…..i am such a tool

I think the Wings surpassed the Sharks in total GA

hopefully this will send a major message to the Sharks and inspire them to keep on working and improving throughout the next few weeks. Not that I wanted the sharks to lose obviously, but sometimes you just need one of these as a team to keep you in line.

That one’s a tough one to take. Good thing it’s just December. You’ll get your crack at them in May. Better to be ready then than tonight.

was tough and a little heartbreaking, but i think we needed this. every great team needs a good ass kicking once in a while, and we haven’t been whooped this season. now we know how it feels and i’m assuming todd mclellan is pissed and will be issuing a few spankings to a few players. we’ve been humbled by the team that is easily our biggest competition in the league. we will learn from it, and own the rangers this weekend.

I’ll probably be getting on soon.

Why its a:

Good loss – as remenda said after the game, this loss will “knock their swagger down a little.” I thought that was a fairly good summation about what this game does accomplish (if you want to look at it as accomplishing anything). This one will stick with the players, and could highly motivate the Sharks when/if they play Detroit in the playoffs.

Bad loss – Pretty simple, we just got trounced by the guys pretty much everyone in the world has tabbed as our main competition. Pretty pure and simple, if we’re as good as we think we are, we shouldn’t be losing to Detroit like that. That was pretty much inexcusable.

you hear the “good loss” cliche thrown around in sports all the time. I think it rings true mostly in college sports not named “football” (given the way the BCS works), only because it’s how the kids playing out there learn from what they did and how they respond. In Pro sports it doesn’t usually apply much. In the Sharks case however this might end up a good loss. What it really depends on is how the team responds in the next game(s). They could lose and still respond well in the next game, absolutely that’s possible, but difficult. Even if they had another bad loss against New York, they could still create the “bad losses” into good ones depending on how they responded after that.

Now you can decide how they need to “respond”, as far as I’m concerned, so long as they go give the Rangers a big time run for their money, I will let this one go.

Oh, and, I still frickin love this team. Go Sharks.

Should have pulled Nabackup after the first two softies…

I had more fun taking my finals today than watching this game. That’s never a good sign.

I did notice that the Sharks were able to shut down Detroit’s league-leading power play, so that’s one good thing about this game. Oh, and Pavelski. He’s awesome. And, uhh, Boucher sure sat on the bench well. Solid effort by him throughout the game!

Oh, and hi, I’m new here and all that jazz. Long time lurker that finally felt compelled to comment.

This game has the same effect on our boys that the Coyote Ugly disaster did. The road to the cup will probably go through Detroit and they’re going to have to bring their A game.

I also take my share of responsibility for the loss. Just like last night I was at work late and only caught the 3rd.

will do that to you. Don’t worry, we should win in the Tank against NY.

I saw this one coming

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