There was a mighty curse on the Blackhawks this year. No, not the one that they got from being from the same city as the Cubs, and not the much-hyped “Hossa Curse” (Marian Hossa has been to the Cup Finals three times in three years on three different teams… and only now has a Cup [...]

So, the Sharks are out. I’ll probably have more to say later, once this really sinks in and I can fully digest it, but here is my first post-series reaction that I posted over at Fear the Fin: This season was a great season by all accounts. We finished first in the Western Conference in [...]

Some will think that this hatred has come about from this Western Conference Finals series. Some will think that this post has stemmed from the recent Game 3 loss. They’d be partially right – my hatred for this “storied” franchise has been exacerbated by the series, and the post itself is because of the Game [...]

If you haven’t noticed (although, it’s kind of hard to miss), I’ve been sort of MIA the past month. Now, there are plenty of reasons for that – the up and down, ulcer-inducing roller coaster that is the playoffs, the papers I’ve had to write for my classes, studying for finals, all that jazz. But [...]

I felt that this was monumental enough to break my hiatus. First time since 2004 that the Sharks made the Western Conference Finals. Second time in franchise history. Best of all? It was over Detroit. In FIVE games. Big post dropping tomorrow morning. Let’s do this.

It’s over. After 82 games and 6 and a half months, it’s over. There are no more games to fine-tune things, no more worrying about jockeying for positions in the standings. For fourteen teams, meaninful hockey is over until October. But for sixteen teams, it is the most exciting, nerve-wracking, ulcer-inducing, amazing time of the [...]