GDT: Game 66: Sharks vs. Predators 7:30pm NBCSCA

[Lebanezer]

 

[YUPPY 2 7 10 11]

Sharks win this one 4-3
Hope to see Romanov in goal
Celly, Smith Eklund, and Liljegren.

 

[coooldude]

NSH on a 3-game win streak vs. bad teams but barely beat CHI at home.

Anger-splosion from the Shorks.
5-3 Sharks
Celly, Smitty, Ekky, Giles, Ferraro
Forsberg, Marchesseault, Stammer

 

[LadyStanley]

 

[Juxtaposer]

Woof, that defense. We're truly going to see what happens when a stoppable object meets a moveable force (Nashville's offense) today.

That fourth line is something.

 

[Pavelski2112]

Woof, that defense. We're truly going to see what happens when a stoppable object meets a moveable force (Nashville's offense) today.

That fourth line is something.

I literally laughed out loud

 

[LadyStanley]

 

[weastern bias]

TANK BOWL!!!!!



SNOG 3-1 NSH

Stamkos, Marchessault, O'Reilly

Kun. . . Celebrini

 

[Pavelski2112]

 

[PattyLafontaine]

SNOG
Nashville - 3 (Forsberg, Stamkos, Marchessault)
Sharks -2 (Celebrini, Eklund)

 

[TheBigDrunkPanda]

Equally bad team unfortunately like last game they have better goalie tendering.
5-3 Bredators
Stammer, March E Sew, Forsberg, Josi, ORiely autoparts
Mack, Smitty, Enragedlund

 

[Juxtaposer]

We're totally going to see Gregor on a line with Celebrini just because Ryan Warsofsky hates me personally.

Wait, I thought of something worse. Gregor-Smith-Goodrow. Just kill me now.

 

[TheBigDrunkPanda]

That’s concerning news with Eklund, his ELC expires after next season, that’s not a whole lot of time to get this thing going in the right direction

 

[Jargon]

That’s concerning news with Eklund, his ELC expires after next season, that’s not a whole lot of time to get this thing going in the right direction

I’m pretty sure he just wants to not be last place 3 years in a row. And I think he’s tired of losing 60% of the guys on his team every trade deadline cause the team sucks.

I think, like the fans, dude just wants to see forward momentum. It’s a very big summer for Grier.

 

[Cas]

I don't understand why people are constantly defaulting to the falling sky motif.

Eklund is a pro, this happens all the time, he can't go anywhere in the NHL for years anyway without the Sharks agreement, we're not relocating, etc.

 

[MackAttack71]

Sharks 5 (Mack / Smitty / Gecko / Graf / Kovalenko)
Preds 4 (Stamkos / Evangelista / Forsberg / Muchass...)

 

[Lebanezer]

We're totally going to see Gregor on a line with Celebrini just because Ryan Warsofsky hates me personally.

Wait, I thought of something worse. Gregor-Smith-Goodrow. Just kill me now.

Don’t let the bad thoughts win!

 

[The Nemesis]

I don't understand why people are constantly defaulting to the falling sky motif.

Eklund is a pro, this happens all the time, he can't go anywhere in the NHL for years anyway without the Sharks agreement, we're not relocating, etc.

It sucks for Eklund that this happened. I get people empathizing with him and to a degree I get people wondering if this could have some amount of negative impact on him going forward. But I don't get how everyone's first reaction is to leap right to presuming that he's gone as soon as his contract is up or that he's going to hold out and demand a trade now, or not accept his RFA deal or whatever. Going from everything being fine to immediately assuming or projecting the worst possible outcome is nuts. It's just weird that one deadline trade suddenly seems to have shifted everything in that direction.

Eklund is going to bail (even though there's plenty of time for him to get over this and be just fine like 99% of the other cases like this that have happened in the past)

The team is never going to win again and be stuck in a perpetual tank (even though Grier has gone on record saying that the days of purposefully ripping apart the roster for futures ended at the deadline)

The team is going to suck so much and Plattner is gutting the club's expenses so a sale and relocation becomes a possibility (even though that is such a far-off, pie-in-the-sky thing that it's not even worth considering yet and the cost-cutting this was 100% randomly just pulled from thin air groundless speculation.)

You'd think that we were in year 6 of a perpetual rebuild with no hope in sight and not in basically year 2.5/3 of the rebuild proper with the best prospect pool in the league and a cornerstone player who comes closer to embodying the "generational player" status than basically anyone we've ever seen in franchise history besides maybe/probably Jumbo.

 

[Timo Time]

I would to see Celebrini and Wennberg switch as well as Kostin and Kovalenko swapping. God that bottom-6 and defense are things of absolute nightmares

 

[Cas]

The sky is falling ideas remind me of when people were seriously concerned that Smith or Celebrini would hold out to become a college UFA.

 

[Juxtaposer]

The sky is falling ideas remind me of when people were seriously concerned that Smith or Celebrini would hold out to become a college UFA.

Remember when Celebrini wasn't going to sign with the Sharks?

 

[vortexy]

Thinking the Sharks could use a win for morale and will win either this game or the Chicago one. I would prefer they win this one and lose to Chicago to kind of lock up 32nd in the league.

Sharks 6-4

Celebrini x2, Smith, Eklund, Toffoli, Wennberg
Forsberg, Stamkos, O'Reilly, Marchessault

 

[coooldude]

I would prefer they win this one and lose to Chicago to kind of lock up 32nd in the league.

Speaking of which, the magic number is 29, and a regular L to CHI would make that number 25, plus they'd be 8 points up on us with ~16 games to go. Absolutely I'm hoping for a win tonight and a straight up loss on Thurs.

 

[Timo Time]

Remember when Celebrini wasn't going to sign with the Sharks?

He's still fuming about the Jr. Sharks situation

 

[Cas]

He's still fuming about the Jr. Sharks situation

Just waiting until he can score an own goal in overtime of Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final.