GDT: Flam @ Shark, Late on a Monday Night

[The Nemesis]

I wonder when the Sharks try to improve? They trade for a #1 goalie who they don't play, they got there #1 (and #2) center(s). They got a top pairing guy (they hope) in Dickenson.

Surely they try and be competitive next year?

Sharks fan who's been occasionally seeing what's going on on this side tonight. So a couple of clarifications

1) Askarov is hurt. He probably would've been up with the big club after the deadline if he wasn't dealing with injuries. Otherwise the plan always seemed to be to not over-expose him to the Sharks' defensive efforts (and I use that term only in the loosest sense I can get away with)

2) The jury is still out on Smith's future position. He's looked a lot more comfortable this year as a winger. Maybe he grows out of that, maybe not. I don't think anyone's ready to anoint him as a for-sure 2C vs a 1RW

3) This team is still bad. Like... really bad. Generously they have 3.5 top 6 Fs right now, with slight discounting of Toffoli (age and streakiness) and Graf (unproven) and maybe 1 top 4 D (Ferraro feels like an iffy nominee for that job. Mukhamadullin was trending there, then he got his season ended on a dirty hit last week) and an absolute joke of a goalie in Georgiev. They're probably 3 years away from looking seriously dangerous.

I think most reasonable Sharks fans expect that the goal next year is to maybe be a bottom 3-5 team in the league instead of being dead last with a bullet. Believe it or not, this awful, awful season already actually represents an improvement for them.

But Celebrini is super fun, so there's that.

 

[MrLunatik]

f***

 

[Boomstick]

Exact same deal as Vegas. Play a lousy 1st period and they score late. Honestly without Wolf it's 4-0 Sharks right now.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Might as well not even come out for first periods if you're going to play like that.

 

[Straight Fire]

Was just a matter of time

 

[Boomstick]

Kind of getting sick of hearing Wee-GAR too. lol.

 

[super6646]

That was a blah-gar period. Get it? Blah-gar…

 

[Straight Fire]

Good job NBC

RIP Millen

 

[JPeeper]

Do or die game against one of the all time worst teams in league history and we're getting outshot 19-8.

bruuhhhhhhhhh

 

[Boomstick]

Ras and Bahl on for 9 minutes in that period. That's too much. Ras with another -1.

 

[super6646]

Andersson eating yet another minus. He’s just had a brutal year.

 

[Anglesmith]

Horrible period. Huska would be tearing his hair out if he hadn't already.

 

[JPeeper]

Ras and Bahl on for 9 minutes in that period. That's too much. Ras with another -1.

Huska has to rely on our top guys because the bottom pair is so so bad. Problem is our top guys are more like 2nd pairing guys. You'd think they'd be fine against the lowly Sharks, but they just look burnt out.

 

[super6646]

Huska has to rely on our top guys because the bottom pair is so so bad. Problem is our top guys are more like 2nd pairing guys. You'd think they'd be fine against the lowly Sharks, but they just look burnt out.

God I hope Zayne gets a game on this trip. Certainly by the time he back in Calgary. I’d rather watch him make mistakes and QB our top pp than watch Jake Bean huff air.

 

[crazyfisherman]

Getting rekt by the sharks in a must win game was certainly not on my bingo card, anderssons really pissing me off with hes effort too

 

[Straight Fire]

If we squeak into the playoffs we'd get hung on the bathroom door by our undies for 4 games straight.

 

[Bounces R Way]

If we squeak into the playoffs we'd get hung on the bathroom door by our undies for 4 games straight.

So pessimistic, I could see us scoring 3 maybe even 4 goals against Winnipeg

 

[Felidae]

Wee GAR lol

 

[Bounces R Way]

Backlund got Cele-cooked
not sure how much he's got left in the tank at this point

 

[Boomstick]

Wtf was that Backlund? You didn't see the STOP sign on the back of the jersey?

 

[super6646]

Lol he said weeGAR and then Weegar properly on the same play. PBP is trolling

 

[Tkachuk Norris]

Andersson eating yet another minus. He’s just had a brutal year.

Sign him 8 years 9 million!!! He’s elite!!! If we don’t sign him we are Buffalo

 

[JPeeper]

Just win to worsen the pick we send to Montreal, I can't see us making up the 6 points, beating the Wild AND THEN still have to beat Vegas and LA in the final 2 games.

Send off Andersson in the off-season and ship out even more vets, we don't need a leadership group of 8 players (Sportsnet reported that the 8 leaders had a dinner the other day), clearly it doesn't work.

 

[super6646]

Awwwww WeeGAR is done now. Ngl it was kinda funny.

 

[Felidae]

Can we have an easy game for once, holy shit.

Every game just has to be an uphill battle or an equal duel with this team.