Ugh****ty end to season, excited to see what the team looks like next season, if we saw jumbo’s last game in teal I’ll never forget the angry joe screaming at Bryan little firing up the crowd and then beast mode one-t to tierney for a ppg.
Fav player and that shift summed up what he does best and why he’s my fav.
Ugh
I just now remembered. In the post game, Jeremy Roenick made a special shoutout to Thornton, as if he had an inkling that this might be the end of his career. Saying stuff like ''What a terrible way to go out being injured, if he does decide to hang them up, what a great career'' etc. I never got the feeling that he was not gonna play next year.
Does he possibly know something that we don't?
Tough loss, i still think the sharks are the better team but vegas i guess has that magic this year.
Still a pretty good season for you guys, did a lot better than i thought they would and i kinda agree with joe thornton not playing hurting a bit more theb people maybe gave credit. 2 years in a row where you guys had significant injuries down the middle.
On the plus side at least you didnt get swept in 1st round like the rest of california ;(
See you guys next year! any young players you guys are excited to see possibly make the roster next year? Dont know a whole lot about shark prospect pools outside the guy that played with troy terry at denver.
Not sure if its been mentioned any where but fleury admits to not seeing many of the shots he stopped in the 1st period of game 6.
Just a bit of a post mortem thought here:
If any 2 of Pavelski, Vlasic, Burns, or Jones played at their 2016 level, I think we win this series fairly easily.
Our top players completely let us down for the second year in a row. Pavelski has let us down in every single series since he wrecked the Blues. Jones had his first real bad series so I’ll cut him some slack but Burns has been terrible since 3/4 into the 2016/2017 season. Vlasic completely fell off a cliff.
The issue here is that once Pavelski’s contract is renewed, all 4 of these guys are probably going to be paid based on their 2016 performance. In no world does 2018 Burns deserve $8M/7Y, or 2018 Vlasic deserve $7M/8y, or 2018 Jones deserve $5.75M/7Y. And those contracts are what they have left after this season!
I think term is the problem with those contracts, not really the AAV. Resigning Pavs based on past performance would be the real back breaker. Hopefully we get 1 more good year out of him then let him walk, because we know he isnt getting traded.
I disagree with 2018 Jones not earning that contract given his age and performance. He's fine. Everyone else is agreeable. Burns produces roughly enough for the salary but is too old for the term.
Jones might be a bit of an overreaction and his contract may not be a serious issue with the cap rising but it’s still pretty disappointing to look back on this series and say that if we swap goalies, the Sharks are probably playing Winnipeg right now.
Burns’ production is fine for his cap hit but his defensive play is downright terrible.
If Fleury saw the kind of opportunities that Vegas was getting, I'd doubt he'd stop them either. Jones probably does better behind Vegas too. It doesn't really matter though. Jones has earned enough rope to give him a pass if you feel he disappointed you in the series. As for Burns, it's pretty normal for guys producing that much to give up a lot on the other end. That's not just unique to him.
Fleury was stopping breakaways a lot more than Jones was. Jones has earned enough rope, I won’t disagree with that, but I do believe that if you swapped the goalies, San Jose advances. Maybe if you cloned either one, they wouldn’t, but if you swapped them? I think so. Jones did not instill much confidence in me with how he played and that stuff trickles down to the team. Fleury, on the other hand; I had no confidence that we would score against him.
Burns had a -16 when the next worst Shark was -9 and his most common linemate was a +13. Then he was -4 in the playoffs with only one other Shark worse than him. He was terrible defensively this year.
Burns had a -16 when the next worst Shark was -9 and his most common linemate was a +13. Then he was -4 in the playoffs with only one other Shark worse than him. He was terrible defensively this year.