Saturday night's game was the 1,000th behind the microphone for Sharks TV play-by-play announcer Randy Hahn, and he has no trouble picking both the high point and the most painful moment over the years.

"Without a doubt, Game 7 Detroit, first year Sharks are in the playoffs," Hahn chooses as the career highlight. "Jamie Baker's goal, the end of the game. That was one of the biggest playoff upsets in history, an eighth seed knocking off a number one seed."

Plus, Hahn felt a personal connection. He was involved in ground-floor efforts to bring the NHL to San Jose when a downtown arena was still in the planning stage.

"I'm thinking like here's this thing we made up at the House of Pizza in San Jose, and four or five years later, we just knocked off the Detroit Red Wings, and I'm part of it," said Hahn, who was an original member of the Pro Ice Hockey San Jose group that pushed the idea of an NHL team in Silicon Valley.

And the most painful moment?

"Game 6 in overtime, triple overtime, quadruple overtime — how many was it? — in Dallas," said Hahn of the 4OT loss to the Stars that ended San Jose's Stanley Cup dream in 2008. "To see it end that way, everybody spilling their guts out on the ice and still coming up empty, that one was a really bitter one to swallow."

"So many things ended with that night," he added, "it was a massive disappointment."

Hahn became the Sharks full-time TV announcer in their first year at HP Pavilion. Before he worked about 15 games each of the two seasons the team played in the Cow Palace, filling in when Joe Starkey had scheduling conflicts with football.

The first game Hahn covered was Oct. 26, 1991 — a 9-0 road loss to the New Jersey Devils.

Radio announcer Dan Rusanowsky has seniority among the TV and radio announcing teams, having broadcast every game since the Sharks entered the league except for 24 during the 2000-01 season when he was recovering from an auto accident. Rusanowsky reached the 1,000-game mark on March 21, 2004.

Fifty coaches from the USA Hockey program attending a three-day seminar in San Jose were at HP Pavilion for the Sharks' Saturday morning practice. Assistant Matt Shaw, the lone U.S. native on the Sharks coaching staff, addressed the group afterward.

Philadelphia's John Stevens was the first NHL coach fired this season on Friday, and Todd McLellan, as a former AHL coach with a team that had high expectations, said he could relate. "I think we all know we're going to take the bullet before the players do," McLellan said.