They earned the # 3 seed in the Western Conference for the Stanley Cup playoffs ( extending their professional sports record of post-season appearances to 20 seasons ), finishing behind the Vancouver Canucks ( 117 ) and San Jose Sharks ( 105 ).

On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, the Red Wings set the NHL record for most consecutive wins at home in a single season by winning their 21st home game with a 3-1 victory over the Dallas Stars, and on Sunday, February 19, 2012, defeated the San Jose Sharks to record their 23rd consecutive home victory, breaking the overall record previously held by the Boston Bruins over two seasons from 1929-1930.

* Nickname of Antti Niemi, NHL goalie for the San Jose Sharks

Two teenage gangs, the Jets ( White ) and the Sharks ( Puerto Rican ), struggle for control of the neighborhood, amidst police whistles and taunts ( Prologue ).

The Jets get antsy while waiting for the Sharks inside Doc's Drug Store.

As of March 2010, it has also been included in Annex I of the CMS Migratory Sharks MoU, which strives for increased international understanding and coordination for the protection of certain migratory sharks.

It was recreated for the video games Spy Hunter ( 2001 ), King's Quest V, Lego Indiana Jones, Sonic Unleashed and Civilization V and appeared in the novels Left Behind, Appointment with Death, The Eagle in the Sand and The Red Sea Sharks, the nineteenth book in The Adventures of Tintin series.

The Red Sea Sharks is notable for bringing together a large number of characters from previous Tintin adventures, going all the way back to Cigars of the Pharaoh:

The Red Sea Sharks has been criticised for stereotypical portrayal of Africans ; although obviously good-hearted, the black characters are shown as being somewhat simple.

Even as the show ended its run in 1984, the theme is still heard as a car prize cue on The Price Is Right and was used for similar purposes on the late-1980s revival of Card Sharks.

Nine new expansion teams were approved for 2007 in the AF2: the Boise Burn, the Cincinnati Jungle Kats, the Fort Wayne Fusion, the Laredo Lobos, the Lubbock Renegades, the Mahoning Valley Thunder, the Texas Copperheads, the Tri-Cities Fever, and the Corpus Christi Sharks.

On January 6, 1986, CBS relocated Press Your Luck in order to make room for a Bob Eubanks-hosted revival of Card Sharks.

In Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Sharks admitted that anywhere from 14, 000 to 44, 000 people had attended their first two games for free or at significantly reduced prices.

The Birmingham Americans weren't paid for their last five games, the Florida Blazers weren't paid for the last three months of the season ( and reportedly survived on McDonald's meal vouchers ), and the Sharks weren't paid for what turned out to be their last six games ; the most dire situation, however, was that of the Detroit Wheels.

The Jacksonville Sharks name was later revived for a team in the 2010 revival of the Arena Football League.

The Oilers also worked out a trade with the Ottawa Senators for star right wing Dany Heatley, but Heatley refused to be dealt to Edmonton and was later acquired by the San Jose Sharks.

A bevy of trade deadline deals saw the departure of some mainstays from the Cup team such as Kunitz, who was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins for defenseman Ryan Whitney ; Pahlsson, who was traded to the Chicago Blackhawks for defenseman James Wisniewski ; and Moen, who was traded to the San Jose Sharks for two prospects.

The Stars were the first overall seed for the 1998 Stanley Cup Playoffs and defeated the eighth seeded Sharks in six games in the first round.

Despite their success against Calgary, round 2 would prove to be a disaster for the Sharks, when they lost in a four game sweep to Detroit ( in a rematch of the previous year ) without even holding a single lead in all 4 games.

Tintin's old nemesis and the mastermind of the plot in the book is the evil Rastapopoulos, who Frey argues is an example of anti-Semitic caricature, though other writers argue against this, pointing out that Rastapopoulos is not Jewish ( his drugged ramblings about the past of his family mentioning Erzurum and his surname make him likely a Turk of Greek ethnicity ), and surrounds himself with explicitly German-looking characters: Kurt, the submarine commander of The Red Sea Sharks, Doctor Krollspell, whom Hergé himself referred to as a former concentration camp official and Hans Boehm, the sinister-looking navigator and co-pilot, both from Flight 714.

Big business was also shown as a cover for illegal activities: Rastapopoulos for example is a respected businessman who mixes with people in high places, but is also the leader of major smuggling operations: opium in The Blue Lotus and slaves in The Red Sea Sharks.

* Writer Hugo Frey argues that Rastapopoulos ' appearance was an example of post-war anti-Semitism on Hergé's part, though other writers argue against this, pointing out that Rastapopoulos is not Jewish and surrounds himself with explicitly German-looking characters: Kurt, the submarine commander of The Red Sea Sharks ; Doctor Krollspell, whom Hergé himself referred to as a former concentration camp official ; and Hans Boehm, the sinister-looking navigator and co-pilot, both from Flight 714.

Sharks are a notable example of fish that depend on dynamic lift ; notice their well-developed pectoral fins.

1994 saw ET back at his best, seeing him score a total of 18 tries from just 18 games and leading the Sharks by example after also being awarded the captaincy of the Sharks.

* Romeo and Juliet starts out with a street fight between the Montagues and Capulets ; the Jets and the Sharks have a similar fight.

Sharks and rays typically have five pairs of gill slits that open directly to the outside of the body, though some more primitive sharks have six or seven pairs.

Sharks have a covering of dermal denticles that protects their skin from damage and parasites in addition to improving their fluid dynamics.

Sharks and other cartilaginous fish ( skates and rays ) have skeletons made of cartilage and connective tissue.

Sharks have keen olfactory senses, located in the short duct ( which is not fused, unlike bony fish ) between the anterior and posterior nasal openings, with some species able to detect as little as one part per million of blood in seawater.

Sharks have the ability to determine the direction of a given scent based on the timing of scent detection in each nostril.

Sharks have eyelids, but they do not blink because the surrounding water cleans their eyes.

Bullhead Sharks have distinctive small spikes on the front of their dorsal fins.

The most well-known, the Sarasota Sharks, have been around for many years and have won numerous national championships.

The Sand Sharks have played at the Richard Gray Baseball Complex since 2008 and will continue games at the facility until a new facility is built on the USCB's south campus in Beaufort County.

Devonport High School Old Boys RFC and The Stonehouse Sharks Youth Rugby Club play out of The Stonehouse Creek Community centre, built in 2003, DHSOB have had mixed success on the pitch in recent years, but were Lockie and ELlis Cup winners in 2005.

After learning of his demotion he alienates the rest of the team, to the point that he gets his car sawed in half at a party, and the Sharks are blown out at home in a game that could have given the Sharks home field advantage in the playoffs.

As the scene ends, Christina and the other executives are angrily asking Crozier how he could have let Beamen finish the season without re-signing him to a longer contract for the Sharks.

Other shows that have aired include the Street Sharks, Extreme Dinosaurs, Dragon Flyz, Biker Mice from Mars, Earth Worm Jim, The Tick, Garfield and Friends, Gadget Boy and Heather, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ( 2003 series ), Count Duckula, Jimmy Neutron, Project G. e. e. K. e. R., Wing Commander and Rugrats.

All but four NRL clubs ( the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, North Queensland Cowboys, New Zealand Warriors, and the Gold Coast Titans ) have won a premiership.

In return, the Sharks would have the rights to players from the North Stars and then participate with the North Stars as an equal partner in an expansion draft with the new franchise.

Sale Sharks Rugby Union Club have played at Edgeley Park since 2002

The heavy metal band Blue Cheer have a song called " Sweet Child of the Reeperbahn " on their 1991 album Dining with the Sharks.

Since the implementation of the playoff system, Only three teams have won both the regular season and playoffs in the same year ; Leicester in 2000 – 01 ( the first year of the playoffs ) and again in 2008 – 09 and 2009 – 10, Sale Sharks in 2005 – 06 & the Harlequins ( in their first ever premiership final ) 2011-12.

The comical Italian opera diva first appears in King Ottokar's Sceptre, and is also in The Seven Crystal Balls, The Calculus Affair, The Castafiore Emerald, Tintin and the Picaros, The Red Sea Sharks, and would have appeared in the unfinished Tintin and Alph-Art.