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

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The Nemesis said:
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.
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What’s funny is that as far as rebuilds go, this one is actually moving forward quite well! Lucking into Celebrini was a huge moment for this franchise. Getting Askarov, Smith’s growth, Dickinson dropping, Chernyshov’s surge, etc. — all of these things have been tremendously good for us so far. We’re also going to get a huge piece this summer — either a potential franchise-altering defenseman or a very high skilled to complement a plethora of high skilled prospects.

Also, if you watch the players, they seem to love each other, love playing, have great friendships (see Toffoli’s video on instagram about why he Mack and Will spent the night in the same hotel room, it’s adorable), etc.

I get being tired of losing, but this team has a lot of great vibes and huge potential. As Sharks fans we need to take a collective breath and enjoy the good things. There will be pain along the way but hopefully it’s in service of building a winning team for the next decade plus.

Timo Time said:
He's still fuming about the Jr. Sharks situation
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Listen dude his dad hates the Sharks, someone I made up is close to the family and told me.
 
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The Nemesis said:
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.
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The Sarcasm is Strong with This One

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I'm in the mood for a Sharks win tonight.

Sharks 4 (Celebrini, Mukhamadullin, Wennberg, Graf)
Preds 3 (Forsberg, Marchessault, O'Reilly)

I say all that, yet my brain is telling me the Preds have enough scorers to put more than three on the board. Oh well, Big Game Georgi to the rescue!
 
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Wow I was thinking that this game was going to be a "must lose", but no, it's actually fine to win lol

In that case,
4-3 San jose sharrrrrksss

celebrini, toffoli, eklund, smith
forsberg, marchessault, stamkos
 
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coooldude said:
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.
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Want sharks to lose Thursday but Celebrini to dominate Bedard from eye-test and hopefully three even strength points against Bedard.
 
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LadyStanley said:
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Isn’t that toffoli in both photos?

Cas said:
It's literally nothing. Literally worrying about nothing. The same as the "Celebrini won't sign with us and will stay in college" nonsense.
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That one was dumb. It’s rare for a player to speak as bluntly as Eklund just did. He’s pissed.

Also, Teal Town just covered the Sharks arena hang-ups going on and how San Jose doesn’t seem to be working with the team. Something about San Jose Giants stadium screwing with the Sharks plans. I don’t think a move is as far-fetched as you all are saying.
 
Chinaski89 said:
That one was dumb. It’s rare for a player to speak as bluntly as Eklund just did. He’s pissed.
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It's people projecting their own fears and prejudices.

I love how ESPN+ is such garbage that getting the game to stream requires me to restart my browser close to twenty times on some occasions, and just works as designed on others.
 
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