BoC Gameday -- Starting the season off Sleek-style
by Earl Sleek on Oct 3, 2009 12:07 AM PDT
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San Jose Sharks (0-1) at Anaheim Ducks (0-0)
Seventeen hours from now I'll be drinking with the guys from Fear The Fin -- so read it.
Yeah, so I'm posting a night early for this one -- what can I say? I'm damn excited, why not start with a cartoon?
Talk about effort. This beats my old best by a whopping three panels!
Yes, godsdammit, hockey is back, and to celebrate its glorious return, Sleek's taking his lucky green shirt back to Row B for the Ducks' opener. Now to reiterate for newer readers, I'm not a terribly wealthy or connected fellow, but I do buy in for a handful of games in the seats seen below, adjacent to the penalty box, and wear a lucky shirt that I won in an internet bet during the cup season. Now I suppose I could switch over to the more-recently won Hiller t-shirt, but the black wouldn't stand out as well, plus I'm sort of a traditionalist at this point (I'm referring to the tradition of not getting pummeled by those opposed to lazy Nazi-based humor). At any rate, you can look for the green shirt on TV or say hi if you're at the game -- it's like a much easier version of "Where's Waldo?", with essentially the same set of prizes -- deep inside, you can feel like a winner.
This is where the magic happens. The magicky magical magic of inebriation.
As a special season-opening special, I'll be joined tonight by a special Row B first-time guest -- SBN buddy Mr. Plank of Fear The Fin, most likely spottable in his Pavelski jersey. It should be interesting -- I've only met the guy once, in last year's playoffs, but assuming the game results stay the same I'm sure we'll get along just great. (If Pavelski scores a goal, though, I'm buying a Whitney jersey during the intermission so we can re-stage last year's awkward excuse for a fight.)
I don't really know what to expect from the game itself -- both teams will still be getting up to speed, and there will be sloppiness -- still, I'm not sure there's a ton to be worked up about any outcome in Game One (Positivity! So long as the Ducks pick up more than two points over their first six games, they'll be ahead of last year's pace). Normally I'd expect the Sharks to come in angry after losing their first game in Colorado, but in this case, it's tough to imagine what could further anger the Sharks -- they've already got plenty of reasons to be pissed coming back to Anaheim, and the Ducks know it. And that's truly what I'm excited to see -- we've finally gotten our postseason BoC-quake; now we get to enjoy the glorious aftershocks.
I thought I'd add a note about the oddity which is the Saturday night game in Anaheim -- these typically have been as rare as deaths in The A-Team.
I made the pie chart to the left to show how the Ducks' home schedule typically breaks down. Since the lockout, the Ducks have played 192 home games -- 163 in the regular season plus 29 in the playoffs. Now I'll confess, my pie chart is incorrect -- it adds up to 193 games, which includes one Sunday game actually played in London, England. Stupid spreadsheet.
Still, out of the 192 home games over the past four seasons, only SIX have been played on a Saturday. I'm not really sure why this avoidance pattern persists -- it seems other NHL teams have plenty of Saturday dates, especially those in Canada. But for the Ducks, well we're apparently more Sunday folk.
Now it's very possible that Honda Center prefers hosting non-hockey events on Saturdays, or perhaps there's something contractual in Anaheim's expansion agreement which defers Saturday home dates to the Kings -- really, I have no clue why the Ducks haven't hosted on Saturdays. But it looks as if things are changing; this season's schedule has six Saturday home dates and seven on Sunday.
Shrug. Any theories?
* * *
Prediction: Ducks 4, Sharks 2. Goals by Perry, Teemu, Brownie, and Pronger Ebbett. Plank angrily pours half a beer on the lucky green shirt, and I wake up the next morning with only a vague recollection of it.
Oh yeah, and this happens:
Haven't tasted these heated tears in a while -- warm and tasty!
Go Ducks.
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The Kings always play on Saturday because the Lakers play on Sunday.
The West Coast is the Best Coast.
I personally don’t mind it — most games I go to end up being weekdays anyways. And Sunday afternoon’s always a pretty good time to watch a Ducks game from the couch.
Still — one nice thing about Saturday is you can get hooligans like Plank to travel down.
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a tale of two theories
1- Newport Beach on Saturday beats the hell out of Lake Erie. Especially in the winter
2- games on Saturdays risk conflict with Hannah Montana concerts at The Honda Ponda. A Stanley Cup means nothing to 20K screaming tweens.
by GordonBombay on Oct 3, 2009 9:13 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I like the Heatly tears a lot more for some reason. Maybe it’s that whole funky eye thing…or that he’s a bitch. You decide.
They mentioned something about the Saturday games during that fan forum thing. Something about “trying it out” and survey responses. Whatever, it just means I don’t look forward to the end of the weekend as much as I used to.
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Thornton’s tears are still the classic, though. But Heatley’s great too — it is nice that we’ve already tasted his tears.
But tomorrow could be rough — there’s plenty of revenge in the air.
They mentioned something about the Saturday games during that fan forum thing. Something about "trying it out" and survey responses.
Ah, see, I’m terrible about things like fan forums. Good to know they have a plan, though.
My survey answer? Pleasantly indifferent.
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I always figured they just did it to annoy the crap out of people who notice this sort of thing.
Put the Prozac away, what you need is Rat Poison.
Have fun out there with Plank. Keep the friendly verbal abuse between you two, ok? :)
Sorry I haven’t been more active here lately. Between a family medical issue (finally settling down), work, and having an upper-body injury (“flu-like symptoms”), it hasn’t been a good month for me to write. I should be back to doing gamedays in a week or two once everything collectively settles.
The cartoon was awesome… I think the duck should have gloated about his stanley cup more
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Oct 3, 2009 5:11 AM PDT reply actions
Ducksssssss.
Also Ebbett? I say 3-1, Ryan, Teemu, Niedermayer.
The Big Red Machine V.2 is coming this Fall 2009. Go Halos!
Oh yeah, actually that’d be better for my fantasy team.
Still, I’m experimenting a bit with the predictions (lord knows why) — right now, it’s whoever rolls off the tongue.
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We’re already concerned about fantasy stats on the third day of the season?
Oh well, when I’m at Staples, I’ll be following this game closely. I have Heatley on my team, somehow (stupid Yahoo! leagues).
Btw, my opponent this week: a guy who calls his team Free Duck Chum. Interestingly enough, he has Corey Perry, so I don’t know what he’s going for.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier. You suck at hockey... and life.
Get out of LA and never come back. Or sign with Anaheim... PLEASE??
We’re already concerned about fantasy stats on the third day of the season?
I don’t know what other teams have been telling you, Kevin. But today’s the first day of the season — it doesn’t officially start until my team plays. :)
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But when they play the Sharks, does that lessen the impact?
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier. You suck at hockey... and life.
Get out of LA and never come back. Or sign with Anaheim... PLEASE??
Depends on the result. If the Sharks win tonight, then the season officially begins next Tuesday. :)
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THE DUCKS ARE PLAYING AT HOME ON A SATURDAY!!!!!
Never thought I’d see the day. Of course it took a day for all 30 teams to be in action to see it finally occur, but I’m surprised.
So, Sleeky gets to go to a great Sharks/Ducks game in Row B, I’m stuck with the Glendale/soon-to-be-Hamilton Coyotes in 332. But hey, Section 332 at Staples are actually really good seats if you can’t put up the $$ for a glass seat, especially for 41 games a year.
Sharks are in trouble. I know they got Heatley, which is supposedly gonna make them a better team somehow. But they can never advance in the playoffs as it is, and now they got embarrassed by the Avalanche, who were 29th in the standings last year. Early on in the season, the final three teams in the West (13th-15th): San Jose, Detroit, Vancouver. Yep, the three division winners from last year. They all suck so far, at least in the standings. I know that doesn’t mean shit when only 7 teams have played a game, but it gives me something to be happy about before the Kings started choking.
Eight of the 15 Western Conference teams are gonna win because of that stupid “every game MUST have a winner” rule, unless the Blackhawks somehow manage to lose to the Panthers in that faraway land we call “Finland”… you know, like maybe 4-3 in a shootout, the GWG scored by a Finnish player.
Oh wait, that already happened? Why the fuck are the Blackhawks and PANTHERS playing in Finland, anyway?
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier. You suck at hockey... and life.
Get out of LA and never come back. Or sign with Anaheim... PLEASE??
if you can’t put up the $$ for a glass seat, especially for 41 games a year.
Full disclosure: I buy them for 3 games a year. Much cheaper on that plan.
Why the fuck are the Blackhawks and PANTHERS playing in Finland, anyway?
I know — I never thought the NHL could find a series that made less sense than Ducks and Kings in London (especially at the point when the Ducks were playing one European — Hiller), but then they brought the huge rivalry that was Blackhawks-Panthers to Finland. They probably had to introduce the two teams to each other, based on the low frequency that they ever meet.
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Red Wings-Blues was a shock, also. I understand the Red Wings, because they have I think 7 or 8 Swedes on their team, but the Blues only have two (Steen and Berglund). I’d much rather they pick the Blackhawks to face the Wings because of the recent rivalry between the two teams, or even the Canucks to give Sweden a chance to see the Sedin twins.
Would’ve been something to see the Ducks and Hawks in Finland. Even though the Hawks have only one Finnish player (their backup goalie), the Ducks have both Selanne and Koivu, as well as Nokelainen. I think the schedule was made before the Ducks signed Koivu, but I think that could’ve had potential.
I know you wouldn’t like that, since when they came back from London and had to play a road trip right after coming back to the US, they were so exhausted, and the team probably wouldn’t get two trips in three years anyway.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier. You suck at hockey... and life.
Get out of LA and never come back. Or sign with Anaheim... PLEASE??
Yeah, I won’t be happy going back to Europe until all 30 teams have done their share of cross-ocean marketing. The schedule would probably be a bit better now (unlikely anybody plays 3 North American games within a week of their European games like the Ducks did), even with the compressed schedule, but we’ve put in our tour of duty — your turn, Sharks.
And at least Wings-Blues know each other — that’s a divisional rivalry that doesn’t require introductions.
http://www.battleofcali.com/
Of course the Ducks would have been huge. But they had already been to Europe so no dice.
But I’m sure most matchups would have been sold out while this didn’t, so bad decision in that way also. Many people here have told me “No way I’m paying that much to see the Panthers!” And, in fact, even Chicago isn’t necessarily a good draw here. Of course it is a legendary franchise and a very good team, but their stars are too young to be known by Finnish hockey fans who don’t normally follow the NHL so no name recognition there either. And of course neither team has a high profile Finn. You need at least one of the two – a superstar or a notable native – to market these games.
Flames would have been big with Kipper and Jokinen. Blackhawks-Flames would actually have worked as they even played against each other in the playoffs. Gotta hope that if / when the NHL comes back here they bring a good matchup. Maybe I’ll even be rich enough to attend at that point.
I still think it should have been Ducks-Wings on the Swede-Finn border.
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by Bleys on Oct 3, 2009 9:34 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
SHARKS!!!
(that is all)
:)
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by ang6666 on Oct 3, 2009 10:02 AM PDT reply actions
(If Pavelski scores a goal, though, I’m buying a Whitney jersey during the intermission so we can re-stage last year’s awkward excuse for a fight.)
Pavelski DESTROYED Whitney or that’s how I saw it at least.
Excellent cartoon Sleek. I considered making a “All Flash No Finish” sign for Teemu tonight but realized he would probably score a hat trick and make me look like the ass I am.
Danny K’s at five?
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by Mr. Plank on Oct 3, 2009 11:10 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
Last time I went to a game with Earl, some guy in front of us left right before the shootout because he “doesn’t care about this shit.” If you see that guy will you punch him in the dick?
Plank: Hey, what do you think about the shootout?
Random Guy: I’m not a big fan, but-
Plank: Hiyah! *Punch
The West Coast is the Best Coast.
Yes … lots of Sharks on the POWERPLAY! :)
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality? (boycott Hollywood!)
by ang6666 on Oct 3, 2009 1:29 PM PDT reply actions
make that a reply fail … :)
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality? (boycott Hollywood!)
by ang6666 on Oct 3, 2009 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I also remember reading somewhere in the LA Times that they were talking about somebody new joining the Ducks broadcast. I don’t remember if it was TV, radio, or Spanish telecast (if the Ducks even have one)… but please, tell me Hayward is out for whatever reason.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier. You suck at hockey... and life.
Get out of LA and never come back. Or sign with Anaheim... PLEASE??
(crashing your gameday thread)
GO SHARKS!! :)
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality? (boycott Hollywood!)
by ang6666 on Oct 3, 2009 6:50 PM PDT reply actions
uh … no !
:)
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality? (boycott Hollywood!)
by ang6666 on Oct 3, 2009 7:32 PM PDT up reply actions
4-0. WTF.
Stupid Ryan Whitney Houston aka Cotton gin (rotten sin). I wish I could go all Bobby Brown on him, and beat some sense into him, he’s probably cracked out.
Two sloppy, sketchy, paranoid looking defense plays that give up two goals and then his stupid retaliation penalty, which leads to a goal against. Fucking guy.
hooked on quack
ok, so he scored one in the third. He still needs to score two more to brake even IMO.
hooked on quack
Who else saw Sleek standing for the Ducks' first shot there?
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Ouch
I’m loving this.
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Lurker! I’m trying to shake off that “insufferable” label! You aren’t helping dude! :)
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by ang6666 on Oct 3, 2009 8:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Shake it off?
Good heavens why? Besides, we’re nowhere near as bad as Detroit fans. You want insufferable, go to A2Y.
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oh goodness no! I’ve heard they are awful there.
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by ang6666 on Oct 3, 2009 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Just be very quiet and try to avoid making eye contact with any of them.
I’m just trying to live up to the trash talk of the tagline of this place.
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by GordonBombay on Oct 3, 2009 9:33 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
The Ducks tonight looked like last year’s version, minus Pronger to cover all of the mistakes. I hope it’s just first game jitters and they get back on track.
Insanity is just a state of mind.
I hope they don't, GO SHARKS!!!!!!!!!
I'm warning you! I have ADHD and I know how to use it!!!
by Diamondback15 on Oct 3, 2009 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t recall getting 9 shots through two periods in the Pronger days, but perhaps I’m just remembering the good times.
If you count preseason, then the Ducks have fallen behind 3-0 in more than half their games before the end of the 2nd. No, I think this is new territory — Ducks need to start playing when the game is tied, not when it’s out of reach.
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I just remember them having streaks of ineffectiveness on offense. You’re right, probably not 9 shots bad, but still bad.
And I was trying to say the D is worse without Pronger. I guess I made it sound like their the same. My bad.
I think we have brighter days ahead of us.
Insanity is just a state of mind.
One of the better moments of the night
…came courtesy of a possibly-drunk, definite-idiot Ducks fan, who waited until it was 4-0 Sharks to come talk shit at Plank’s Pavelski jersey. Unannounced and uninvited, the guy came over our shoulder to give us the inflammatory line:
“You know why the Sharks fail in the postseason? Because they play like a bunch of faggots!”
I think the guy wanted us to support him in pestering Plank, but I couldn’t stop laughing at the dude and his idiocy. Thanks, pal, for keeping my spirits up during the low point of the game.
Later the guy did apologize, I think at the nagging of his wife. Good fun.
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what not to wear
Alright, I’m no fashionista…but can you really threaten to take a guy out for an ass whooping when you’re wearing a blazer and jeans?
Unless you’re Jean-Claude van Damme, and it’s 1998 I don’t think that’s possible.
by GordonBombay on Oct 4, 2009 10:08 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Second fun crowd moment
…came when Douglas Murray got his third-man-in penalty against Mike Brown. The dude in Row A (not your enemy, Rudy, some other guy) was cussing his head off at Murray in his penalty box (the far one from us), to the point where the usher wanted to restrain him.
But we decided to stand up for the guy, and were trying to reason with the usher: “Well, it was a third-man-in, he’s not wrong about that. And sure he’s swearing in front of children, but I’m pretty sure those are his kids.”
It was a fairly funny exchange with the usher, and in the end, she left without reprimanding him. A win for the good guys.
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A win for the good guys.
Uh Earl … good guys and ducks fans never belong together … :)
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality? (boycott Hollywood!)
by ang6666 on Oct 4, 2009 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Good Guys?
I’m convinced that when forming the Ducks team Brian Burke watched the Ducks movies and based the entire concept on the ‘bad guys’ from those films. Correy Perry is essentially every douche from the Hawks team in the first film.
Annoyingly, it turned out more like Rocky than the Ducks movies because the bad guys won in the end (well, not tonight, maybe this is Rocky 4?)
Didn’t get to see the game because of the Kings game… God, I’m a fucking dumbass.
But at Staples, the two loudest cheers all night where when they announced the Sharks 4-0 lead during 2nd intermission, and when they announced O’Donnell’s name during the intros for beating the shit out of some guy who’s probably now playing in Bridgeport.
I didn’t have to be there, I could tell the Ducks sucked. They lose 4-1… to a team that lost 5-2… to the team that finished 29th last year. As a Kings fan, I don’t know much about winning teams (in hockey; the Lakers and Angels offset that), but I can’t imagine the Ducks played well last night.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier. You suck at hockey... and life.
Get out of LA and never come back. Or sign with Anaheim... PLEASE??
They played like shit, sure, but I don’t know about your transitive property of suckitude. It’s the President’s Trophy Sharks, dude.
What’s the Kings’ excuse about the ’Yotes, then?
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What’s the Kings’ excuse about the ’Yotes, then?
I’m going to be laughing bout this all night.
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality? (boycott Hollywood!)
by ang6666 on Oct 4, 2009 7:08 PM PDT up reply actions
No, you’re right, the Kings definitely played like shit last night. That much is obvious and can’t be debated.
The Red Wings, the best-run franchise in sports, are 0-2-0, so we can’t read much into the bad games these 0-1-0 teams have had.
Also, considering how shitty the Kings were last night, imagining the Ducks played even worse makes me feel a little better. We’ll see what happens on Tuesday, when the Sharks come to LA.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier. You suck at hockey... and life.
Get out of LA and never come back. Or sign with Anaheim... PLEASE??
Yes … would be nice to see a Northern California rape of Southern California … :)
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality? (boycott Hollywood!)
by ang6666 on Oct 4, 2009 8:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, since the Ducks lost, there’s no chance of SoCal raping NoCal. I’d rather have a rape, even if it means a Kings loss, than no rape at all……… maybe. I’m not sure. But at least if the Kings win Tuesday, I’ll be happy. If they lose, I at least will have a graphic to look forward to.
By the way, that reminds me of a comment somebody I was talking to at the train station last night said: “the Kings were like a gay porno, they just completely bent over”.
Needless to say, I’m gonna have a terrible nightmare tonight.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier. You suck at hockey... and life.
Get out of LA and never come back. Or sign with Anaheim... PLEASE??
If they lose, I at least will have a graphic to look forward to.
Whoa, whoa. Slow down there, buddy. I don’t know who usually makes Sharks state rape graphics, but it ain’t me. That would take some serious bribery, especially after Saturday’s game.
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awwww come on … be a pal! :)
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by ang6666 on Oct 5, 2009 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Perfect, just show this every time two Cali teams play.
But I feel like we’re screwing Bakersfield here. C’mon, they haven’t done anything to us.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier. You suck at hockey... and life.
Get out of LA and never come back. Or sign with Anaheim... PLEASE??
Have you been to Bakersfield?
That place deserves to be raped.
Proud father of Juan Carlos Perez. Think Albert Pujols at a position to be determined.
You can’t really say anything about any team yet. Take my Bruins for an example, they looked extremely disinterested and shitty against the Caps in the first game but were dominant and blew out the Canes in the second one. Let’s look at the standings again, say, a month into the season and maybe we can draw some conclusions.
Not to say that speculating – or teasing opposing fans – isn’t fun, though ;)
Hi, BoC!
Hope everyone here is doing well! Sorry for disappearing during the off-season, but I needed a break. I was sorta keeping track of the Ducks’ off-season moves, but I’m pretty ignorant of everything else that happened (’cept I did hear about some player from the Sens heading over to the Sharks). So please bear with me as I get back up to speed. (What? The Coyotes are still in Phoenix?)
I caught Saturday’s Sharks/Ducks debacle, and though the game itself was pretty depressing, it was really good to be watching hockey again. Looking forward to the rest of the season!
Welcome back, Grace. Don’t sweat it, the Sharks disappear every spring also.
And the Ducks didn’t show up in time for the season opener either.
So you’re in some pretty good company, it seems.
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OUCH!
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by ang6666 on Oct 5, 2009 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Welcome aboard, dude; thanks for reading.
Anything you want to know about Steve Montador? Short opinion: Solid guy, solid signing.
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I'm a Ducks Fan
Yeah, I’m a Ducks fan at heart but also a Sabres fan. I just love the old school Sabres logo. Montador was a good signing for them. I liked Montador when he played for us.
Thanks man. By the way, nice job on the comic for this post. Seriously, no matter what point any Sharks fan comes up with, for at least this year we can always default to that one defining moment when we eliminated them from the playoffs in the 1st round.
Plus that non-empty Cup trophy case. That’s like a deuce in the card game Asshole — trumps everything and immediately clears the board.
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Plank and I joked about that Saturday. I’m not exactly how Sharks fans feel they can talk crap to Ducks fans. What have we done to earn that right? We’ve been around longer and they have the cup. They won the only playoff contest between the two.
Sure, enjoy the game, have a few drinks, but save the Ducks suck stuff until we actually have something of merit besides a few regular season wins.
All that said, the Ducks deserve a much better fan base than they have. I can’t believe they weren’t selling out playoff games against the Sharks even when it looked like the upset was all but certain.
I personally love the rivalry. I have some Sharks fan friends and I get a total kick out of talking trash back and fourth when we all go to a game together. It’s cool when fans take it for what it is. I’m a fan of the Ducks, he/she is a fan of the Sharks. We’re both fans of hockey first and foremost though. So, talk trash, but have fun with it.
When I went to the Ducks vs Sabres in Buffalo it was awesome. First off Buffalo fans are absolutely insane about the Sabres. Win, lose, or draw, they sell out just about every game. I walked in with a Ducks jersey and I got some smart ass comments thrown my way and I dished a few out but every single time it was all in good fun. Nobody was taking it seriously and no one threatened to kick my ass or anything like that. Mostly it was stuff like “So, when are they going to do the flying V?” to which my response was “As soon as Afinogenov does that trick where he stumbles through the offensive zone like he has no clue what he’s doing and then coughs up the puck to the defense.” and we all had a good laugh.
I enjoy that aspect of it, kind of joking back and fourth, but I would never actually take the rivalry so seriously. It’s all in good fun.
Well, the Ducks may have lost the game and the two points, but the Sharks may have mysteriously lost Joe Pavelski.
Take that, Plank’s jersey!
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Damn it, Pavel is doing great for me on NHL 09. Although I may contend that the reason is because of my video game awesomeness. But it may be for the best that he’s not there in LA tomorrow. The best for LA. Not for the Sharks. I don’t give a fuck about them.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier. You suck at hockey... and life.
Get out of LA and never come back. Or sign with Anaheim... PLEASE??
Plus, I haven’t heard anything, but isn’t third-man-in a suspendable offense? Because I am 95% sure that Douglas Murray got one of those in Saturday’s game.
He was certainly the third-man-in on a fight, and was thrown out. I assumed (but I’m not really sure of the rules) that he’d get suspended at least a game — could be another boon for L.A.
But then again, I’ve seen absolutely nothing about it.
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I think it’s suspendable, but not 100% of the time do they issue suspensions. If there’s a fourth man in, or if everybody gets together after the third man goes in, they’ll let it go without punishment. The league I think just don’t want to see everybody ganging up on one vulnerable player.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier. You suck at hockey... and life.
Get out of LA and never come back. Or sign with Anaheim... PLEASE??
I’m not sure it’s suspendable. I went and looked at Rule 47 (all about fighting), and all it says about Third Man In is that a game misconduct can be imposed at the discretion of the referee.
After this section, the Rule goes on to state fines/suspensions for other offenses (if you’re an aggressor/instigator more than three times in one reg season, failure to proceed directly to penalty bench, instigating during final 5 minutes), but it doesn’t mention Third Man In.
I have a terrible memory about this sort of thing, though. Has there ever been a suspension for this offense?
It is so strange to see Rob in a Devils jersey. Seems to agree with him, though — he just scored the opening goal in the Devils/Rangers game.
Roofed it, too. I think that makes as many forehand shots he’s taken for New Jersey as he ever took in Anaheim.
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Pacific Standings
| GP | W | L | OTL | PT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
San Jose
|
82 | 51 | 20 | 11 | 113 |
|
Phoenix
|
82 | 50 | 25 | 7 | 107 |
|
Los Angeles
|
82 | 46 | 27 | 9 | 101 |
|
Anaheim
|
82 | 39 | 32 | 11 | 89 |
|
Dallas
|
82 | 37 | 31 | 14 | 88 |
(updated 4.12.2010 at 6:21 AM PDT)
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