Ron Wilson, captain Patrick Marleau and star Joe Thornton were unanimous in their public belief the Sharks were good enough to win a championship this season, if they had received just a few of the lucky bounces that didn't go their way in a six-game loss to the Dallas Stars.
Oh those lucky bounces. Those wacky, random, lovable puck bounces that determine the fate of every NHL game. How I hate those bounces.
We'd all agree some of the bounces didn't go San Jose's way in the playoffs. But follow me on this chain of logic:
1. The Sharks didn't get the lucky bounces they needed.
2. Hard work and consistency create so-called "lucky bounces".
3. San Jose couldn't work as hard or stay consistent throughout the playoffs because they faced an incredibly difficult series of opponents - a vicious and resilient Calgary team and a brutally grinding Dallas squad. Not exactly the cupcakes Detroit faced in Nashville and Colorado. Detroit didn't need any bounces to go 8-2 against them.
4. San Jose would've faced those cupcakes if they'd secured the #1 seed.
5. San Jose could've secured the #1 seed if they'd been more consistent throughout the entire season. The up-and-down, barely .500 team throughout the first few months of the season ended up sabotaging their efforts in the end.
Hindsight is 20-20, so it's easy for me to say this now.
But I despise hearing the top 3 leaders of the team complain about how the team was screwed by "lucky bounces". This season wasn't decided by a few lucky bounces in a few games. It was decided by a lack of consistency throughout all 95 games.
2 comments:
exactly.
"2. Hard work and consistency create so-called "lucky bounces"
man u gotta create ur own lucky situations in life and especially the NHL.
nice on the long term perspective on the consistency throughout the season...
that article had an interesting (to me) quote from Ron Wilson:
"That's all irrelevant. You look at my record, it's second to none, literally, in the sport, so I'm not even worried about that," said Wilson, when speaking on his job security.
i dunno, but i might be a lil less comfortable than he is outwarding stating...at least when it is known that the team did not meet expectations and put in a JOB early again.
not sayin they were whack, just seems like expectations were higher...and expectations and assumptions are tough to deal with. esp. with business.
next year has endless potential right now so fuck it. go sharks postseason!
also. go kings.
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