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Big events coming to San Jose in 2025

SJ Today has a list of major events coming to San Jose this year. These include the Lunar New Year Tet Festival, Friend Fest, Cinequest Film Festival, SubZERO, FoodieLand, Summer Jazz Fest, and ma...

Sharks Prospect Roundup Midseason

It’s no secret that the Sharks have one of the best, if not the best prospect pool in the entire NHL. General Manager Mike Grier has added Macklin Celebrini, Yaroslav Askarov and Sam Dickinson to ...

SJHN Daily: How Much Term Is UFA Ceci Looking For? Matthews Takes Jumbo on Mentors Trip

Pending UFA Cody Ceci would "love to stay" with the San Jose Sharks. As Curtis Pashelka of The Mercury News reports, the 31-year-old veteran defenseman would welcome an extension. However, Ceci sh...

Sharks Locker Room: ‘Big Bad Vegas’ Sets Standard for San Jose To Follow

Big Bad Vegas. There’s a reason why San Jose Sharks’ fan favorite Tomas Hertl chose to waive his No-Movement Clause to join the Vegas Golden Knights last Trade Deadline. They’ve been the class of ...

Help Us Provide Hygiene Kits for Unhoused Youth in Santa Clara County by Jan. 24

By the Valley Water Youth Commission Youth Homelessness is seen as a rising issue in the United States. It has seen a big increase, especially in Santa Clara County in the past few years. There ar...

Programming in Harmony

Discover the roots of computer music and the development Harmony Compiler, one of the earliest pieces of music-making software to be distributed to users.

Quick bites: Celebrini’s welcome to the NHL moment

The San Jose Sharks lost to the Vegas Golden Knights (again) at SAP Center, but this time by a much more respectable 4-2 score. The Sharks battled back through deficits throughout the night and ke...

Warsofsky on How Sharks Use Analytics, Importance of Eye Test (+)

Ryan Warsofsky was just 26 during hockey’s so-called “Summer of Analytics”. In the summer of 2014, Eric Tulsky and Kyle Dubas were among a number of analytics pioneers hired by NHL teams. Many are...

Redwoods and Fog

We know fog when we see it, but what is fog? Fog clouds linger in cool, damp forests, lending an air of mystery and beauty around us, but the mystery is a simple one. Read on to learn about fog an...

Astera Labs relocating HQ to San Jose

The San Jose office market is still facing many challenges (Downtown San Jose just recently hit a 20 year vacancy high), so any news is good news. Astera Labs has just announced that they are movi...

SJHN Daily: Svoboda Wins Gold, Celebrini Appears on ArtButMakeItSports

Sleeper San Jose Sharks prospect Brandon Svoboda took center stage on Sunday. Svoboda's USA took home the gold at World Juniors, beating Kasper Halttunen (Finland) in a 4-3 OT thriller. The 2023 t...

Couture Not Close To Coming Back, But Still Helping Sharks

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 t...

Golden Knights at Sharks (game 43): Lines, game thread and how to watch

The San Jose Sharks play host to the best team in the NHL tonight, when they faceoff with the Vegas Golden Knights for the final time this season. The Golden Knights have won the two previous game...

Sharks Can’t Overcome Golden Knights Again, Lose 4-2

The San Jose Sharks welcome the Vegas Golden Knights into SAP Center. William Eklund and Timothy Liljegren scored, but Vegas won 4-2. Period 1 2 in: Nimble Georgiev bang-bang save on Howden in slo...

Massive Mailbag! Sharks’ Trade Deadline Talk, Celebrini’s Next Contract, Deal Eklund?

The San Jose Hockey Now Podcast takes on all your questions…four hours worth! Beast asked: Do the San Jose Sharks regret signing Sam Dickinson so early? Because if they had waited for longer, he c...

Preview/Lines #43: Walman Close to Return? Why Start Georgiev? Sturm Injury Update

Is Jake Walman on the way back? That would be good news for the San Jose Sharks, who have clearly missed their top puck-moving defenseman, since he was felled by a lower-body injury on Dec. 21 at ...

New coworking space opening in Downtown San Jose

Pacific Workplaces is a flexible workspace solution for individuals and teams. It's a modern take on coworking. They are doing a grand opening for their newest space in Downtown San Jose on Februa...

Valley Water advocates for federal funding during a visit to Washington, D.C.

As climate change progresses, the need for sustainable water solutions and infrastructure in Santa Clara County has become more urgent. Rising construction costs driven by inflation are impacting ...

Year of Letters

Welcome to a new series starting at Rinconada, where we will make cards, write letters, and decorate envelopes in a social setting.

New Sushi Confidential sign gives a nod to the San Jose Sharks

Sushi Confidential is a popular Japanese restaurant in San Pedro Square. They have a new sign with an arrow saying "Sushi" pointing to the restaurant and another arrow saying "Sharks" pointing at ...

Quick Bites: Sharks surprise Devils with last-minute winner

The San Jose Sharks’ stretch of games against Stanley Cup contenders continued with a matinee matchup against the New Jersey Devils, who are one of the NHL's most exciting teams. The two previousl...

Meier on What Jumbo Meant to Him, More Defensive Role With Devils (+)

For Timo Meier, coming back to San Jose is still weird. Meier is back at SAP Center for the second time since the San Jose Sharks traded him to the New Jersey Devils on Feb. 26, 2023. In first gam...

Sharks Locker Room: Good Teams Make Their Own Luck

When you’re good, you make your own luck. The San Jose Sharks are starting to learn that. Some good fortune helped the Sharks pull out a last-minute 3-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Satur...

Filip Bystedt on Track? NHL Scouts, John McCarthy on 1st-Round Pick’s Progress (+)

Is Filip Bystedt on track? When the San Jose Sharks selected Bystedt with the No. 27 pick in the first round of the 2022 Draft, the hope was that the 6-foot-3 Swede would develop into a middle-six...

Symphony San Jose presents THE FIREBIRD SUITE January 25 and 26, 2025

With music as enchanting and lavishly colorful as the title character, The Firebird is the perfect way to celebrate the new year. This suite comes from the 1910 ballet that launched Stra...

Preview/Lines #42: Sturm Game-Time Decision, Walman & Eklund Improving

The San Jose Sharks practiced on Friday, but very short-handed. Mikael Granlund, Alex Wennberg, Nico Sturm, and Cody Ceci did not participate. Head coach Ryan Warsofsky, however, said Granlund, We...

Devils at Sharks (game 42): Lines, game thread and how to watch

The New Jersey Devils pay a visit to the San Jose Sharks today, in the final game of the Devils' road trip. New Jersey (24-14-3) is looking to bounce back after three straight losses to the Caroli...

Sharks Win! Last-Minute Ceci Goal Beats Devils

The San Jose Sharks welcome the New Jersey Devils into SAP Center. Nikolai Kovalenko and Macklin Celebrini and Cody Ceci scored, and the Sharks won 3-2. Period 1 Will Smith on PP1 with Celebrini, ...

SJHN Daily: Wiesblatt Makes NHL Debut, What Rom-Coms Are Celebrini & Smith Watching?

San Jose Sharks' first-round pick Ozzy Wiesblatt just made his NHL debut. Wiesblatt, who the Sharks drafted with the 31st pick in the 2020 NHL Draft, had a tumultuous path to the NHL. He had under...

Books written by San Jose authors

SJ Today has a new post listing dozens and dozens of books with ties to San Jose. They are broken into categories of fiction, worldview, local interest, personal stories, family, and poetry. I'll ...

Quick bites: Sharks snap skid at eight

The San Jose Sharks took on one of the NHL's better clubs last night and won, snapping its losing skid at eight games. The Sharks beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 for the team's first regulation w...

Sharks Locker Room: ‘That’s what it takes to win in this league’

“That's what it takes to win in this league.” Head coach Ryan Warsofsky wasn’t talking about goals by Tyler Toffoli and Mario Ferraro, or even Yaroslav Askarov’s 23 saves, in the San Jose Sharks’ ...

eResources Alert! Things to Know Before Converting your eCard

This eResources blog focuses on how converting an eCard to a Full Access card impacts eResource access.

What Would Askarov Take From Vasilevskiy’s Game? (+)

Macklin Celebrini had Sidney Crosby. Will Smith had Patrick Kane. And Yaroslav Askarov had Andrei Vasilevskiy. So what a thrill it was for Askarov to outduel an idol, like he did during the San Jo...

What’s Georgiev Working On With Sharks Goaltending Coach Speer? (+)

When the San Jose Sharks acquired Alexandar Georgiev as part of the Mackenzie Blackwood trade last month, the plan appeared to be to help the 28-year-old find his game and get his career back on t...

Celebrini on Canada’s World Juniors’ Elimination: ‘I can only imagine the pressure’

Macklin Celebrini knows what it’s like to lose for Team Canada at the World Juniors Last January, before he was drafted first-overall by the San Jose Sharks, Celebrini and Canada were eliminated i...

Saturday 1/18: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Commemoration

Digital Humanities Center

Bay Area Michelin Star Restaurants - 2024 Edition (Part 2) + 2025 preview

It has been a long while since doing a post about Michelin recommended/starred restaurants--2019 in fact.The Michelin guide is the most renowned rubric in the world for measuring culinary success....