Going into the series against Anaheim, just south of San Francisco in the Silicon Valley, there were dreams of hoisting Lord Stanley, but in Southern California, the land of Minnie and Mickey, there was an upstart Ducks team. One key in the NHL playoffs that the Sharks were missing all series long was good goaltending. Evgeni “Siv”-kov (Nabokov), instead of rising to the occasion, sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Was this a team that was overconfident going into the Stanley Cup playoffs? The Sheriff says “Yes, they were.” Just because you win the President’s Trophy at the end of the season doesn’t mean a darn thing. What matters is the prize at the end of the playoffs. For these underachieving Sharks, they now go to the bottom of the ocean to look at themselves all summer long and think about what might have been a glorious season that’s now in shambles. The city of San Jose should get rid of Jonathan Cheechoo, Claude Lemieux, and Jeremy Roenick. Perhaps these Sharks should go into retirement. The San Jose Sharks need to get younger, and find the real meaning of what it’s like to be a team. Too many big egos. For the land of Disney, they can say “we are going to Detroit!”
