There is luck involved (poor officiating, injuries, etc) but I believe you make much of your own luck. If your team is put together right sometimes things just click.
Maybe sometimes, but with hockey I've seen too many teams that are put together right, like you said, only to run into a crazy hot goalie, or lose a game on an odd man rush after hitting a post... all sorts of freak stuff nobody sees coming. All about being at the right place at the right time. I mean when was the last time Brent Burns - one of the league's premier defensemen - just dropped his stick? Happened to be in the corner at the end of the game, hagelin slides the puck to Bonino and the pens take game 1. If Brenter had his stick that goal never happens. Totally a fluke
The hot goalie has cost a lot of very good teams championships and have won their teams championships ... One of the greatest runs by a goalie Patrick Roy '93 ... That run may never be matched ... How many playoff games did Hasek, Brodeur, Dryden, Parent, Richter etc..win their teams.
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Oh wow James And Kirk are playing the national anthem......GO SHARKS!
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Fuck that whiny bitch captain that can't grow a beard. HATE. THE. PENGUINS.
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A goalies nightmare avoided 2 on 0 breakaway.
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Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Fucking right! If there is someone in PGH with a hookup on tickets for Game 5, please let me know!
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Like that the Sharks are up against it. Want to see them get stepped on -- no making it back for a game 7. Kick them in their collective balls, end it!
The Penguins really needed this. They are aging and Rutherford has stripped the cupboard bare (and Shero before him). The window is/was closing. This could be it, so enjoy it
Oh wow James And Kirk are playing the national anthem......GO SHARKS!
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Looks like San Jose's chances are starting to Fade To Black...
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If you’re looking to get into one of these games I have some advice for you. Work it, work it and work it. The Warriors ticket was easy. They had Ticketmaster drops all week. So I took advantage of that.
The Sharks tickets were harder to come by. Never had a drop, but found plenty on the resale market (so I knew there was inventory). I showed up 4 hours early to the venue and went directly to the box office, nothing on sale. They said maybe at 4PM. I asked where to wait and was first in line. While waiting watched about 20 different people ask the box office the same question as me. Most walked away, only one other couple stuck around. At 2PM a suit walked into the box office with a list. I am called over and I score! So did the couple that waited maybe a minute. All those other people that left…
If I had felt my chances at the box office were nil, I would have either worked the biggest parking lot or better yet a transit stop. People always show up with an extra or two. Very seldom am I denied and pay face value or close to it.
Fuck that whiny bitch captain that can't grow a beard. HATE. THE. PENGUINS.
Wah and wahh! Pot and the kettle with the whiny thing.Pretty sure crosby has grown a more full and luxuriant beard than ovechkin or giroux . But even if he hasn't, beards obviously don't matter.
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Glad you got to see your team in the Cup Finals. I went in 2012 and would have gone again in 2014 but my wife was past due date for our boy and I could not risk being @ MSG watching Kings Cup Chase when she went into labor. Having been to Super Bowl, World Series, BCS Championship Game, and SCFinals, I thought the SCFinals was the most fun. (Not a basketball fan.)
Fuck that whiny bitch captain that can't grow a beard. HATE. THE. PENGUINS.
Wah and wahh! Pot and the kettle with the whiny thing.Pretty sure crosby has grown a more full and luxuriant beard than ovechkin or giroux . But even if he hasn't, beards obviously don't matter.
If you’re looking to get into one of these games I have some advice for you. Work it, work it and work it. The Warriors ticket was easy. They had Ticketmaster drops all week. So I took advantage of that.
The Sharks tickets were harder to come by. Never had a drop, but found plenty on the resale market (so I knew there was inventory). I showed up 4 hours early to the venue and went directly to the box office, nothing on sale. They said maybe at 4PM. I asked where to wait and was first in line. While waiting watched about 20 different people ask the box office the same question as me. Most walked away, only one other couple stuck around. At 2PM a suit walked into the box office with a list. I am called over and I score! So did the couple that waited maybe a minute. All those other people that left…
If I had felt my chances at the box office were nil, I would have either worked the biggest parking lot or better yet a transit stop. People always show up with an extra or two. Very seldom am I denied and pay face value or close to it.
WOW! What a great couple of days.
Good Luck to the seekers!
wait, does that say the face value of those tickets was $650 and $705 to sit in the upper level???
It had been awhile since attending a hockey game, forgot how cold it gets inside the venue. My first live game was standing room at the Chicago Stadium, Madison Avenue.
Just happen to have a little memento
I went to a playoff game also, but never the finals.
Saw the Sharks early on at temporary home SF Cow Palace. Finally hockey in Northern California!
To me hockey (like car racing) just isn’t the same on TV. You just don’t get the true excitement until you experience it live. The fast pace and the sounds just don’t translate to TV, you miss so much. The excitement of the rush or a slap shot has to be experienced. The sound of the puck hitting the glass, goal post or a stick after a pass adds a lot. A hard hit against the boards and just the skates on ice, it’s so much better live.
Bay Area sports are hot the last bunch of years with the Giants winning three World Series, the Warriors in it again and now the Sharks. And the Super Bowl was played in Santa Clara this past February. Very happy to call it home.
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
spot on, ed who, about hockey and motorsports being so much better in person.
If I had known then what I know now...
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Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
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The Sharks tickets were harder to come by. Never had a drop, but found plenty on the resale market (so I knew there was inventory). I showed up 4 hours early to the venue and went directly to the box office, nothing on sale. They said maybe at 4PM. I asked where to wait and was first in line. While waiting watched about 20 different people ask the box office the same question as me. Most walked away, only one other couple stuck around. At 2PM a suit walked into the box office with a list. I am called over and I score! So did the couple that waited maybe a minute. All those other people that left…
If I had felt my chances at the box office were nil, I would have either worked the biggest parking lot or better yet a transit stop. People always show up with an extra or two. Very seldom am I denied and pay face value or close to it.
WOW! What a great couple of days.
Good Luck to the seekers!
Three Fish
July 1996 San Francisco
June 1999 Chicago
Fuck that whiny bitch captain that can't grow a beard. HATE. THE. PENGUINS.
Wah and wahh! Pot and the kettle with the whiny thing.Pretty sure crosby has grown a more full and luxuriant beard than ovechkin or giroux . But even if he hasn't, beards obviously don't matter.
Having been to Super Bowl, World Series, BCS Championship Game, and SCFinals, I thought the SCFinals was the most fun. (Not a basketball fan.)
Three Fish
July 1996 San Francisco
June 1999 Chicago
Just happen to have a little memento
I went to a playoff game also, but never the finals.
Saw the Sharks early on at temporary home SF Cow Palace. Finally hockey in Northern California!
To me hockey (like car racing) just isn’t the same on TV. You just don’t get the true excitement until you experience it live. The fast pace and the sounds just don’t translate to TV, you miss so much. The excitement of the rush or a slap shot has to be experienced. The sound of the puck hitting the glass, goal post or a stick after a pass adds a lot. A hard hit against the boards and just the skates on ice, it’s so much better live.
Bay Area sports are hot the last bunch of years with the Giants winning three World Series, the Warriors in it again and now the Sharks. And the Super Bowl was played in Santa Clara this past February. Very happy to call it home.
Three Fish
July 1996 San Francisco
June 1999 Chicago
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14