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Sharks Rock
Fans' predicament is like Peanuts' Halloween Special
| 3/10/10 - By Paul Krill -
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Being a Sharks fan can seem like being Charlie
Brown on Halloween. While all his fellow trick-or-treaters get candy, hapless
Charlie Brown keeps getting rocks. For that matter, being a Sharks fan at
playoff time can seem like being Charlie's pal Linus on Halloween, too. Linus
skips trick-or-treating altogether, opting to wait for the mythical Great
Pumpkin who never shows up.
If it's not obvious, the rocks and the
Great Pumpkin's no-show would be the equivalent of what Sharks fans experience
at playoff time every year. We're hopeful for success, but we never get it.
I don't want to whine too much, but I've just finished watching what
was left of "Desperate Housewives" after seeing Dan Boyle put the puck in his
own net in Game 3, sealing another playoff defeat for the top-seeded Sharks
against the eighth-seeded Avalanche. (I know Dan Boyle is one of the top Sharks
of all time - it would have been less painful if a lesser player had made this
mistake.)
Let's see: top-seeded Sharks losing to eighth-seeded team in
first round of playoffs. Why does this all seem so familiar? Like we went
through this all last year? Oh that's right, we actually did go through all
this last year.
The Sharks have been dominant against the Avalanche
everywhere but the scoreboard, grabbing the lead only when winning Game 2 in
OT. The team could easily be down three games to none right now.
Of
course, there's still time for the Sharks to come back in this series. Perhaps
I was just hoping for the Sharks to stomp on their lower seeded opponent. But
that doesn't seem to be happening in any of the NHL playoff series this year so
far. The other #1 seed, Washington, has had similar troubles with #8 Montreal.
But if the Sharks don't come back and win this series,
we could be seeing the Shark finales this week of players such as Evgeni
Nabokov and Patrick Marleau. It would be a shame to see these guys go, after
following them for a decade or more.
I'm hoping by this time next
week, this column will be laughingly obsolete. Come on, Sharks - make it
happen.
…Penalty Shots: I was a bit reluctant to file this column
because The Hockey News also recently used a Peanuts analogy on the Sharks. But
I had already thought of some of these ideas before ever reading the THN item.
Really.
Contact Paul at at pjkrillsharks@yahoo.com
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