GDT: Game 37 Sharks @ Mack's home town team (aka Derranged Oreo Dolphins) 6pm

[coooldude]

3-2 Sharks - Asky wins one for us. Quinn may be out, but so is Walman. Canucks are actually a middle of the pack team.

Everyone is predicting Celebrini success, so I'm gonna go the other way.

Smith (hopeful, not likely), Zetterlund, Wennberg.
For the media lulz, Pettersson, Miller.

 

[The Nemesis]

Or, it's a reward for Askarov before they send him down again when Vanecek gets healthy. Don't think this start really means much in the greater scheme of things.

This.

Askarov still has things to work on and the team is not going to carry 3 goalies for the rest of the year when one of them can be sent down without consequence and get starter's minutes in the process.

Just this year we were gifted with "The Great Barrier Thief"

The NBA still has great nicknames, it's just hockey that sucks with everyone calling each other "Celly" or "Smitty", real creative shit there boys

NBA has some shit nicknames though. There are lots of ones that are just initials or initials plus number. Also I feel like a lot of the time NBA nicknames feel like branding exercises coming from the player themselves rather than given by teammates or reporters.


Happy to see some Grizzlies mentions though

I have minor Big Country 'nam flashbacks now though. He wasn't bad during his rookie season but it became clear quickly that he wasn't really big on playing basketball and he got out of shape and that destroyed him.

No word of a lie though, Shareef Abdur-Rahim was my very first favorite basketball player. And the first ever sports jersey I ever got. It's still in my closet somewhere.

I just ended up jumping ship from the Grizzlies to the Raptors during the rise of Vinsanity and once it became clear the team was not going to last here. Would love to see Vancouver and Seattle get new teams though and make like a "Pacific corridor" that stretches from the bay area, up through Sacramento, Portland, Seattle and ending in Vancouver.

 

[bullslugg]

Canucks 3, Boeser, Garland, Joshua,
Sharks 4, Celly, Smith, Zetts, Kovo

 

[Chinaski89]

Porpoises 3 - Debrusk, Garland, Miller
Sharks 4 - Celly , Goodrow (lol) Zetts, Toffoli

Edited because real Russian is in net and not ex USSR Russian in net.

 

[LadyStanley]

 

[Juxtaposer]

The Canucks kinda blow without Hughes. That'll make or break this game.

 

[tahoesharksfan]

I have minor Big Country 'nam flashbacks now though. He wasn't bad during his rookie season but it became clear quickly that he wasn't really big on playing basketball and he got out of shape and that destroyed him.

I have friends who were working up there at the time. They had some joke going around about his name?
Something like "Sleep Country" (after some mattress store chain), or something.....

 

[LadyStanley]

So, Nem, how is watching game via Amazon Prime?

 

[The Nemesis]

I have friends who were working up there at the time. They had some joke going around about his name?
Something like "Sleep Country" (after some mattress store chain), or something.....

Yeah. Sleep Country is the biggest mattress/bed retail chain in Canada.

I think people kinda liked him as a rookie and he was decent. Nearly a double-double and a good sort of center that doesn't exist anymore. But then he got his big extension and started getting hurt and he turned into a big, immobile tub that just coasted through games.

He also wasn't helped by the fact that the league sold the Grizzlies' ownership a bill of goods by foisting league head office guy Stu Jackson on them as their first GM. He made some good expansion draft picks, but he seemed to alternate good draft picks with ass ones and never really felt like he was building a proper team as opposed to just a mess of talented guys that didn't fit together and also some junk players like Stromile Swift or Antonio Daniels or the debacle of drafting Steve Francis and then trading him for a mediocre return because they had no leverage.

Found my jersey too

Sadly not an authentic because then the collar/arm trim would've been that really cool native motif of claws and other stuff instead of just boring color bands.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

So, Nem, how is watching game via Amazon Prime?

Kinda wish we got the Prime feed. I like John Forslund and the Prime games have been really nice from a graphics perspective.

 

[Star Platinum]

Just this year we were gifted with "The Great Barrier Thief"

The NBA still has great nicknames, it's just hockey that sucks with everyone calling each other "Celly" or "Smitty", real creative shit there boys

Most NBA nicknames are someone's first initial with the first few letters of their last name or something a player gave himself and tries to convince other people to use.

 

[The Nemesis]

So, Nem, how is watching game via Amazon Prime?

I haven't perfected time travel into the future yet, so I'll have to tell you in an hour.

 

[Barrie22]

I haven't perfected time travel into the future yet, so I'll have to tell you in an hour.

Yeah san jose still doesn't get many games on prime. Really need to figure out a way to stream these games.

 

[Star Platinum]

SNOG:

Canucks 3 (Boeser, Garland, Petersson)
Sharks 2 (Smith, Zetterlund)

 

[The Nemesis]

So there's no pre-game. It's just cameras on the ice watching warmups with ambient audio and no commentary or anything.

It's kinda cool but also weird.

 

[The Nemesis]

Just saw Thrun on the ice with no helmet and realized that I've never really seen him before except mid-game. He looks like the assistant to the regional vice president of business development.

 

[The Nemesis]

Great. I'm not finished eating but Amazon decided it was important to watch Sherwood on the Canucks blow snot rockets onto the ice.... Gross.

 

[Tw1ster]

God damn, I forgot Kiefer Sherwood was on the Nucks, he murders us and has had a great season so far.

 

[Juxtaposer]

Just saw Thrun on the ice with no helmet and realized that I've never really seen him before except mid-game. He looks like the assistant to the regional vice president of business development.

He looks like he went to Harvard. Don't think I have to explain what I mean any further.

 

[The Nemesis]

He looks like he went to Harvard. Don't think I have to explain what I mean any further.

I bet he has strong opinions on the capital gains tax.

 

[Barrie22]

God damn, I forgot Kiefer Sherwood was on the Nucks, he murders us and has had a great season so far.

12 points in 17 career games, he had 1 good season against us where he scored 7 of those 12 in 4 games.

 

[Mafoofoo]

Yeah. Sleep Country is the biggest mattress/bed retail chain in Canada.

I think people kinda liked him as a rookie and he was decent. Nearly a double-double and a good sort of center that doesn't exist anymore. But then he got his big extension and started getting hurt and he turned into a big, immobile tub that just coasted through games.

He also wasn't helped by the fact that the league sold the Grizzlies' ownership a bill of goods by foisting league head office guy Stu Jackson on them as their first GM. He made some good expansion draft picks, but he seemed to alternate good draft picks with ass ones and never really felt like he was building a proper team as opposed to just a mess of talented guys that didn't fit together and also some junk players like Stromile Swift or Antonio Daniels or the debacle of drafting Steve Francis and then trading him for a mediocre return because they had no leverage.

Found my jersey too

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Sadly not an authentic because then the collar/arm trim would've been that really cool native motif of claws and other stuff instead of just boring color bands.

I see a lack of BC Lions gear there Nem

 

[The Nemesis]

I see a lack of BC Lions gear there Nem

I have a Lions toque in my winter clothes bucket in the closet and a golf shirt. Haven't gotten a jersey yet, but I don't love the current designs (too much black. Not enough orange)

 

[Alaskanice]

Go Sharks!!

 

[Barrie22]

Canuckles 2
Sharks 4
Celebrin 2+2
Smith, kunin