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Sharks' Dan Boyle gets his season back on track
February 16
San Jose Mercury News
 
"Dan Boyle didn't need to pack any bitterness for this latest return to the city where he won the 2004 Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning. The owners who all but forced him to waive his no-trade clause are no longer in control. And one of the two -- Len Barrie -- is under criminal investigation for fraud involving his British Columbia development and has been evicted from his mansion near Victoria. "There was definitely some resentment, some anger," Boyle said Wednesday, recalling his first trip back to Tampa about six months after his July 4, 2008, trade to the Sharks. "But if I look across now, there's not one guy I can be mad at.""
Dan Boyle questionable for Friday with the flu
February 9
San Jose Mercury News
 
"Filling in for DP at Sharks' practice today, and I just wanted to pound out a quick blog posting before rushing over to watch the Chicago Blackhawks' skate. Defenseman Dan Boyle, who missed Wednesday night's 4-3 loss to Calgary with the flu, did not skate Thursday. It's unclear if he'll be ready for Chicago Friday night. "Boiler had the flu yesterday, so we let him stay home," coach Todd McLellan said. "We don't want him around the rest of the guys, just in case the bug is still with him. I would say right now that he's questionable (against the Blackhawks), and we'll see how he is tomorrow.""
Boyle on playing with broken foot: 'My game is skating and I was definitely a step behind for many of those games'
December 19
San Jose Mercury News
 
"Getting hockey players to talk about injuries is not an easy task. But after Dan Boyle's disclosure in a post-game radio interview that he had been playing with a broken foot, the defenseman did open up a little. The injury, he said, occurred in the Nov. 10 game against Minnesota. And his mentioning it to Jamie Baker was more inadvertent than anything else. "I wasn't thinking the other night when Jamie asked me. It was definitely a problem for awhile but it's behind me now, hopefully," Boyle said. Was he tempted to sit out a game or two? "No, no, no. It was just one of those things. You can kind of play your way through it," he said. "It definitely hurt my game a little bit."
San Jose Sharks' Dan Boyle is trying to snap his slump
November 28
San Jose Mercury News
 
"Dan Boyle can be his harshest critic. In that role, part of his routine after every game is to grab a seat on the couch once he gets home and watch a replay of himself in action that night. Right now the 35-year-old Sharks defenseman is going through a rough patch. He is without a point in his past six games, a problem for an offensive-minded player of his caliber. Add a handful of penalties and seven giveaways -- half his total for the entire season -- over that same stretch, and even Boyle found his own performance too painful to view. "The Chicago game, I got home and I actually didn't watch it just because I was disgusted," he said after Sunday's practice. "That was a little different."
Sharks blueliner brings Canucks diving to a Boyle
May 17
Vancouver Sun
 
"The Vancouver Canucks as divers? Could this really be so? Ryan Kesler was poked in the face by Shark defenceman Douglas Murray's stick in Game 1 Sunday night and he was not penalized for diving. Raffi Torres was elbowed in the mush by Dany Heatley and he, too, was not called for diving. Max Lapierre was horse-collared by Dan Boyle late in the third period and, oops, he was sent off for diving (accompanied by Boyle for holding). "If it's working for them, why change it?" Boyle said Monday, a day after San Jose fell 3-2 to the Canucks to trail the Western Conference final 1-0. "For us, we just hope the referees see it and watch the tape like we do and see some of the things that other people"
Sharks defenseman Dan Boyle eyes a turnaround against Red Wings
April 29
Detroit News
 
"Defenseman Dan Boyle knows his play wasn't up to his own standards in the Los Angeles series and needs to improve against the Red Wings. "It wasn't very good at all. I felt real good (in) Game 1 and never after that. It was a poor series," Boyle said Wednesday morning. "The good news is I get to turn the page on it and hopefully be better." He did register three assists while finishing a minus-1, but there were costly turnovers and mistakes along the way. "I can't really explain it. Sometimes you go through phases in a season where you're not playing well, and I just happened to go through that at the worst time," he said. "You name it - I missed passes, made bad decisions and compounded"
Dan Boyle hopes to shake off subpar series against Kings
April 28
San Jose Mercury News
 
"Defenseman Dan Boyle knows his play wasn't up to his own standards in the Los Angeles series and needs to improve against the Detroit Red Wings. "It wasn't very good at all. I felt real good Game 1 and never after that. It was a poor series," Boyle said Wednesday morning. "The good news is I get to turn the page on it and hopefully be better." He did register three assists while finishing a minus-1, but there were costly turnovers and mistakes along the way. "I can't really explain it. Sometimes you go through phases in a season where you're not playing well, and I just happened to go through that at the worst time," he said. "You name it -- I missed passes, made bad decisions and"
Sharks' Dan Boyle finds All-Star home
January 29
Oakland Tribune
 
"When it was over, when Dan Boyle knew what round he would be picked (ninth) and which captain would choose him (Carolina Hurricanes center Eric Staal), the Sharks defenseman assessed his situation in terms of creature comforts. "I get to be in the home locker room," Boyle said after Friday night's NHL All-Star game draft. "I haven't been inside it, but I'm pretty sure it's plush." Veteran view. In every arena, the visitors' quarters are never as spacious, never as nice as those of the home team. And in Sunday's game at the RBC Center, Boyle knows there's another advantage to being on Team Staal: crowd support. "We're definitely going to have the home-ice advantage with the Carolina boys"
Dan Boyle is Sharks' lone All Star
January 11
San Jose Mercury News
 
"Defenseman Dan Boyle today was the only Shark named to the pool of players who will participate in the NHL All-Star game in Raleigh, N.C. on Jan. 29. Teammate Logan Couture was also named one of 12 rookies who will take part in the skills competition that weekend, but not the actual game."
Ex-Bolt Boyle an essential piece of Sharks' team
November 7
Tampa Tribune
 
"The West Coast lifestyle suits Dan Boyle fine these days. Boyle and his wife Amber have two small girls, Easton (age 2) and Wesley (2 months). Both were born in California after Boyle was forced to accept a trade to San Jose on July 4, 2008. The 34-year-old defenseman, part of the main core of Tampa Bay's 2004 Stanley Cup championship team, has spent two full seasons with the Sharks and now considers San Jose his home. But Boyle will always have a special place in his life for the Tampa Bay area. His career took off once he was traded to the Lightning during the 2001-02 season, met his wife there and still has his South Tampa home. His parents still spend time in the area, attending about"
Boyle's early goal helps take sting out of his Game 3 gaffe
April 21
Denver Post
 
"Dan Boyle helped clear his lingering nightmare quickly Tuesday. Boyle, who was the goat in San Jose's 1-0 overtime loss to the Avalanche in Game 3 on Sunday, continually compared his errant backhander that caromed off goalie Evgeni Nabokov to waking up frightened and in a cold sweat. "I wish I could say I've turned the page already, but I haven't. I need to play," Boyle said before Game 4. "Until wethe puck, it's probably going to be with me, and it's probably going to stay with me until the series is done, and if we win the series, I can officially turn the page.""
Boyle will recover, but will the Sharks?
April 20
San Francisco Chronicle
 columnist Ray Ratto
"As Sharks fans struggle with the idea of a doom-on-doom sandwich, with Game 4 and new unimagined horrors confronting them all, there is this: If something as catastrophic as Game 3 had to happen, the Sharks couldn't have picked a better culprit/victim than Dan Boyle. Boyle's clearing attempt - the one that clipped Ryan O'Reilly's stick and squeezed through the six-inch gap between Evgeni Nabokov's pad and the left goal post, the one that won Game 3 for Colorado - mugged San Jose's hopes in the series and forced the Sharks to win three of the next four games or live with the nuclear shame. On the other hand, Boyle is the Sharks' toughest-minded player, as well as one who has won a Stanley"
San Jose's Boyle forced to live with his 15 minutes of infamy
April 20
Denver Post
 
"Somewhere in the back of every NHL defenseman's mind, the fear exists that something will happen just as it did to San Jose's Dan Boyle on Sunday night. Defensemen get paid to help keep pucks out of the net, so one can imagine the anguish when they put it in their own - especially in a playoff game. "I think every defenseman in the league has probably done it before, in some game," Avalanche veteran Adam Foote said. "It's not a good feeling." Hall of Famer Paul Coffey found that out in 1996, in a Western Conference final series for Detroit against the Avalanche. In Game 1 at Joe Louis Arena, Stephane Yelle threw a puck at the net from deep in the left corner, with Coffey standing sentinel"
Boyle makes impact in first game
February 18
Toronto Sun
 
"Team Canada defenceman Dan Boyle has come quite a ways in four years. It was a long ride from the taxi squad in Italy to driving the bus in Vancouver. The 33-year-old Ottawa native led Team Canada in ice time in their opening game 8-0 win over Norway Tuesday night with 20 minutes and 12 seconds of ice time, but despite being asked to play such a large role by Canadian coach Mike Babcock, Boyle isn't taking anything for granted heading into this afternoon's game against Switzerland. "I didn't know what to expect. None of us knew really knew what to expect," said Boyle, who added two assists and was a team-best plus-4 in the victory. "Everybody plays tons of minutes on their own team. On"
Tragic tale dampens Boyle's special trip
February 7
San Jose Mercury News
 
"Defenseman Dan Boyle made a quick trip to Southwestern Ohio to be honored by his alma mater on the off-day before Saturday night's game. But he had left the Miami campus before learning that Brendan Burke, a student video assistant in the hockey program and the 21-year-old son of Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke, had been killed in an auto accident. "I was with the coaches before the game, and they were kind of wondering where he was at the time," Boyle said Saturday. "I remember that Brian Burke's name came up, and they said, 'Yeah, his son works for us and by the way, where is he now?' " Brendan Burke and a passenger with him both died when the 2004 Jeep Cherokee that"
Injuries to Vlasic and Boyle force San Jose Sharks to scramble on defense
January 30
San Jose Mercury News
 
"The Sharks may have to reach further down their depth chart to put six defensemen on the ice tonight when they face the Minnesota Wild. Marc-Edouard Vlasic spent Friday getting checked out by the medical staff after a lower-body injury forced him to miss the final two periods of Thursday night's 4-3 overtime loss to the Chicago Blackhawks. "We don't anticipate it being serious," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said. As far as Vlasic's possible absence from the lineup, "I wouldn't anticipate it being a long one unless there's a surprise somewhere." McLellan would say only that Vlasic and Dan Boyle, who has missed the past three games because of an upper-body injury, are questionable for"
Shark's Dan Boyle misses third straight game with injury
January 29
San Jose Mercury News
 
"Injury keeps Boyle off ice for third straight game Dan Boyle missed his third game because of an unspecified upper-body injury Thursday, but the Sharks defenseman wasn't buying the suggestion that he didn't have to hurry back into the lineup because the team had been playing well in his absence. "That's not really my thought process, but it is my mom's," he joked. "She wants me to be healthy. I just want to be out there." Boyle was injured during a 5-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Jan. 19. Initially, he was expected to be back in the lineup against Chicago. Instead, he was on the sideline. "It's not a place I'd like to be, but, unfortunately, it's just too much pain right now,""
Dan Boyle out and day-to-day, Jason Demers called up from Worcester, Benn Ferriero sent down
January 22
San Jose Mercury News
 
"Dan Boyle has what they're calling an upper body injury and won't be in the lineup tonight against the Anaheim Ducks. It''s likely he'll have to skip a second game Saturday against Buffalo, but both the defenseman and his coach — while vague on any details about the injury — did say they thought he'd be good to go after that, presumably barring any unforeseen developments. Boyle only played two fewer shifts than partner Douglas Murray in Tuesday's 5-1 victory over the Kings. He acknowledged he came back to play a bit after he was hurt, but beyond that, nobody was saying anything. The Sharks have called up Jason Demers from Worcester and he's been paired with Marc-Edouard Vlasic for"
Sharks' Dan Boyle takes rap for hit that caused his injury
December 15
San Jose Mercury News
 
"Dan Boyle hopes four days between games will give his latest injury enough time to heal before the Sharks play again Thursday night. But if that doesn't happen, Boyle said Monday, he has only himself — not Phoenix Coyotes forward Taylor Pyatt — to blame for the bang-bang collision that left him writhing on the ice in pain in the final seconds of San Jose's 2-1 loss Saturday night at Jobing.com Arena. "It was my own fault," the Sharks defenseman said. "There were just a couple seconds left and out of frustration I kind of tried to counter-hit him and I put myself in a bad position. I pretty much did it to myself and it was a stupid play on my part." Pyatt placed his hand on Boyle's shoulder"
Sharks' Dan Boyle is day-to-day with injury
December 14
San Jose Mercury News
 
"Sharks defenseman Dan Boyle will continue to be evaluated this week to determine the extent of an injury suffered at the end of Saturday night's 2-1 loss to the Phoenix Coyotes, but a team spokesman said Sunday that it does not appear to be serious. No details on the injury were released. The 30-year-old defenseman was driven into the boards by Coyotes forward Taylor Pyatt just as the final buzzer sounded, and he had to be helped from the ice. After playing three games in the previous four nights, the Sharks had Sunday off. But Boyle and his family did attend the team's annual holiday party, the spokesman said."
Boyle wishes ex-Bolts teammates well
October 22
Tampa Tribune
 
"As Dan Boyle walked off the south rink inside the Ice Sports Forum in Brandon, as he was about to step into an unfamiliar locker room, the former Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman was greeted by a familiar group of fans welcoming Boyle "back home.'' In essence, Boyle has already moved on from his time with Tampa Bay, six seasons that saw the 5-foot-11 defenseman blossom into one of the league's top offensive blue liners and saw him become a main cog in the Lightning's 2004 Stanley Cup championship team. His South Tampa home has been up for sale and the lot in which he planned to build a new house on sits vacant, though he intends to hold onto the land in case he and wife decide to move back"
Boyle is the most likely candidate to replace Marleau as captain
August 18
San Jose Mercury News
 columnist Mark Purdy
"Patrick Marleau is no longer the Sharks' captain. The team made it official Monday. If you are stunned or surprised, you must be either a pure Marleau enthusiast who doesn't believe in consequences, or a pure baseball fan who doesn't believe in hockey. Here's a bigger question: Will Marleau be with the Sharks at all by the season-opening face off? The answer remains very much up in the air. Rumors still gurgle that Marleau could be traded, perhaps as part of some three-way deal that would bring Ottawa's Dany Heatley to our beloved Los Tiburones. However, if Monday's news does anything in that regard, it probably pushes the needle more toward Marleau staying. Otherwise, why would the Sharks"