2014 Playoffs San Jose Sharks vs LA Kings

I thought this series would be just as great as the St. Louis and Chicago series has been, however it has been quite the opposite. Game 3 was a pretty good back and forth game but games 1 and 2 were routs by San Jose were the Kings looked like they never even showed up for the game. game 4 is tonight and San Jose has a chance to make the 2nd sweep of these playoffs.

I Picked LA in 7 for this series and thought it was pretty much a toss up pick, I think it will be the winner of this series vs the winner of St. Louis and Chicago for the Cup finals.

 Here is a digital drawing of San Jose Sharks Logan Couture and a sketch of Jonathan Quick of the LA Kings done with a ball point pen.

Logan Couture

Jonathan Quick

2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs Round 2: LA Kings vs San Jose Sharks

I'm starting to finish most of the Artwork for round 2 and will be posting it within the next week. So far in this round no team seems to have a strong hold to win the series...maybe the Bruins after game 2 but you never know when Lundqvist decides not to allow any more goals.

The 1st post for this round is the Kings vs. the Sharks. This series is currently 2-1 in favor of the Kings and a big reason why that is, is pictured in my art work below, Jonathan Quick. In games 2 and 3 the Sharks have found a way to get more than one goal by him (something the Blues had a hard time doing) however the offense for the Kings which was barely visible in round 1 showed up when needed in round 2 to help out Quick. It's beginning to look a lot like last years Kings.

Here are 2 more pieces of my art work of the reason the Kings are in this position, their goaltender Jonathan Quick and Playoff Gamer for the Sharks Joe Pavelski.

Jonathan Quick

Joe Pavelski

2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs: Vancouver Canucks vs San Jose Sharks

It was hard to predict this series to start, question marks abounded for both teams. First the Canucks have had a season long goalie controversy while both played pretty well through the season and the team had a solid season as a whole and winning their division and the 3rd playoff seed.

Now the sharks were one of the most surprising and hottest teams to start the season and cooled off, but rebounded to finish the season strong they also have some of the clutch playoff performers in my opinion in Antti Niemi and Joe Pavelski, and even Joe Thornton has been solid in recent playoff years despite his reputation.

So naturally the Sharks come in and take a 3-0 series lead heading into tonight's game 4 and no matter what the out come of tonight's game it seems that the sharks will take the series in large part to the above mentioned playoff performers for the sharks...oh and one of my favorite players (because he's a Buffalo fan) Logan Couture. The Canucks have let the goaltending controversy become a major distraction, the first 2 games Luongo was solid, the team just couldn't score, then they put in Cory Schneider and fell apart in game 3. Seems that the Canucks should've let their goaltending issue go and work on creating more offence that they needed to win the series.

So here are two more of my pieces I've been working on for the Playoffs the Vancouver Canucks Kevin Bieksa and the San Jose Sharks Joe Thornton.

Kevin Bieksa

Joe Thornton

San Jose Sharks by Jim Link

Being that it is Shark week, here is some more artwork from Jim Link featuring San Jose Sharks and players Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau and Marc-Édouard Vlasic. Always love the style of Jims work be sure to check out his other artwork on the site.

2012 Playoffs Blues Vs. Sharks

Last night the St. Louis Blues eliminated the San Jose Sharks 4 games to 1. Most games in this series were close but the big guns on thee Sharks were unable to solve the Blues tight defensive play and great  goaltending. Looks like some big changes will need to be made for the Sharks for next year, they can't shouldn't blame Nemi for the loss, as he was inconstant during the season he was solid in the playoffs. So here are pieces featuring the St. Louis Blues David Perron who scored the GWG last night and San Jose Sharks Antti Niemi.

David Perron

Antti Niemi

Mini Goalie Mask: San Jose Sharks

I remember collecting those mini goalie mask key chains but didn't care for just the team logo printed on the top so I got inspired to paint a design based on the team logo on each mask. no these are from years ago (early 2000's I think) so some logos will be outdated but i think some of them are pretty cool. Here's number 26, The San Jose Sharks mini goalie mask

NHL Playoffs round 2: Detroit Redwings vs. San Jose Sharks

San Jose surprisingly has a 3-0 series lead right now on Detroit, it's been close though with 2 overtime games. So here is Detroit's Pavel Datsyuk and San Jose's Antti Niemi.

2011 NHL Playoffs: San Jose Sharks vs. Los Angeles Kings

This has been a great series to watch back and forth lots of scoring, here are two key players for both teams, first the Sharks  Logan Couture and the Kings Jonathan Quick

Joe Pavelski from Matt

Matt sent in some more great artwork recently, here is Joe Pavelski of the San Jose Sharks. Thanks Matt!

Joe Pavelski

Evgeni Nabokov and Dominik Hasek

Some more art work from Jim, Former San Jose sharks goalie Evgeni Nabokov and Furture hall of famer and current KHL goaltender Dominik Hasek

Evgeni Nabokov

Dominik Hasek

Sharks vs. Avalanche

Craig Anderson


Evgeni Nabokov

Playoffs: Ducks vs. Sharks

I picked the Sharks in 6 in a tough series. this was really surprising the way the Ducks really handled the Sharks

Corey Perry

Rob Blake

Playoff Art Round 2 - Sharks vs.Stars

Evgeni Nabokov and Marty Turco