sharks’ second-highest penalized player. Kane played mostly in the top six, a role which is generally expected to produce offense. His constant presence in the penalty box not only kept him from contributing as much as he...
