Makes me feel less fat – thanks Plank!

is about as gross as losing to NJ. i had to watch onine and listen to the douchebags from NJ call it.

We won’t be able to improve that until the 2010-11 season, since it’s been 2 seasons since the Devils have come to SJ.

playing better but squandered the open short side chance.

so is that a 1-1-4 road trip?

no, 1-2-3. right?

My problem with Nabokov right now is his absolute zeal for challenging shooters. I understand he’s cutting off the angle, but when he gives up huge rebounds that lead to goals it’s enough to make me pull my hair out.

RW commentators were highly amused by the Sharks losing 6-5 to NJ (in regulation).

if he could control the rebounds it wouldn’t matter.

I feel like curling up into a ball and crying

Zach Parise had EIGHT shots today. Jonathan Cheechoo led San Jose with 5, and Patrick Marleau had just one shot today (a goal).

not a very hard forecheck today?

saw guys coasting in to the zone quite a bit.

3 goal first periods?

The storm in the Bay Area today was a metaphor for this game

Colorado up 1-0 at the Joe.

if anyone reads ryan garners blog, about 2 weeks ago he wrote a blog about not waiting for adversity to strike this team, they are just that good, etc. and he mentioned he didnt think they would lose back-to-back games.

well, thanks a lot abraham jinxon.

It’s a good thing that February is a short month – because we’ve got a lofty 1 win so far. 3 more home games, 4 more road games.

Forward, MARCH.

suddenly becoming gods in our building?

Giveaways tonight = 1 for San Jose (Milan), 3 for NJ (Oduya and Zubrus x2). Zub’s first led indirectly to Cheechoo’s goal.

Sorry I’m late. I had to work yesterday, so we’ve been preparing a Valentine’s Day dinner and watching on DVR. I stepped in briefly between the 1st and 2nd and decided it was best to not get involved in the discussion about goalie competency.

I saw lots of good and bad today. At times our forecheck was fantastic, but inconsistent. Individual effort by several guys was tremendous. Nabby made some on his head saves and stunk like two day old fish bait on others.

I’m with Plank, as much as the knee jerk reaction is to yank him when he gives up a couple of goals on the first 4/5 shots, I am not a big fan of pulling a goalie either. I can’t help but conjure up visions of Iron Mike yanking Kipper….it just isn’t right. But that said, I can’t for the life of me understand why we have to wait 30+ days between Bouch starts when Nabby is so obviously fighting the puck right now. He should be a stellar goalie (remember when he was easily considered an equal to Luongo and Brodeur?). He’s not playing at that level right now. And it doesn’t matter if he was screened, or the defense left him out to dry. He is supposed to be that stellar guy who makes those stops anyway. He’s not that guy right now.

At this point all I can hope for is home ice, and a healthy group.

As mentioned, I worried about this entire month back in October. Even with a healthy staff and a sharp goal keeper this would still be a rough month. It’s just now half over. Lets go home, rest, and win a couple. Then we can go back on the second half of this thing and hope for a repeat of last year.

Take aways = 2 for SJ (Grier, Murray), 3 for NJ (Madden, Zajac, Clarkson).

Blocked shots = 10 to 10.

saw big joe go out and do his whole “i am a man, you are children, get out of my way” thing. my hope is that with tmac at the helm he has this squad firing on all 6 cylinders come playoff time and joe brings that game. of course, this has been the wishes of many a shark and bruin fan for 6 plus years.

But I’ve got some major chores to attend to.

I’ll be at the games on Tuesday and Saturday – if I can score a cheap pair or even single for Thursday, maybe then, too.

GO SHARKS.

the stripes tried pretty hard to make up for the interference call. which was borderline, at best.

he did waht avery did to brodeur last year, just got close enough to be in his way, but did not initiate contact.
interference is a contact call.

To say that it’s 3-3 in the CO / Det. game!

This was a gem on Wyshynski’s reader comments awards, from Bubba Banjo (famous for saying, “Wyshynski, you stink!” =

The Bubba Banjo Award: Although he doesn’t post as frequently as he used to, one of the breakout stars of the Puck Daddy comment threads was Bubba Banjo, whose joyous celebrations of scantily clad women and cynical thoughts were sometimes punctuated with the term “Wyshynski, You Stink!”; something that has been adopted as a rallying cry by others. This award is given to the best bit of wit and wisdom we’ve seen from the man with the skunk avatar.


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17. Posted by BubbaBanjo Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:35 pm EST

The Toronto Sun …. Breaking news………………

Detroit, MI – Divine intervention is believed to have brought Stanley Cup victory to the Detroit Red Wings in the last years Cup. The fix was in!!!

Special high speed cameras blessed by a Pittsburgh priest were able to capture images of winged angels helping the Red Wings win the game.

Referees who watched the new game footage at home on The Catholic Sports Channel are filing an injunction. As no one in the Joe could see anything unusual, and the game went on as normal. Officials are currently reviewing the tapes to decide on holding a “do-over” of the cup.

Henrik Zetterberg received angelic intervention in what is being called miracle plays on his and other Red Wings Stanley cup goals. Winged apparitions could be clearly seen on special Vatican cameras. Several angels body checked defenders out of his way or bent space-time to keep him in control of the puck.

In the final seconds of the game the delicate hands of divine spirits guided the puck away from the net in a clear violation of NHL rules.

Review of the tapes shows one lone boy in the crowd giving a signal every time an angelic presence would intervene. He was later beat up in the parking lot by priests in Pittsburgh after being called to give special papal testimony.

The League of Cardinals at the Vatican is confused why the Almighty chose to help Detroit. “We are perplexed certainly, but He works in mysterious ways” said Cardinal Giaccomo Giuseppe. The Pittsburgh Diocese is said to have lost 73,000 Euros on the game in a bet with the Pope.

One Detroit priest who spoke on the condition of anonymity confirmed that angels did help the Red Wings win, and later held a debauched after party on the head of a pin.

Toronto Sun reporters digging further found that the whole seedy event was rigged by pope Benedict who is a distant cousin of Zeterberg. In a hidden mic recording he pope could be clearly heard saying “Hey…back off…its a perk that comes with the gig”. Rumor has it this figured heavily into Zetterberg’s recent bloated contract with the Wings.

On the record the Pope would only say “Wyshynski you stink” before this reporter was thrown out by several angry nuns. His Holiness Saint Bettman refused comment also.

It’s 4-4 now in the Avs / Wings game! Go Avs / anyone playing Detroit!

Nice effort by Florida. but they too fell just short.

My internet went down. Completely BS third, though.

Nabby has got to make saves, bad calls or not. He’s gotta be better if we’re gonna make any run at the Cup. I know he’s good, but I’d give Boucher a few more starts here so that one of two things will happen.

1) Boucher will prove that he needs to be in net
2) Nabby will have a fire lit under his butt and finally start playing like an elite goalie.

i’m demoralized.

My friend originally came over just for the game, but due to Guitar Hero and YouTube she didn’t leave until just now.

Ugh, Nabby. At this point, I’m not asking you to make the amazing saves. I just want you to make the saves that any goaltender worth his salt should. I’ve been on the Boucher Bandwagon for a couple months now, but Nabby’s continuously deteriorating play is concerning me more and more. More Bouch, plz?

The refs are biased. There is no other explanation as to why all those calls against the Sharks are being called, when the other team is doing the exact same thing with absolutely no call. I don’t normally agree with Drew when he starts ranting about penalties, but I do now – that Clowe penalty was bullshit. One of the Thornton penalties was bullshit. There were probably two more bullshit calls, but I don’t remember them.

Patty, Pavs, Seto, Cheech, Blake, Murray – these guys are honestly the only ones that I thought played well. No Goal Grier reared his face yet again, Joe cannot be trusted with the puck, Nabokov has been discussed extensively, and the WorSharks are just not good enough.

On another note, does anybody else think that Randy jinxes the game? Whenever he says “No score so far this period,” or “The score is tied,” the other team always scores. And then, during this broadcast, I believe he said something to the effect of, “With JR coming back soon, those bottom two lines will really start becoming solidified again.” Cue Plihal injury.

For those interested, Radek Stepanek def. Mardy Fish 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. After he won, Stepanek broke out his Thornton Black Armor for the aftermatch interview and activities. Turns out the man’s a Sharks fan too. I’m guessing nobody told him the final score since he played well in the doubles too.

Haha, but yah…. I was wondering, with every text-update I got of the game today… if they were going to shootouts again.
I saw the highlights though… 3 powerplay goals from the Devils?
Tsk, tsk.
The darn devils…. they should go to hell where they belong!

Let’s hope Sharks… will win it next time.

I decided to look at the lines and defensive pairings for the Sharks during yesterday’s game compared to the normal ones. It got kind of confusing after a while:

Marleau – Thornton – Setoguchi
Clowe (flu) – Pavelski – Michalek
Grier Plihal (injured 1st period) Nobody – Goc Grier – Cheechoo
Plihal Kaspar – Roenick Lemieux (flu) – Shelley McGinn
Mitchell

Boyle Blake – Lukowich Murray
Blake Ehrhoff – Vlasic Joslin
Ehrhoff Vlasic – Murray Semenov
Semenov

Nabokov (sucking)
Boucher (once a month)

IR: Mitchell, Roenick, Lukowich, Goc
DTD: Shelley, Plihal (?), Boyle

Italics and slashed out means that the player has been moved to a different position. Just slashed out means that they are injured.

Basically, what I found was that while the top two lines are largely untouched, the entire fourth line has been wiped out, the third line is slowly getting wiped out as well, and the top defensive pairing is injured, messing up all the other defensive pairings (because we can’t have Semenov with Joslin). That, combined with the fact that we know Lemieux and Clowe played with the flu and there are probably more players that have the flu but just aren’t saying anything (my best guesses are Thornton, Pavelski, Grier, Marleau, and/or Blake), makes it somewhat expected that the Sharks would lose. The fact that they never lost by more than a goal during this entire road trip, and only once in regulation, is definitely a good sign for an injury and fatigue-riddled team, but still.