Sharks Gameday: History Was Be Made
by Megalodon on Apr 21, 2011 8:00 AM PDT
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That was some game, huh?
This series steadfastly defies rational analysis. In game one we saw the Sharks dominate a period before taking a few steps back and then winning the game in OT. Game two was a total meltdown failure for San Jose. Game three was a total meltdown failure for San Jose AND Los Angeles, but Los Angeles failed harder so the Sharks got an incredible once-in-a-generation victory.
Los Angeles has scored more goals in this series than the Sharks yet finds themselves down two games to one. LA has probably also played more good periods of hockey than the Sharks over the past three games, and yet it is the Sharks who have all the momentum and the lead in the series. Going forward the Kings have to win 3 of 4 from a team that has all the confidence in the world right now.
Are there areas of concern for San Jose? Yeah, sure. Antti Niemi has looked iffy in this series, and it remains to be seen if he is going to be a stable presence in net. The Sharks have gotten both of their victories in overtime, and both of those games could easily have gone against San Jose. The Sharks have yet to play a complete game for three straight periods in this series.
The Sharks should be proud of what they accomplished on Tuesday. It was an amazing, history-making event. But there's plenty of work still to do.
Prediction: Sharks win 4-2. We finally get a normal game out of this crazy series.
Please enjoy a BOC Animation Studios re-creation of the historic events of April 19th, 2011.
Click here to view! Seriously, click here, it's awesome!
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Holy shit — that’s awesome. There’s a new cartoonist in town — my job security has just been shaken.
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Holy shit! That cartoon is awesome! Pure awesomeness!!! Total win!! :)
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
Nice ‘toon. One question though, why wouldn’t the shark use and ax and not his teeth?
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
It happens too quickly for my drawing skill to capture, but he actually cuts the head off with the axe and then eats it.
Does that answer your weird double-negative question?
Los Angeles, like Hell, is not easily conquered.
Battle of California
What do you mean I can only rec this once?
I have a Twitter account and I have a blog, but I don't have time to write more than 140 characters at a time.
Fuck Stanford!
Can we make this the BOC motto now?
"Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off."
That cartoon was classic! Love it. Gotta go with Nut though- why an ax and not his teeth? LOL… over analytical. ;)
I’m going to say it’s a nail biter again but Sharks come out with a victory. GO SHARKS!!!!!
Waiting for the Cup to come to SJ since 1991...
GO SHARKS!
why an ax and not his teeth?
For the same reason he’s on fire: Rule of Cool.
Los Angeles, like Hell, is not easily conquered.
Battle of California
Get used to it — you work your ass off on a cartoon, draw one predator that looks like a walrus, and that’s all anyone will comment on. :)
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we await the return of the walrus
Shark fans in a "frenzy" after another playoff ouster
Go Ducks!
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Apr 21, 2011 8:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh yeah, and it was such a historic, once in a generation comeback that another team did the same thing one night later! (I know it was one goal less)
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
You just answered your own question – it was one goal less. So not the same thing. ha! :)
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
Well last night must have been the start of the next generation then.
Los Angeles, like Hell, is not easily conquered.
Battle of California
by Megalodon on Apr 21, 2011 8:24 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Was that Patrick Stewart between the benches?
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
THERE ARE FOUR GOALS!
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by Mike Chen on Apr 21, 2011 9:17 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
Watched that Caps/Rangers game and it just didn’t have the same “wow” and dumbfounded factor than the Sharks comeback did. And poor Henrik- if I were him, I’d have smacked Maid Marion over the head after that blunder last night in OT. Yikes!
Waiting for the Cup to come to SJ since 1991...
GO SHARKS!
Yeah, because you’re not a Caps fan.
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
by Nut on Apr 21, 2011 8:29 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I think Lunqvist’s WTF pose afterward said it all.
I feel really, really bad for Lundqvist because he played a hell of a game only to have such a bonehead play end it.
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I think you can say something similiar for all of Ny’s losses. That guy needs to move.
by ScottyKnows on Apr 21, 2011 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions
I did read somewhere on this blog that the Caps are the Sharks of the East.
by meetyourmako on Apr 21, 2011 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions
That's not really being fair...
The Washington Capitals did make it to a Stanley Cup Finals back in 1998.
Dear Sharks, C U Next Thursday!!!!
by DodgerBlueBalls on Apr 21, 2011 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
But they lost, right? So they’re more like the Kings of the East?
Los Angeles, like Hell, is not easily conquered.
Battle of California
by Megalodon on Apr 21, 2011 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
Close. The Kings actually managed to win a game in the finals, though.
Dear Sharks, C U Next Thursday!!!!
by DodgerBlueBalls on Apr 21, 2011 9:23 AM PDT up reply actions
That’s right! I said it, wana fight about it?
by ScottyKnows on Apr 21, 2011 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions
awesome cartoon…well done
Shark fans in a "frenzy" after another playoff ouster
Go Ducks!
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Apr 21, 2011 8:19 AM PDT reply actions
My hat is off to the cartoon that brought me out of lurkerville
The '05-06, '06-07', and '07-'08 Sharks were not ever good enough to win the Cup. They were just good enough to lose in the 2nd round. That's not choking people!
by OpenWater on Apr 21, 2011 9:02 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
more cartoons meg..we need the lurkers to show themselves!!..someone is voting on all those polls!
Shark fans in a "frenzy" after another playoff ouster
Go Ducks!
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Apr 21, 2011 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions
SHARKS!!!
Are we seeing the beginning of the BOC Cartoon Wars? Nice Meg!
THE KINGS MUST FALL!!!
STAY CLASSY?!?!? Your fucking killin' me here...
Nice cartoon Meg!
It’s nice seeing some artwork on this site.
Fear The Fin's Fifth-String Moderator !!
by idunno723 on Apr 21, 2011 9:52 AM PDT reply actions 5 recs
I’m uncomfortable by all the Sharks’ fans proclaiming their readiness for Detroit in the 2nd round already.
First off, why would the schedule makers allow some teams to have finished four games before our third game even started (Chicago/Vancouver), but Sharks still have to win two of four (preferably fewer) to end this first round matchup.
Like Meg mentioned, we’ve yet to see the Sharks put up a 60 minute effort, let alone an 80 minute one. The team that wins in OT is always lucky to score first, and now we’ve done it twice. I hope we’re not using up all our mojo on a team that probably would have fallen out of the playoffs if the season had been five games longer.
/end buttercrunch
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Don't worry
Chicago will win out and the whole Red Wings thing will we moot.
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"The only crying allowed in hockey is when you lose a playoff series, retire or JR is speaking publicly." - Jamie Baker
"You are down with the homies, my friend." - Randy Hahn
Kent Huskins cares.
Also, I get the feeling that Phoenix is coming back in that series. History will be made!
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That go ahead goal was weaksauce. He shoulda been there.
by ScottyKnows on Apr 21, 2011 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Great GIF, Megs
It distracts my elementary school teacher side from the grammatical monstrosity in the gameday title. ;-)
Fear The Fin = Man goes into cage... Cage goes into salsa... Shark's in the salsa... Our shark.
He did that intentionally. :)
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
Meaning … he didn’t want to be the only one not in Spade’s Army.
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
I still say this way is better.
Los Angeles, like Hell, is not easily conquered.
Battle of California
I know… it’s still jarring.
Fear The Fin = Man goes into cage... Cage goes into salsa... Shark's in the salsa... Our shark.
So I get that the King represents the victors of World War I, who relaxed after downing their opponent instead of remaining vigilant; and I get that the Shark is Germany, initially felled only to come back even stronger than before armed with a combo of Fascism (the fire) and an advanced military-industrial complex (the axe)… but what does the sandwich represent?
Hmmmm…. (*Smokes pipe)
by RudyKelly on Apr 21, 2011 11:14 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Neville Chamberlain?
Fear The Fin = Man goes into cage... Cage goes into salsa... Shark's in the salsa... Our shark.
I’d say the sandwich represents Treaty of Versailles and the reparations it demanded.
by meetyourmako on Apr 21, 2011 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions
wrong WW but i don’t care, pipe!
Мы в любовь играли,
И как кровь из вены капает слеза.
CHAMPIONSHIP BABY!!!!
The pipe, of course, refers to Stalin’s subliminal desire to suck a black man’s penis. Not mine, though; my desire’s liminal.
by RudyKelly on Apr 21, 2011 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Why is it always a black man’s?? Why always so racist?? sheesh!
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
Now that Stalin’s dead, we may never know.
by meetyourmako on Apr 21, 2011 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Here is an image of a painting of a pipe:
by meetyourmako on Apr 21, 2011 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions
but it says it’s not a pipe…
Мы в любовь играли,
И как кровь из вены капает слеза.
CHAMPIONSHIP BABY!!!!
It's not a pipe.
It’s an image of a painting of a pipe.
by meetyourmako on Apr 21, 2011 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
wait… there’s a text in the picture of painting of pipe to tell it’s not an actual pipe? shouldn’t that be quite obvious?
/after midnight, my brain is on sleepy mode…
Мы в любовь играли,
И как кровь из вены капает слеза.
CHAMPIONSHIP BABY!!!!
I think that’s the idea, but who can fathom the depths of Magritte’s mind?
by meetyourmako on Apr 21, 2011 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
What's with all the art references lately?
And c’mon people, this is BoC, I’d think this would be more our style:
Heh, toilets…
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"The only crying allowed in hockey is when you lose a playoff series, retire or JR is speaking publicly." - Jamie Baker
"You are down with the homies, my friend." - Randy Hahn
Kent Huskins cares.
well… art is a “vehicle for the expression or communication of emotions and ideas” :P
Мы в любовь играли,
И как кровь из вены капает слеза.
CHAMPIONSHIP BABY!!!!
just like a urinal is a “vehicle for the expulsion or excommunication of ammonias and ureas”!
by meetyourmako on Apr 21, 2011 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions
but what does the sandwich represent?
Deliciousness.
Los Angeles, like Hell, is not easily conquered.
Battle of California
Rudy’s cartoon is still the gold standard…
earl please post rudys cartoon
Shark fans in a "frenzy" after another playoff ouster
Go Ducks!
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Apr 21, 2011 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions
come to think of it..with perrys awesome season..Im shocked it didnt make an apperance
Shark fans in a "frenzy" after another playoff ouster
Go Ducks!
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Apr 21, 2011 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I only have the T-Shirt one handy.
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by Earl Sleek on Apr 21, 2011 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I hear those shirts are on back order..still waiting for mine
Shark fans in a "frenzy" after another playoff ouster
Go Ducks!
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Apr 21, 2011 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Niemi is starting, and McLellan wants to maybe change up the fourth line.
Source.
The fourth line was really good at generating energy and chances in game one, but they were a big liability in game three. The Sharks really don’t want to be in the business of trying to fight their way through the kings, but it would be nice to have a fourth line that could be thrown out there to generate some chances or at the very least not be a huge risk. We’ll see.
Los Angeles, like Hell, is not easily conquered.
Battle of California
haha … my youngest is saying that the “O Canada” in french sounds like gibberish.
GO SHARKS!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
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by Angy on Apr 21, 2011 4:15 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Dirty dirty Ducks.
Los Angeles, like Hell, is not easily conquered.
Battle of California
by Megalodon on Apr 21, 2011 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
How many Ducks can be suspended this post-season – that is what we want to know. :)
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
You would think by the time your children are 19 and 14, you wouldn’t have to hear “Mom Patrick is refusing to help”, “Mom he touched me” … UGH!
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
If they're anything like me and my brothers
they’ll be doing it into their 20s, although it should end before the oldest is 30.
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"The only crying allowed in hockey is when you lose a playoff series, retire or JR is speaking publicly." - Jamie Baker
"You are down with the homies, my friend." - Randy Hahn
Kent Huskins cares.
Hahaha. I blame the parenting…
"Thank you very much fans and let’s go for the next game together!"
— Lubomir Visnovsky
I rec’d that shit.
It’s not always the parents.
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
No. But in this case…..
"Thank you very much fans and let’s go for the next game together!"
— Lubomir Visnovsky
I rec’d that shit.
I blame you.
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
No. Your children would be complaining about the other killing a few of their friends or such, if it was my fault.
"Thank you very much fans and let’s go for the next game together!"
— Lubomir Visnovsky
I rec’d that shit.
Patrick is refusing to help
he touched me
Things heard in the Sharks locker room
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
by Nut on Apr 21, 2011 5:18 PM PDT up reply actions 6 recs
I’m trying to not laugh at this.
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
Give in. You know its true.
"Thank you very much fans and let’s go for the next game together!"
— Lubomir Visnovsky
I rec’d that shit.
NEVER!
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
Come on after that weird shit between Wallin and Murray on the plane and CloweXCooch….
"Thank you very much fans and let’s go for the next game together!"
— Lubomir Visnovsky
I rec’d that shit.
You leave your fantasies out of this.
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
More like yours than mine…
"Thank you very much fans and let’s go for the next game together!"
— Lubomir Visnovsky
I rec’d that shit.
My fantasies are a tad different.
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
Oh yeah?
"Thank you very much fans and let’s go for the next game together!"
— Lubomir Visnovsky
I rec’d that shit.
This doesn’t involve you! :)
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
Maybe he knowS something I don’t…..
"Thank you very much fans and let’s go for the next game together!"
— Lubomir Visnovsky
I rec’d that shit.
and that right there is how rumors start ladies and gentlemen … ha!
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
Why would anyone want a royal ring and why does the announcer having a british accent make it anymore appealing. sheesh people are stupid if they buy that nonsense.
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
question
If a player gets signed to an entry level contract, is he guarenteed to be playing next season?
don't doubt the dough.
by DoughlarBear on Apr 21, 2011 6:29 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Do you mean in the NHL next season?
I don’t think that’s the case. Otherwise, we would have seen Thomas Hickey playing a while ago.
Dear Sharks, C U Next Thursday!!!!
by DodgerBlueBalls on Apr 21, 2011 6:45 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
cameron abney got signed to an entry level contract
Will he be playing next year..? Like fersher?
don't doubt the dough.
by DoughlarBear on Apr 21, 2011 6:48 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I imagine they would be in the pro leagues. But that doesn’t exclude them from playing in the AHL next season.
Dear Sharks, C U Next Thursday!!!!
by DodgerBlueBalls on Apr 21, 2011 6:56 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
So there’s a possibility he won’t be in the nhl?
don't doubt the dough.
by DoughlarBear on Apr 21, 2011 7:16 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Great work Meg
Too bad the other slackers on this site aren’t as creative as you.
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Ssory Doc
Boston wins in OT
GO SHARKS!
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 (see profile for more info on this quote)
You could say Montreal paid the Price
/Puts on sunglasses
//Cue up The Who song
Adopted Giant: William VanLandingham
I'm on the Twitters
Ssory Doc
by 49er16 on Apr 21, 2011 7:02 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
Gamethread for tonight has been posted. Go comment there, you filthy animals.
Los Angeles, like Hell, is not easily conquered.
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