GDT: Buffalo @ San Jose 7:30PM NBCSCA

[The Nemesis]

Isn't Polak on a PTO with the Leafs?

Thornton for Komarov, van Riemsdyk, and Polak signed to a fresh 3 year/$3.5m per contract.

 

[LadyStanley]

Isn't Polak on a PTO with the Leafs?

Released

 

[rangerssharks414]

Released

There goes that idea. Thank god.

 

[do0glas]

So demelo healthy scratch?

 

[Juxtaposer]

Sharks 3-0; Ryan/Heed/Burns, Kane

Amazing how easy it is to get me excited about the Sharks!

 

[LadyStanley]

So demelo healthy scratch?

Yes.

 

[shorkie88]

SNOG
5-0 SHORKS
HEED, WOOKIE, COOCH, HERTL, LABANC

 

[Sharksrule04]

Excited to see both Ryan and Heed tonight.

 

[Satastic]

Brodie with the Torres jersey

 

[The Nemesis]

lol, CI giving me the late, late night Buffalo feed instead of the Sharks. God I love Canadian Center Ice so much...

 

[LadyStanley]

Nem - I have a choice of home or away feeds this evening.


Hearing on radio pregame that Joakim's parents and sister flew out from New York for his debut. Nice.

 

[Satastic]

Always fun hearing Roenick rip into the sharks isn't it

 

[KirbyDots]

Always fun hearing Roenick rip into the sharks isn't it

He sounded positively glum.

 

[The Nemesis]

Nem - I have a choice of home or away feeds this evening.


Hearing on radio pregame that Joakim's parents and sister flew out from New York for his debut. Nice.

I've talked about this before. It seems that most US providers of Center Ice allow enough channels to the service that they're able to supply every conceivable feed for a game (I do distinctly remember even seeing the option to choose French or English versions of the Habs broadcasts). In Canada though, or at least for Shaw Cable (pretty much the only cable provider for Western Canada, and the one major alternative is Bell's satellite service, which sucks in the totally rando weather of southwest BC), you get one channel per game. And you get whichever feed of the game they choose to give. And there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason for how they choose which feed except that they will always use the feed of a Canadian team if one is featured in the matchup (it's not always the home team, it's not even consistently from certain US networks over others (ie MSG and Fox feeds over CSN when the option exists)) But as I used to track, the Sharks seem to be the team that routinely gets hosed in terms of broadcast balance. Even if I ignore national broadcasts or games that are being broadcast in-market (ie HNIC, Canucks vs Sharks for me, Sportsnet national games of the week) I can't recall a year where the balance was anywhere close to 50/50 in terms of Sharks/opponents feed selection. Usually it's no better than 30/70.

 

[sjsharky]

Holy shit, I don't think Brodie was ready for JR to come in in full doom-and-gloom mode. That was a little awkward.

 

[Led Zappa]

Kinda excited myself tonight.

Go Sharks!!!

 

[sjsharky]

Also, quick OT note, but just noticed that last month was my 10-year mark on the boards. Pretty cool to come into a GDT and be able to talk Sharks hockey with a lot of the same people who were here back then. I appreciate y'all

 

[Pavelski2112]

Last second SNOG

3-1 Sabres
Kane x3
Ryan

 

[slocal]

Also, quick OT note, but just noticed that last month was my 10-year mark on the boards. Pretty cool to come into a GDT and be able to talk Sharks hockey with a lot of the same people who were here back then. I appreciate y'all

Congrats!

Want an anniversary infraction to celebrate?

 

[BaileyMacTavish]

Alright. It's time. Let's go! And hopefully we'll win

 

[Satastic]

I've always liked Lehner's In Flames mask
Brings me back to my High school music tastes

 

[The Nemesis]

I'm not sure what to think about this being a Rick Jeanneret game for me. I've never liked him as much as everyone else seems to, and I wonder if his already diminished capacities will be further weakened by this being a 10:30 ET start time.

 

[norcaltactics]

Lets get this W

 

[Satastic]

Hertl!!

 

[drunksage]

Hertl!!