Gameday! Sharks v...oh crap, The Wings
Written by Gray   
Thursday, 11 February 2010 10:57
Sharks v Red Wings

Today @ 4:30pm
NHLN-US, CSN-CA, KFOX
Hold onto your butts!

I think by now our disdain for the Red Wings has been made clear. This isn't just a fashionable sort of dislike, like the one most baseball fans have for the Yankees. It's a deep seated dislike based on that fact that the Wings are THE TEAM everyone is compared to. They're good. Really good. It drives me nuts. It doesn't matter how good your team is, they're not the Wings. Sometimes their fans get on my nerves too. Not to good fans, just the ones that are fan in name only and come into Sharks forums and crap all over everyone. They get really mean about it. And then they whine when the game gets called in a way that doesn't suit their needs. Ugh. Shut up. You're giving Wings fans a bad name and it just makes me irrationally dislike your team more.

Adding to the drama is that any game against the Wings is always a "statement game." I guess I feel like a team makes more of a statement when they lose a game that, on paper, they should have won easily. So you beat the big guys. So what? You could go on to lose the next few games afterwards. So does a game like this mean any more than any other game against the not Wings? I don't know that it does.

What I do know is that the Sharks haven't been playing their best hockey, and last night that finally bit them in the butt. Tonight isn't so much about "can they beat the Wings" as it's about "can they raise their level of play?" If they can, they have a  good chance out there tonight, despite a less than impressive record at The Joe. If they can't, well...as the infamous Todd Bertuzzi once said "it is what it is."

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But...
written by Evilducks, February 11, 2010
We out-shot the BJ's 40-21. That means we played good right? That's what Cinco de Mayo told me...
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written by ZeroIndulgence, February 11, 2010
I was at the last game we played against the Wings at HP a few weeks back. And, I have to say, the Red Wings fans in attendance that night, at least in my section, were some of the most classless assholes I'd ever come across. I actually was so pissed off at the end of the game from a combination of the fans, the piss poor one-sided refereeing, and the result, that I started shouting back at one of the asshole Wings fans, rather than just leaving him alone and not egging him on...as I usually would do. This led to him trying to climb over three rows of Sharks fans to try and fight me. Sadly, he was subdued before he got to me, and then we all left to go home. But it's left a bitter taste in my mouth. Wings fans are the worst.

Of course, my boss is also a Wings fan, because he grew up in Detroit. My boss is also my godfather, and a long time family friend. He's also not an asshole, and very nice about the Wings and the Sharks. So that makes Wings fans look better by association.

Arg, I just really hope we beat them tonight.
Victory!
written by Lurker Shark, February 11, 2010
That was quite possibly the best thing that happened tonight. One of my coworkers making a new special friend at the bar was a close second.

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