Who would have thought that the Sharks, the number eight seed, would be leading the number one team in the NHL?
Well, for one, ME!
Sorry, but I need to leave and do my super happy dance.
I’m quite surprised at how the Sharks have made the Blues look bad. St. Louis hadn’t lost 3 game in a row all season.
Now, you do realize that if the Sharks do win this series, and that isn’t written in stone (St. Louis was down 3-1 to the Coyotes last year in the first round), the Blues will pobbly win the Cup within 2 years. That and the Sharks won’t make past the Stars in the Second round.
“And so he says to me ‘I don’t like the cut of your jib’. And I go, I says, ‘but it’s the only jib I’ve got baby’.”
Thank you, oh thank you, Sharks, for steamrolling a path back to the Finals for my beloved Red Wings.
The team we were most concerned with in this year’s playoffs is the Blues. Best case scenario: the Sharks eliminate 'em, then bang and pound on Dallas for six or seven games. Worst case scenario: Blues come back and win the series, but even then it will be seven very taxing games for them, while the old-timers on the Wings have a week to heal up.
The Wings can’t go for The Cup without going through a very tough series with either Colorado or Dallas, but that’s unavoidable in the Western Conference, and that’s as it should be.
I went to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s web site, just to read the whining. One of their columnists, while he did call out the Blues’ stars for being unproductive and taking dumb penalties, started the inevitable blaming of the referees, even taking a bizarre swipe at the Red Wings coach.
If this guy represents the mentality of the St. Louis team, um, perhaps if you forgot about the Red Wings for the time being and realized the Sharks are kicking your asses, you would do a little better.
I also was watching Blues-Sharks Game 3 on my friend’s satellite dish, and was getting the Blues broadcasting feed. The announcers were bitching that the Blues, with the exception of Game 1, hadn’t had any of the top officials work their playoff games.
Let’s see. You got one in Game 1, then didn’t for two games. What a crime! Not to mention the fact that every other series involves a team that’s won the Stanley Cup in the past four years.
The Blues won the President’s Cup. Whoopee! Here’s a little secret the NHL doesn’t want spread around - the regular season means virtually nothing. The Wings for several years in the '90s had the best regular-season record year-in and year-out, then would get bounced in the playoffs. They didn’t win back-to-back Cups until they started positioning their game more for the playoff grind, which resulted in their dropping back to third or fourth in the conference.
Ah, yes, the planets are aligning for the third Cup in four years for The Winged Wheel.
Give me immortality, or give me death!
Well, are we ready for game 7 today? Was that a whoopin’ on Sunday or what? 
It is unfortunate that the Blues will not be rested for round two, but perhaps with their adrenaline pumped and ready it will be an advantage for them.
You lucky people that have gotten to see all of the games! I’m jealous. Our local ABC pre-empted last Saturdays game for a baseball game. And we were travelling Friday. Another one we had no one broadcasting.
First of all, I’m a Jet, not a shark. (from my first cigarette ‘till my laaaaassst dyin’ day!). Second, usually only my very close friends call me Dem, but you can call me Demo.
I have chainmail underwear.
HEYOOOOOOOOOO!!!
To anyone who doubted my Sharks, I have two questions:
*What’s up now?
What’s up now?*
Shark (a definition): Star fodder.
Doug (Maple Leaf and Cub fan, boy he knows how to pick winners!)