Sharks Gameday: Santa Claus on a Helicopter
by Megalodon on Dec 9, 2010 7:23 AM PST
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After beating the best in the West on Monday the Sharks took on one of the top teams in the East last night, the Flyers. After the Sharks scored first, the Flyers scored the next four goals, and the situation looked bleak. Were the Sharks just going to continue their loss-win-loss-win pattern? Was there any hope or light left in the world at all?
But then! Then! The Sharks scored the next three goals to force OT and won the game in a shootout. Logan Couture made a strong case that Sergei Bobrovsky is a chump and the race for the Calder is still wide open.
Couture has been one of the Sharks best players this season, especially in the past couple of weeks. Even when our highly-paid top guys don't deliver, Couture finds a way to fly in like Santa Claus on a helicopter* and bring joy to the hearts of Sharks fans across the world.
Do the Sharks finally have enough offense? They scored four against the Flyers and five against the Red Wings, and that's even with Patrick Marleau suffering one of his infamous cold streaks**. With Thornton and Heatley still scoring and Couture, Ryane Clowe, and Joe Pavelski all legitimate threats as well, the Sharks may finally have found their stride.
Tonight's a good test for the Sharks as they face the not-very-good-aside-from-their-goalie Buffalo Sabres. Maybe tonight will be Marleau's night to snap out of it? I'll cross my fingers. Either way, after last night's inspirational performance the Sharks should be proud and ready to play tonight.
Prediction: Sharks win 3-2. Goals by Couture, Marleau, and Vlasic***.
Go Sharks. Dance! Helicopter dance!
* = And I'll bet you thought there would be no connection at all to the video.
** = If this were a modern NHL video game Marleau would have those little icicles next to his name for sure.
*** = Just kidding, I mean Demers.
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I’ve never really read the Flyers SB Nation site before but their breakdown of last night’s game is really awesome and detailed.
Over there they point out that the Sharks scored two goals right off of face-offs, and that the Sharks won 61 percent of the face-offs for the game. That’s awesome.
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that video rocks my Christmas socks right off!
How in the world did you find something like that?
"There is no gravity son, the world just sucks." - my father.
havent listening to them in years…they still somewhat funny? and is still hard to tell whos talking?
Frank: Now, Jane, what can you tell us about the man you saw last night?
Jane: He's Caucasian.
Ed: Caucasian?
Jane: Yeah, you know, a white guy. A moustache. About six-foot-three.
Frank: Awfully big moustache.
Go Ducks!
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Dec 9, 2010 7:50 AM PST up reply actions
On the Kevin and Bean archive I have listened to pretty much every thing they’ve done every day for the past four years. I know a lot of people have problems telling them apart but I don’t, anymore.
One time they read an e-mail I sent them about time machines on the air. Hooray!
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Here. It starts at the 3:25 point of this clip. They sound impressed by how crazy I am.
Also one time Bean read an e-mail I sent about a conspiracy theory involving dentists. I’m too lazy to look that one up right now but I was very excited.
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thats super cool well done (even though i cant hear it here at work..the fact it got read is cool)
Frank: Now, Jane, what can you tell us about the man you saw last night?
Jane: He's Caucasian.
Ed: Caucasian?
Jane: Yeah, you know, a white guy. A moustache. About six-foot-three.
Frank: Awfully big moustache.
Go Ducks!
www.battleofcali.com
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Dec 9, 2010 9:17 AM PST up reply actions
someone save me!! where are my loyal minions?
Frank: Now, Jane, what can you tell us about the man you saw last night?
Jane: He's Caucasian.
Ed: Caucasian?
Jane: Yeah, you know, a white guy. A moustache. About six-foot-three.
Frank: Awfully big moustache.
Go Ducks!
www.battleofcali.com
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Dec 9, 2010 9:34 AM PST up reply actions
llo
"There is no gravity son, the world just sucks." - my father.
by tu madre on Dec 9, 2010 11:04 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Yeah, I was excited that the seven hours a day I spend thinking about time machines finally paid off.
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Am I correct in guessing that Primer is one of your favorite movies?
Taylor Morgan: "My abortion was botched!"
Teemu Selanne: "Wow. That sounds awesome."
by DodgerBlueBalls on Dec 9, 2010 10:55 AM PST up reply actions
I saw it years ago, and I thought the ideas behind it were pretty interesting but I didn’t like it very much as a film.
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seven hours a day I spend thinking about time machines
To be fair, 6 1/2 of those hours are coming up with humorous modern names for historical figures for Bill & Ted’s Radical Expedition. Isn’t that right, Pete Villa?
by RudyKelly on Dec 9, 2010 11:04 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Since Kevin is a huge hockey fan I have a long-term goal to somehow get them to mention Battle of California on the radio. Not sure how to get that done as of yet though.
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I'd suggest calling "what it do, nephew"
Though it does require you to be up at 5:30 AM. I once called to ask Psycho Mike who would win a fight between a guy with two baseball bats and a guy with two hammers.
by yeah_eric on Dec 9, 2010 12:24 PM PST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
** = If this were a modern NHL video game Marleau would have those little icicles next to his name for sure.
llo!
Frank: Now, Jane, what can you tell us about the man you saw last night?
Jane: He's Caucasian.
Ed: Caucasian?
Jane: Yeah, you know, a white guy. A moustache. About six-foot-three.
Frank: Awfully big moustache.
Go Ducks!
www.battleofcali.com
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Dec 9, 2010 7:49 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
And Tim Connolly can join him
"I could have conquered Europe, all of it, but I had women in my life." - King Henry II of England
* = Just kidding, I mean Demers.
Or Braun. Vlassic scoring a goal. That’s just nonsensical.
"Douglas Murray is a humongous human being." – Drew Remenda
I don’t know how Vlasic has managed to STILL not even have a point. It’s madness.
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thats really hard to believe
Frank: Now, Jane, what can you tell us about the man you saw last night?
Jane: He's Caucasian.
Ed: Caucasian?
Jane: Yeah, you know, a white guy. A moustache. About six-foot-three.
Frank: Awfully big moustache.
Go Ducks!
www.battleofcali.com
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Dec 9, 2010 8:38 AM PST up reply actions
It’s like the Sharks streak of WLWLWLWLWLW… It takes a special kind of skill not to even accidentally get a 2nd assist.
"Douglas Murray is a humongous human being." – Drew Remenda
I remember one year my dad was really impressed when Mike Rathje managed to play 81 games in a season as a top-pairing defenseman without accidentally scoring a single goal.
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Murray is hoping to match that feat this year.
"Douglas Murray is a humongous human being." – Drew Remenda
Psh, Murray is an offensive dynamo. Don’t sleep on him, or he’ll drop a hat trick on your ass!
"If you can accept losing, you can't win." ~Vince Lombardi
The Jody Shelley of FearTheFin's Mod Squad.
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by ZeroIndulgence on Dec 9, 2010 11:01 AM PST up reply actions
GO SHARKS!!!!
I’m still hugely smiling after last night’s win. Damn did we luck out with that! Father Time loves us!!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
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I’d prefer fewer heart attack games and more total domination. Please!
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Vlasic...
What the H is wrong with this dude? Did he pee in someone’s Cheerios or something? This guy can’t catch a break/point to save his life! He had one shot last night that I was sure was going to go in but yet… it did not.
C’mon Vlasic! Get that first point tonight! Make us all stare in disbelief at the TV that you actually got an assist or holy heck, a GOAL!
GO SHARKS!!!!
that’s even with Patrick Marleau suffering one of his infamous cold streaks
Marleau’s stick blade has actually been cracked for a few weeks but he keeps playing with it because he doesn’t want to make a fuss.
by RudyKelly on Dec 9, 2010 9:36 AM PST reply actions 4 recs
Sharks @ Sabres
When the Sharks go to Buffalo, I always, always think of Jumbo’s first shift as a Shark with Scotty Thornton and Cheech.
Win the faceoff, cross the blueline, crank a slapper off the post. Good times.
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by Mike Chen on Dec 9, 2010 11:50 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
Random Idea
Now that he is awesome, Logan Couture needs a nickname. Ideas?
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Someone on the Sharks broadcast called him Cooch. Like Gooch (for Setoguchi), I think that gets automatically disqualified.
Wolverine, however, I like.
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It works on so many levels. I also heard somewhere that Logan Couture was born with bone claws.
Just kidding, Chet.
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Oh look! Meg has been upgraded to a Manager ….woohoo! :)
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin
by Angy on Dec 9, 2010 4:21 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Well this is the first I’ve heard about this. Earl must love Wing’s music as much as I do.
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Whoo! Dan Boyle is a traitor!
Mike Weber: Free to roam the ice and take stupid boarding penalties once more.
Everything wrong with the Sabres is Drew Stafford's fault.
Vanek takes those slapshots when it takes too long for him to score.
Mike Weber: Free to roam the ice and take stupid boarding penalties once more.
Everything wrong with the Sabres is Drew Stafford's fault.
It’s anger management, really.
Mike Weber: Free to roam the ice and take stupid boarding penalties once more.
Everything wrong with the Sabres is Drew Stafford's fault.
Nostralodon?
Mike Weber: Free to roam the ice and take stupid boarding penalties once more.
Everything wrong with the Sabres is Drew Stafford's fault.
holy pickles batt man
His name is
logan “fu*king” coututre, get used to it.
Clowe you are a beastly bleeder among other things.
by PigPen on Dec 9, 2010 5:48 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Santa Claaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusssssssssseeeeee
On a helicoptaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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