Sharks Go Down Fighting
(05-05) 04:00 PDT Dallas — For the third year running, the San Jose Sharks could proudly claim that they were the fifth longest-lasting team in the National Hockey League. Not that they would, mind you. This last-quarterfinalist-standing thing is starting to get on people’s nerves.
This time, though, the sting might take awhile to be felt. They did, after all, extend the Dallas Stars to the equivalent of seven games before going down.
Sunday night’s 2-1 quadruple overtime loss to Dallas here, in the longest game in Sharks history, insured that the Sharks’ season ended as the last two have, with the organization and its 17,496 devoted worshipers wondering if their boys had been beaten by yet another better team, or if they’d just given away too much too early for their late-series valor to be rewarded.
Either way, even though those nagging character arguments have probably been quelled for awhile by their performance Sunday night and Monday morning, the sting of having been eliminated will last deep into the month, with plenty of as yet unspecified ramifications still to come.
Presumably after a respectful period to allow everyone to re-hydrate.
The winning goal came at 9:03 of the fourth overtime, with San Jose defenseman Brian Campbell in the penalty box for tripping Loui Eriksson. Brenden Morrow camped about 12 feet to the right of San Jose goalie Evgeni Nabokov and deflected a Stephane Robidas pass past Nabokov on Dallas’ 55th shot of the night. Robidas had taken a cross-ice pass from Mike Ribeiro and directed the puck smartly toward Morrow, who needed no time to finish the job that had begun five and half hours earlier.
The game was a classic in Sharks’ history, serving as proof that the Sharks are made of sterner stuff than at first believed after going down 3-0 in this series, but that reputation comes at a bitter cost, given the Sharks’ recent run of playoff exits. That part of the story will be dealt with in due time.
Tags: evgeni, nabokov
May 5th, 2008 at 2:22 am
Yeah, taking profit along the way is key. It seems that retail investors may move into gold more for the next few months, but that means the institutions will be selling it. But i’m sure you know better than i do.For the real estate, best keep it commercial if you can. Commercial real estate doesnt look like it will get hit as hard. I’m not working in the wall st stuff now, but my dad is working for a firm that has a few funds specializing in the Commercial Mortgage realm. He is saying that the worst is over and that commercial real estate wont get hit nearly as badly as residential…. but that’s just his take.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:12 am
Doesn’t this just prove how disingenuous they were when starting this crap in the first place? If they are willing to compromise, I guess it wasn’t as important as they said after all.But of course, America will just ignore that fact. After all Deal or No Deal is coming on soon.
May 5th, 2008 at 4:03 am
Obviously he isn’t one of the privileged members of the upperclass and spends his days quietly pining away for the equality that shall prevail when the capitalistic heel of oppression is removed from his throat and his woeful repression is replaced with Utopian equity where his sense of self is vindicated amongst others of the same ilk.
May 5th, 2008 at 4:53 am
Why would anyone invest in shrubbery anyways?
May 5th, 2008 at 5:44 am
why hopefully?
May 5th, 2008 at 6:34 am
hopefully.
May 5th, 2008 at 7:25 am
To get past the knight.
May 5th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Very cool. It seems as if we’re reaching the turning point. We’ll have some downtime, but it seems the worst might be over. (Unless of course the fed actions don’t end up working, and then everybody, not just people involved with Wall St, are screwed).What does your fund specialize in in terms of investments?
May 5th, 2008 at 9:06 am
These people just lose.
May 5th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Currencies, precious commodities and their derivatives and trying to expand into real estate development. Made ridiculous gains leveraged long on silver and gold, then took a hurting this week when they dropped. Our saving grace was being disciplined with taking profit, so for the year we’re still up significantly, just not as much as we could have been.But I would rather say any day I could have had x in profit than having a very real x in losses.
May 5th, 2008 at 10:47 am
OMG, its like you totally know me.