Listened to the radio call of the game while watching on tv. Maybe the LA or Columbus games should have been televised instead of this one. They did outskate and pressure Detroit early, probably the first 10 minutes of the game, but after that it was horrible.

The Sharks could not get within 5-10 feet of the Detroit defense, so there was really no way they could up the physical play. The Sharks defense had trouble dumping the puck deep because they could not get through the neutral zone, they could not even ice the puck a few times. The number of neutral zone turnovers was huge.

After the first three goals, you had the impression that the Sharks could still come back. Nabokov did not look shark on his second game of a back-to-back, but he has not looked sharp early before and SJ has scored enough to give him time to recover. The fourth goal was a back breaker. There was no energy at all after that.

You want to give the Sharks a mulligan, it was just 1 game out of 82, but this was a statement game for the rest of the league and that is the message you do not want to send. A message that you can be run over without much of a fight. In the minds of a lot of east coast and Canadian media, it will take a lot of work for the Sharks to regain that dominant image after this loss. A little odd that the previous meeting got so little attention.

I couldnt think of another disaster to use. A friend of mine tried to run with the bulls a few years ago, drank too much, and got injured a couple of hours before it even started. That was disaster enough for me.

Triviality is BOC’s middle name.