Ten Things To Get Excited For

now mitchell is going to get hurt. but on the bright side, maybe you jinxed number 7 from happening…maybe…not jinxing it

I miss hockey… a lot. Good thing the Rookie games start tomorrow!

Hopefully number seven is the one thing that doesn’t come true this year.

I had forgotten how close we were to the season. (I’m not used to Giants games mattering this late into the season) But when I read #1, I got chills on my arms and a happy feeling in my chest. Feels like coming home.

Thanks Plank! You’re a peach.

I just love this team, even with all the screw-ups and disappointments they hand us every year. I love watching hockey, not knowing what’s going to happen next, and yet still being able to know how each player will play.

I gotta admit, #10 is one of this things I’ve been missing the most (aside from Torrey Mitchell, but that goes without saying). I hear the Jaws theme music, and I just wait to hear that announcement. Hell, even hearing Rock and Roll Pt. 2 at the USC-SJSU game yesterday made me wish I was watching hockey instead of college football (people were clapping every other beat during it, instead of the fast clapping normally done at Sharks games, which bugged me).

Oh, and no list can be complete without Boyle’s weird eyebrow thing (which is apparently him adjusting his helmet).

Joe Ike’s first “Sharks on the power playyyyy” call. The only known cure for whiskey dick in the continental United States. What a rush.

I laughed out loud – funny shit, Plank.

10. High Defenition. Hockey was made for it.

9. The commercials on KFOX and CSN. Yes, they’re very stupid, but who doesn’t love the fact that Brocade is so serious about Data Center Solutions and Hockey that they’ve instituted faceoffs for the last donut.

8. Nabby flashing the leather to dress up a simple glove save. It’s like the All Blacks and the Haka. It has nothing to do with the game. It has everything to do with making you crap your pants.

7. Some poor shmuck who plays wing for an Eastern Conference thing trying to hit Douglas Murray to get the puck off of him and discovering he is, in fact, made out of brick mixed with adamantium.

6. Discovering that nicknames are as simple as adding “-y” or “-er” or “-s” to the end of the name. Observe. “Planky.” “mymclifer.” “stufflifes.” And you all are now hardcore hockey players.

5. Booing Brian Campbell. Yes, I know, who could resist that much money. Does that really matter? You still boo Brian Campbell. I mean, come on, how could you not?

4. Mike Emerich. We have a great broadcast tandem in Drew and Randy, and given how much time I spend on the road sometimes, Dan and Jamie are godsends. I know people love to hate on Doc, but I love the way he calls games, especially in the playoffs. His excitement is contagious, and let’s face it, as intense as his calls are, the games are always twice as intense.

3. John Buccigross’s columns. That man loves hockey WAAAAAAY too much to be working for such a crappy network. I love that he loves hockey more than me and has the written accumen to describe it. His column at the end of the ‘07-’08 season about “boom thinking” remains one of the best columns on ANYTHING I think I’ve ever read.

2. Gameday threads. They’ll be new to me this year as it’s the first season I’ll be active on this blog. I intend to set the record for the longest GOAL exclaimation.

1. Wearing Teal. Let’s face it, you don’t just root for this team. For seven months, you live and breath with them. You invest a part of yourself in them. You pace infront of the TV and leave deep impressions in your carpet. On very special occasions, you break out the playoff towels because the team needs mojo. You scream at Mick. Magoo because he doesn’t realize that the asshats on the other team are hooking and holding and interfering. When Raffi Torres steps on the ice, you feel the need to burn something. Whenever anyone says the word duck, you automatically want to gag. And every game day is just a slow, agonizing grind until 7:38 when the puck drops. And it’s all just a prelude to two months of playoff hockey where nothing else matters, and everything is life or death.

Three weeks until we’re alive. Go Sharks!

Feels like we’ve been waiting forever…

I get to see the Sharks in person a guaranteed 3 times!! @ Phoenix, @ Minnesota and @ Chicago. I hope to fly to San Jose and check out a home game while in Phoenix too.

I’m predicting a 70 point season from our soon to be “C” Pavelski

I’m also predicting a FTF Invitational Fantasy title

FEAR THE 8!!!

just because I don’t quite know what Dan Boyle’s eyebrow thing is. If everything works out, one of my first major purchases after I start working will be Center Ice, behind only a coffee table (I’ve been using a tupperware tub for the last 3 months).

Thanks for the great post, can’t wait for some hockey.

To get this nasty taste out of my mouth from april…

Am I the only one that think time is slowing down? I am sitting here in my green St. Paddy’s Day Sharks T-shirt and dreaming about goals by guys with the names of Pav’s, Gooch, Clowe, Boyle & Crankshaft, (hey he has one).

Hey Plank, there is a problem in #3. The period is outside the quotation mark. That error makes me stabby.

Other than that, great stuff and COME ON OCTOBER!

I have a fever and the only cure is more Remenda.

The rookie games will take place Sept. 7-9 at 7 p.m. at Sharks Ice at San Jose. Seating for the Anaheim-San Jose Rookie Games is limited to the first 850 fans. Admission is $10 for fans 13 and older and $5 for fans 12 and under. All proceeds will directly benefit the Jr. Sharks Scholarship Fund. Tickets will be on sale at the door on each game day beginning at 5 p.m. All games will take place on the North Rink.

I hope to be there, since I can’t go Tues/Wed. and I’m dying for live hockey. If any FTFrs are going – we should meet up.

As much as I bitch and moan when they choke in the playoffs, they are still my team and I will always root as hard as I can for them to finally get over the hump and bring that cup back to California..

I just want them to stay healthy and play to their potential and for Nabby to take care of that freakin five hole..

Go Sharks

He sounds like a weasel..He is the single most annoying things in hockey other than the trap..

Dean Strong with the shootout goal to win the game!

I’ll keep this short. Game was awesome. I took at least 200 pictures btw.

we met Drew, scared DW, annoyed Todd, scared to poor guy sitting in between the lot of us, watched Swisher turn to mush as she said hi to Marchment and he said hi back, and cheered for Dougie Murray and Clowe as they walked in front of us all to go watch the game with the prospects sitting out in suits.

Our rookies defiantly looked MUCH better out there tonight. The Ducks rookies are better fighters though. No surprise there.

Couture is unreal

He is awesome (awesome can’t be an overused word right?). He’s about 5’6. And I used to think Vesce looked like a little kid…

Anyway Erlich is super fast, and umm just awesome I can’t put into words right now.

Sadly, I don’t think he’s signed by the Sharks. He was born in ’91.

I didn’t know they could make Sharks Ice just like a game at the Tank. They had all the sound thingys they play at HP.

It was so great to see a hockey game. Season start now!!!!!

But let me just say this:

Couture was amazing. He didn’t register a point, but it was seriously 11 boys and 1 man every time he was out there. Strong, smart, great vision. Used in all situations, blocked a ton of shots on the PK, positioned himself well, won faceoffs in every zone. Agile when the game slowed down but still needs a little work moving around defenders on the rush.

All in all though, he was fantastic.

I can’t go tonight but it’d be cool to see one more game before the big boys hit the ice for camp.

2-0 Sharks over the Ducks rookies right now. No big deal or anything.

Here’s one picture! Probably will have pictures up in a few days actually…

But what if you can’t even get a date.
Should I apply it to my study habits. Like when one of my parents catches me playing C&C or Battlefield 2, or watching anime, should I say its just part of the study process?