You ain’t getting rid of me that easy.

Go Sharks. So say we all.

yeah … we’re all feeling the same way. At least being female, it’s easier for me to cry and not look like a wuss.

GO SHARKS!!!!!!

ughh.

happy to have gotten to know you a bit this season.

Here’s to 2009-2010 everybody

Just a really frustrating end to the season. This one hurts pretty bad, possibly the worst of all the playoff disappointments. This offseason promises to be annoying.

That being said – Plank, it’s been great to follow you from We Bleed Teal over to FTF, and it’s been pleasure reading the works of you, TCY and K and hanging out with all you fellow commenters.

Even if this is the most disappointing season from a hockey standpoint in my 15 years following this team, it certainly has been the most fun thanks to all you.

But I’m too busy committing suicide right now.

Talk to you all tomorrow! :-P

go sharks… (sniff)

I won’t be able to waste all my time reading WTC, sharks.nhl.com, FTF, chompboard, sharks.hockeyanalysis.com, couchtarts.blogspot.com, etc. etc.

and Ill support every one of them because he has more heart then the roster he assembled this year. Go Sharks and go DW!

They upset the number 1 in their division, Hartford, as a 4 seed, and they have some great young talent that we could/should see next year!

Go Sharks go!

I was a member of Plank’s original blog before moving on to this one.
Just took me a couple months before signing up haha.

You go easy tonight…take it from someone who’s been doing this for a long time (freaking Giants too)…the pain will ease with time. Let’s set our sights on Vegas some where in the hottest part of the summer.

Wasn’t in on these last few games – joined some friends in the game watching. Though I really appreciate the banter that has gone on – it’s been definitely on my bookmarks and read religiously.

It was an emotional rollercoaster. I held my tongue against some of these new people coming in, only to have reality hit me in the face like a steaming pile of poo. I don’t like poo.

Also, it’s time to shave.

Go Sharks! Woosta as well!

I was stoked when I finally came over here and started posting towards the end of the season. Finally people who understand my absolute love affair with the hockey team in teal. My friends just don’t understand, and its hard to talk to people about hockey when they just don’t care. Thanks for being here, providing intelligent (sometimes :-P) discourse, and a whole lotta fun.

I’ll keep floating in and out of here during the offseason. Go Sharks!

Dave, idunno, mymclife, a10dency, work the cycle…holy crap I can’t name you all! Everyone!

This season has been awesome. It wouldn’t have been half as cool without you all.

Summer get together, let’s DO it!

for being cool and level headed in the end here. we keep each other sane!!!

Sealed With A Kiss – Brian Hyland

Thanks for a great season Sharks and FTF!

Where The Past Is… sigh

Where the Second Round is Underrated

=D hehe

they better fear it.

that i found out about SBN and FTF just a couple of months ago, and didn’t sign up for an account until just last week after lurking around and having some good laughs. kinda felt bad just reading and not contributing (at least a little bit).

thank you for a good past couple of months, and i’ll definitely keep reading, cuz i’ll be on SBN fairly regularly now (reading McCovey Chronicles, Celtics Blog, and Niners Nation).

it was a great season, and from the first game i watched this season i knew the boys were going to do something special this year.

even more special than in years past.

yeah they had a good regular season, but why are you guys satisfied with that?
We could have had so much more. But then this happened again.
You really think we can get back to where we were? No way. We’re gonna lose a lot of vets and some of the prime players may be cut. I’m tired of them not showing up for the playoffs. I guess some of you are okay with a president’s cup, whatever the fuck that is good for. But enough is enough. This fanbase is too good to be treated like shit in the playoffs. Yeah we’ll always support the team, but we can’t let them do this to us time and time again. I respect optimists, but be real. If you look back in the first game or two’s threads, you can see me calling it.
No heart, there never was. You can’t deny that. So let’s be real, we won’t have this chance again.
And I leave with a resounding Fuck Anaheim.

And I know I’m supposed to revel in another Sharks playoff disappointment.

But I can’t. See, I grew up a Chicago Blackhawks fan. And as you might guess, J.R. was my favorite Hawks player growing up. I made up my mind that if San Jose raising a Stanley Cup banner was what it was going to take for my man to finally get his ring, I’d live with it.

I slumped a bit when they showed a shot of J.R. standing out on the ice before a faceoff late in the game. At the moment, I realized there’s now a 99.9% chance Roenick will never get his ring.

Not to mention, we feel your pain. Afterall, it was one of your other teams from the Bay Area that only two years ago shocked our Mavs in the first round after they won 67 games.

Chins up, guys. And girls.

The season was fabulous. Thank you to everyone on here who made me feel like a full-time person, even though I didn’t find the blog until 2/3 way through the year. Looking forward to next season very much.

My take – We had the skill, we didn’t have the on-ice leadership (can you say Sakic, Yzerman, etc.). DW will be making wholesale changes (see Ross McKeon’s column this morning), next years version will not look like this years version at all. I am excited at the prospect of October, and hope everyone has a wonderful summer!

Go Sharks!!
Go Pens!! (sorry Ang, I’m from Pittsburgh)

For those of you who saw how I reacted after a win, you can probably understand why I wasn’t here after this loss.

I was disappointed, sure, but today is a new day, and I’ve got a new outlook.

If you were to offer me a Sharks season where our boys were going to have the best regular season record, and in addition we’d see the emergence of so many of our young players as top NHL talent, I’d take that in a heartbeat… regardless of postseason success.

The Rolling Stones once said (and then repeated a million other times): “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.” I’m going to stick with that to describe this postseason. Unlike other teams, the Sharks didn’t mortgage their future to get to the playoffs this year. They’ve got some great young players on the roster, and some top tier NHL’ers on the way. I’d like to think that this year will add something to the franchise that we never had before. I don’t even care if we win the President’s next year… I think I like being the underdog better.

It’s everyone’s own right to be disappointed, but I’d love to think of how much the Sharks, and this community, have grown this season. I love all of you and I’m so excited to be part of a community that’s as fanatical as all of you.

Oh, and like Plank said… keep coming back this offseason. We’ve got a truckload of stuff to keep you entertained. And yeah, I’d miss you if I didn’t see you for that long.

Condolences on your loss. We know how you feel in St. Louis. Kudos to everyone who makes this a fun place for fans to come to, especially us Midwesterners who are looking for a West Coast game to watch throughout the season.

Remember, whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Or some shit like that. Beer cures all.

many thanks to the FtF staff, and those posters who were basically staff (Lurker, CTGray, mymclife, Dave, etc.). I know that after finding this community my hockey knowledge has grown more in the past 6 months than it had since I started following the team. Disappointing end to an otherwise spectacular season. Maybe think of it this way; we can watch the playoffs without the ulcers and migraines of having our team in them. I know those are ailments we’d all gladly suffer for a cup run, but just trying to delude myself into accepting this. Now we just get to wait until DW decides what to do with our team. Thank you all again, and I’m sure I’ll be dropping by in the offseason (you can’t just stop an addiction like this. I probably check this site more than I do my e-mail).

you guys are classy fans…..been a good series…lets hop for another BOC series next year…

now we gotta move on to the opposite of classy fans..fuckin wings fans

You guys are a cool bunch of cats. I know I haven’t hung out here long…I lurked around WBT and FtF for a long time, but couldn’t hold out forever. The consistently outstanding humor and anaylsis drew me in.

Plank, TCY, Mr. K….keep up the fantastic work. You’re great fans/bloggers and I for one am glad to have you reporting on the Sharks.

as a Blues fan, I have tasted the bitter tears of disappointment many. many times, and I know it doesn’t feel good. You have a great group of fans here and hopefully the good times will keep on happening…see you next year.

the low amount of doomsdayers, trolls and “fanposts” up to this point?

or have i just jinxed it

I’m so depressed. Not sure bout the rest of you, but today is a hard day to get thru so far for me.

I’ve been in a depresssed stupor all day, but no more. Its time to forget about this postseason already, and look forward.
As always, its an exciting time to be a sharks fan. It should be an interesting off season seeing what Doug Wilson does to improve the team, and hopefully there will be some big name players coming in. The sharks arent a lost cause, and there are a lot of people who are going to want to play for such a great organisation in front of such great fans.
Its not as if this team has nothing. Its full of extremely talented players and playoff wins will come. Theres a good young core of players already playing at a high level, and heres hoping that Thornton finally starts playing with some passion after the pasting that he’s going to recieve over the next few days. Cheechoo did enough in the series to remind us what he is capable of, and if he stays a shark then hopefully he will have a comeback season.
Little consolation as it is, this team is made up of great people. While my friend spent all day taunting me about the Ducks victory, i pointed out that at least the Sharks arent a team of complete pricks, with a couple of exceptions, and they are a team that the fans can really love.
Gutted as i am, im trying to be positive. These tiburones are a classy organisation, and the playoff wins, just like the regular season dominance, will come.
Go sharks

You know what our players are doing right now?

sipping margaritas in maui.

They don’t care. They get their paychecks either way.

I must go to class.

It was tedious guys, but maybe, just maybe, you can see where I’m coming from.

1. FTF hates kittens.
2. …and puppies.
3. We are all sad, and some people deal with that sadness by angering other people, and others deal with that sadness with unrelenting optimism. Both groups irritate me :-P.
4. That I was almost broke before game 5, and was already struggling to find the funds to afford a game 7 (if necessary, time TBD)…a second, a third, and a fourth round would have destroyed my finances for the rest of the year…a reality I was quite prepared for. However, maybe this is the silver lining I’ve been looking for.
5. Watching hockey when I don’t particularly care who wins is a completely different experience than watching the Sharks. And while I love the Sharks, watching the rest of the playoffs will be rather relaxing.
6. I found that I was most pissed off that I missed House and 24 to watch the Sharks lose their final game. Those are some good shows, man!
7. Nikolai Khabibulin will be a UFA this offseason…just sayin…
8. Life will go on, the Sharks have a solid core group coming back, and some serious talent waiting in the wings. McLellan will have a full year as the head man under his belt, and the players who come back will have a full year of McLellan’s system under their belts. The sky isn’t falling (although I’ll now need to find a new excuse for why there’s a hole in my wall), but changes will be made. Wilson knows what he’s doing, and, eventually, this team will live up to the hype.

Have fun bickering over whether the Sharks are awful and why we aren’t outraged. This season might have been a failure at the end (most seasons are, except for one lucky team), but the future is so bright I need new shades! New, teal shades, perhaps…

His website says “Disturbed and Speechless”

after reading the shit that went down while I was gone, thanks matt for completely pwning this clown, I think I can say that you spoke for me and probably most sane sharks fans. I don’t have a problem with dissenting opinion but not when you are so blatantly inaccurate and nonfactual.

if you think these guys don’t care (hockey players in general), and live a life of luxury pronger has golfed once in the last 9 months

Everyone who plays golf knows you’ve gotta keep the elbows in…DOH…he WOULD suck at golf.

Really enjoyed the site. I’ll be on it all the time now. Can’t wait to see what the Sharks do to get to the cup.

GO SHARKS!

"This whole town is so hockey oriented. You wouldn’t think it, but it’s one of the best hockey towns that I’ve ever seen," Roenick said. "It’s frustrating to me as a player to know that fans put all of their heart and their hope into us. And when we fall short, they hurt so bad. It’s almost like they bleed with us. It’s hard not to feel their passion. That’s why it’s so frustrating, knowing that we’re not bringing more for them. When you go to the arena at 4 in the afternoon, there’s already people waiting there. You just don’t see that in other places."

this is my 4th year of being a fan of sharks/hockey in general. i’ve learned more this year than i learned the first 3 years combined.

here’s to some beneficial offseason moves and a better outcome next season.

Made for good reading at work though. Kudos TCY and Gray.

how worn out I was from all this until I sat down and promptly passed out for an hour, missing the end of the Caps game.

I had dreams about the Sharks last night, but I can’t recall what any of them were. I might be annoyingly upbeat in my approach to the early end, but that doesn’t mean I’m not just as emotional worn out by this great ride we call a season.