Sharks/Preds Recap

Chardougla   2 November 2017

Fellow Sharks fans, I think we found a rivalry.

Over the years we’ve had several great rivalries. LA is obviously the pinnacle, and I’ve previously detailed why. Anaheim has also been a subject of our scorn. But people, I have been waiting and waiting for the Sharks to have a true inter-divisional rivalry ever since the Red Wings left the conference. Finally, finally, we have been delivered one. The Predators.

Tonights game is the stuff rivalries are made of. Now we’ve played the Preds a few times in the playoffs, but it never felt like the animosity of a LA or an Anaheim. This game, however, changes all of that.

It started like any other game, with fun back and forth play, and some high flying skills and goals and saves and inept power play from the Sharks. On a more hockey-related note, the way the Sharks have been skating and moving the puck these past 5-6 games is really refreshing. This is the kind of hockey that got us to the Cup Final. Keep it up Sharks. Anyways, back to blood feuds.

It was going fine, until Ryan Johansen took a chicken shit run at our beloved Pickles’ head, and creamed him into the boards. This is the kind of shit that pisses fans and players off. You don’t do that kind of garbage. Maxim Lapierre on Dan Boyle in 2013. Dustin Brown on Hertl also in 2013. This is the kind of bush league hockey that will insight a riot against you on the online message boards of Sharks fandom. Tremble in fear Ryan. Tremble.

And then, to top it all off, he only gets a 2 MINUTE MINOR?!?!? ARE YOU JOKING?!?!? Now I’ve never reffed a professional hockey game, so you may be thinking I don’t know what I’m talking about, but I’ve played NHL 18 a lot, and my Be a Pro has been ejected for boarding enough times that I know an ejection worthy hit when I see one. That was the kind of bullshit I pull when I’m bored of the game, but won’t sim because let’s face it, what kind of loser sims through Be a Pro, so instead I go head hunting with the sole purpose of being ejected or benched. That’s the level of dirty we’re talking about here. I am still livid about this.

Anyways, so as you can imagine, the Sharks players were more than a little peeved, as were us fans, and I distinctly recall commenting in the GDT “I want someone to fight Johansen rn”, and so I’m going to give myself comment of the night as Nostradamus because sure enough, Joe Pavelski, MUH MOTHERFUCKIN CAPTAIN, dropped the gloves with Johansen, ending it with a good old fashioned takedown. Sidenote, that is the kind of fighting that has a place in the game, not the boring old staged fights that happen all the time now. You take a run at one of our studs? Get ready to rumble big fella.

Anyways, due to this and the all around dirty ass shenanigans that occurred afterwards, I’m hereby crowning Nashville the next great cross-divisional rival of the Sharks.

Fuck you Nashville. Never forget, you’re our bitch during the playoffs. Think about how sad that is. We’re known for terrible playoffs, yet we own you.