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Around the League '15-'16--Is it Summer Yet? Edition

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Ziggy Stardust said:
He's an ironman who hasn't missed a game over the past 5 seasons who logs a ton of minutes and plays in every situation.

Not sure what Sutter would have against him. Is there some bias I'm unaware of?
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He's smallish? That's all I can think of. Seems look a good fit to me.
 
We won our second cup just 2 years ago. But when a hated rival is on the verge of winning one, it does feel like it's been a decade since we had those glorious moments.
 
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Cooper seems pretty upbeat considering his team just lost game 7. He did a really good job considering all the injuries he had to deal with the entire playoffs.
 
Great exactly the two teams I absolutely did not want in the Finals now fighting for a title. I hope thornton never gets a cup and I cannot stand the pens. Lose, lose I guess. LOL! Go Pens! I think I'm gonna be sick.
 
Pens Sharks is pretty much my worst nightmare even if both teams are super deserving.

Have to think the Sharks are going to wreck the Pens weak defense.
 
It's a pretty lame matchup from our perspective. It's hard for me to think of who I don't want to win it the most.
 
Raccoon Jesus said:
Pens Sharks is pretty much my worst nightmare even if both teams are super deserving.

Have to think the Sharks are going to wreck the Pens weak defense.
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I'll up the ante by mentioning Sharks vs Rangers as my "please send me a box of paper bags" match-up.

Objectively speaking, both Sharks and Penguins earned their respective places in the 2016 SCF, as I have no say in this series.
 
My most hated matchup would've been Ducks vs. Rangers.

Agree with ADifferentTim, Sharks and Penguins both played the best hockey from their respective conferences. There was no doubt that they were the best teams to come out of the West/East.

And funny enough, the two worst looking teams during these playoffs were the Kings and Rangers. They both looked like slow, offensively inept teams who couldn't keep up against faster and more skilled competition, and that's why they were so easily disposed of by the two teams who will be playing for the Cup.

I'm more upset with the Kings' and their "don't give a ****" level of performance than I am with the Sharks being in the Cup Final.
 
Ziggy Stardust said:
My most hated matchup would've been Ducks vs. Rangers.

Agree with ADifferentTim, Sharks and Penguins both played the best hockey from their respective conferences. There was no doubt that they were the best teams to come out of the West/East.

And funny enough, the two worst looking teams during these playoffs were the Kings and Rangers. They both looked like slow, offensively inept teams who couldn't keep up against faster and more skilled competition, and that's why they were so easily disposed of by the two teams who will be playing for the Cup.

I'm more upset with the Kings' and their "don't give a ****" level of performance than I am with the Sharks being in the Cup Final.
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Especially once they clinched a playoff spot. They carried that attitude, starting with Sutter, all the way through the playoffs. Once the train came off the tracks, they were done. Dwight King on the top line during an elimination game, yep that will work.
 
kingsfan28 said:
Especially once they clinched a playoff spot. They carried that attitude, starting with Sutter, all the way through the playoffs. Once the train came off the tracks, they were done. Dwight King on the top line during an elimination game, yep that will work.
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Yep, the writing was on the wall before the playoffs even began. This team got way too arrogant and overconfident in their ability to "flip a switch." That **** doesn't work when your opponents are playing like they have something to prove.
 
Ziggy Stardust said:
1. My most hated matchup would've been Ducks vs. Rangers.

2. Agree with ADifferentTim, Sharks and Penguins both played the best hockey from their respective conferences. There was no doubt that they were the best teams to come out of the West/East.

3. And funny enough, the two worst looking teams during these playoffs were the Kings and Rangers. They both looked like slow, offensively inept teams who couldn't keep up against faster and more skilled competition, and that's why they were so easily disposed of by the two teams who will be playing for the Cup.

I'm more upset with the Kings' and their "don't give a ****" level of performance than I am with the Sharks being in the Cup Final.
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1. It seems the general consensus in the hockey community is "Non-NY Rangers fans do not to see the Rangers win the Stanley Cup ever again, in fears of the team, desecrating THE Cup; 1940 is case in point."

2. Pretty much. In real life, I had run-ins with Sharks fans:

A. A tall dude who eerily looks like Joe Thornton passed by in front of a church, within 10 minutes of walking distance to my house. I suspect a hockey reporter snitched on me to Joe.

B. When my younger sister and I dropped off our mom at LAX, a dude that eerily looked like Joe Thornton bumped into be behind my back. Happened Nov. 12, 2015.

C. This one SJS/NYR fan that attempted extortion on me five years ago somehow managed to find and even mocked me the day after the Kings got eliminated from the 2016. Get this: I did not even tell her where I work.

D. Sharks fans started showing up in SoCal, after the 2016 1st round series ended; some even showed up in Rancho Cucamonga. :help: Pardon my French, but m'aidez! :help:

Seriously, both times the Sharks won over the Kings were exclusively both 2011 and 2016, when AND where the Kings did not go into the playoffs with a full roster (read: more holes than Swiss cheese). Yet, a Sharks fan called me "salty" for pointing out this objective fact; of course, at the main board.

3. That's one of the reasons why I did call out Dean's sudden emulation of the late George Steinbrenner's "trade youth for now"; clearly backfired on Dean, truth be told.
 
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