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WORCESTER - Worcester Sharks President and CEO Michael T. Lehr released today in conjunction with the American Hockey League, the Worcester Sharks 2008-09 regular season schedule. The Sharks home opener will be on Saturday, October 18th vs. the Providence Bruins at 7:05 p.m. at the DCU Center. Fans are encouraged to visit Sharksahl.com to view the schedule in its entirety.

The Sharks will commence the 2008-09 All-Star season with two games on the road, the first in Lowell as they take on the Devils at the Paul E. Tsongas Arena for a 7:00 p.m. game on Saturday, October 11th. After a visit with the Albany River Rats in Glens Falls, NY for a 7:30 p.m. match-up on Friday, October 17th, the Sharks will travel home for a battle against their divisional rival, the Providence Bruins.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Right wing Ryane Clowe agreed to a US$1.6 million, one-year contract to stay with the San Jose Sharks on Monday.

Clowe was a restricted free agent after scoring eight points in 15 games last season. He missed 67 games after undergoing surgery on his right knee, but returned with four games left in the regular season before scoring nine points in 13 playoff games.

He made his NHL breakthrough in 2006-07, scoring 34 points and racking up 78 penalty minutes in 58 games with the Sharks.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -Right wing Ryane Clowe agreed to a one-year, $1.6 million contract to stay with the San Jose Sharks on Monday.

Clowe was a restricted free agent after scoring eight points in 15 games last season. He missed 67 games after undergoing surgery on his right knee, but returned with four games left in the regular season before scoring nine points in 13 playoff games.

He made his NHL breakthrough in 2006-07, scoring 34 points and racking up 78 penalty minutes in 58 games with the Sharks.

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SAN JOSE - San Jose Sharks Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Wilson announced today that the club has signed free agent defenseman Matt Kinch to a one-year contract. In keeping with club policy, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Kinch, 28, spent the 2007-08 season with Binghamton of the American Hockey League. In 73 games played, he tied for second among team defensemen with 25 points (9-16=25) and accumulated 73 penalty minutes.

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SAN JOSE - San Jose Sharks Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Wilson announced today that the club has signed free agent defenseman Brendan Buckley to a one-year contract. In keeping with club policy, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

In 2007-08, Buckley, 31, played in 43 games for Iserlohn of the DEL posting four points (0-4=4) and 119 penalty minutes.

Buckley posted nine points (2-7=9) and 107 penalty minutes in 63 games with the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League during the 2006-07 season. He has appeared in 501 career AHL games with Cincinnati, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Syracuse, the Worcester IceCats, Peoria and Manchester posting 83 points (13-70=83) and 84 penalty minutes.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -The San Jose Sharks re-signed center Marcel Goc to a one-year, $775,000 contract Friday, avoiding arbitration with the defensive specialist.

Goc, a three-year veteran, had five goals and three assists in 51 games last season while playing mostly on the Sharks’ checking line. His offensive struggles led to frequent benchings by coach Ron Wilson, but Goc also appeared in four playoff games.

Goc, a former first-round pick, was among 15 NHL players who filed for salary arbitration last week. He agreed to terms two days after fellow German Olympian Christian Ehrhoff signed a three-year, $9.3 million deal to return to San Jose.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - The San Jose Sharks re-signed centre Marcel Goc to a US$775,000, one-year contract Friday, avoiding arbitration with the defensive specialist.

Goc, a three-year veteran, had five goals and three assists in 51 games last season while playing mostly on the Sharks’ checking line. His offensive struggles led to frequent benchings by coach Ron Wilson, but Goc also appeared in four playoff games.

Goc, a former first-round pick, was among 15 NHL players who filed for salary arbitration last week. He agreed to terms two days after fellow German Olympian Christian Ehrhoff signed a $9.3-million, three-year deal to return to San Jose.

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The San Jose Sharks are among the winners so far this off-season and that was a must for a team that was a second-round loser for a third consecutive spring.

For most NHL clubs, averaging more than 100 points in the regular season and reaching the second round every year would be gravy. But the Sharks have loftier standards and were not impressed with how their season ended at the hands of the Dallas Stars.

“We played five good playoff games out of 13,” Sharks GM Doug Wilson told The Canadian Press on Thursday. “That’s not acceptable. We decided to make some changes.”

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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -Defenseman Christian Ehrhoff re-signed with the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday, agreeing to a three-year deal worth $9.3 million.

Ehrhoff, a German Olympian who has spent his entire NHL career with San Jose, was a restricted free agent.

He had one goal and 21 assists last season in 77 games, leading the team with 108 blocked shots. Ehrhoff also played through a serious ankle injury in the postseason, recording five assists in 10 games.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -The San Jose Sharks traded veteran defenseman Craig Rivet to the Buffalo Sabres on Friday for two second-round draft choices.

The Sharks also gave up a seventh-round pick in 2010 along with Rivet, the longtime Montreal defenseman who joined the Sharks in a trade late in the 2006-07 season. San Jose gets a second-round draft choice in each of the last two drafts.

Rivet signed a four-year, $14 million contract with the Sharks last summer. He had five goals and 35 points as a dependable performer on San Jose’s defense last season.

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