Sharks Gameday: Crisitunity

by Megalodon on May 7, 2010 11:20 PM PDT

(I'll be busy for most of Saturday fighting crime/folding socks, so this is going up a little bit early. Enjoy!)

San Jose Sharks 2009-2010 Season Performance after Losing by More Than Two Goals

10/1/09 - Lose to Colorado 5-2. Next game beat Anaheim 4-1.

10/15/09 - Lose to Washington 4-1. Next game beat New York Islanders 4-1, two-game win streak.

10/22/09 - Lose to Tampa Bay 5-2. Next game beat Atlanta 4-3, six-game win streak.

11/25/09 - Lose to Chicago 7-2. Next game beat Edmonton 5-4, three-game win streak.

1/4/10 - Lose to Los Angeles 6-2. Next game beat St. Louis 2-1.

1/9/10 - Lose to Detroit 4-1. Next game beat Los Angeles 2-1, two-game win streak.

3/16/10 - Lose to Dallas 8-2 in the middle of a 5-game losing streak. :-(

3/31/10 - Lose to Dallas 5-1. Next game beat Minnesota 3-2.

If the Sharks were mentally fragile, they wouldn't be here. They wouldn't have come from behind to win Game 3 in Detroit, they wouldn't have tied the game fives times before winning in overtime in Game 2 against Colorado, and they certainly wouldn't have won six straight playoff games after Dan Boyle's own-goal. This is a team that can overcome problems and quickly put bad games behind them.

Trying to analyze Game 4 would be a pointless exercise. It'd be like a coroner asked to determine cause of death after a guy jumped off the Empire State Building. The Sharks got blown away by a hungry and desperate Detroit team, and there is no excuse.

Tonight the Sharks go into San Jose, into the TOUGHEST ARENA IN THE LEAGUE FOR ROAD TEAMS, to prove all the doubters wrong. They are fully capable of winning and are in control of their own destiny. If they stick to what has worked for them all season, they will come out ahead. It won't be easy, but it can be done.

Prediction: Sharks win 4-2, with goals by Heatley, Thornton, Nichol, and Pavelski.

Next Game

Detroit Red Wings
@ San Jose Sharks

Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00 PM PDT
HP Pavilion

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GO SHARKS!

It can be done and it will be done.

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by Angy on May 7, 2010 11:41 PM PDT reply actions

San Jose Sharks 2009-2019 Season Performance after Losing by More Than Two Goals

2019? Megalodon can see into the future!

by In Bust we Trust on May 8, 2010 12:21 AM PDT reply actions

yep, they don't lose by more than 2 goals for the next decade.

im down with that.

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by jwizzle241 on May 8, 2010 3:43 AM PDT up reply actions

I’m on this — been that kind of Saturday for a couple of us, it seems.

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by Earl Sleek on May 8, 2010 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions

Thanks buddy – yeah, that’s what happens when you throw something together Friday night and are out of commission pretty much all day. Moving sucks.

The curse shall be ended.
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by Megalodon on May 8, 2010 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions

Come on Sharks…get this done! :)

*******Lets Go Marleau*******

by Sharkgirl on May 8, 2010 10:25 AM PDT reply actions

In a sick way, I’d rather lose the way they did in Game 4 than, say, an OT heartbreaker. In Game 4, they lost because of gigantic defensive lapses and a discipline meltdown. If you cut out those minutes and just looked at the other 45 minutes or so, it’s not like the Wings were rolling them over.

So my POSITIVITY thoughts are this: 1) even in a disaster game, there were long stretches when they pressured Howard and 2) I’m hoping absolute humiliation is better motivation than an exhausting OT heartbreak or something.

It’s just one bad game. I always like to think that no matter how you got here, you’re here, so just look at the series score, not the box score. If we’d said at the beginning that the Sharks would be up 3-1 with a chance to close out at home, we all would have taken it, right? So it doesn’t matter how we got here, we’re here, so let’s do it.

by Mike Chen on May 8, 2010 10:38 AM PDT reply actions

In a sick way, I’d rather lose the way they did in Game 4 than, say, an OT heartbreaker.

I kind of felt the same way, oddly. You know the Sharks aren’t a team that are going to give up seven goals every game, so you’ve got to just call the game an anomaly and move forward.

The curse shall be ended.
Battle of California

by Megalodon on May 8, 2010 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions

2009-2019

So you’re saying we’re not gonna lose by more than 2 goals int he next 9 years?

WHOOOOOOOOO!!!

by PNK on May 8, 2010 10:44 AM PDT reply actions

Typo – blame netbook keyboards.

The curse shall be ended.
Battle of California

by Megalodon on May 8, 2010 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions

I keed, I keed...

Besides, looks like I wasn’t the first person to make such an obviously hilarious comment.

Interesting notes on history though, good job.

by PNK on May 8, 2010 5:20 PM PDT up reply actions

Meg -

Good luck fighting crime today. Don’t forget the fabric softener…

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by DodgerBlueBalls on May 8, 2010 10:58 AM PDT reply actions

I think it's on

and it probably will involve Donkey Kong.

Booyah

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by CTGray on May 8, 2010 2:56 PM PDT reply actions