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Cup is cup.
Same. I don't know whether I could get past the lack of a Stanley Cup if my favourite team accomplished everything else. Plus, nothing beats winning the Cup.
Cup is cup.
More successful, you'd have to go with the Cup. As a fan? It's tight, but I'd prefer San Jose's success to the **** we've had to endure.
As a fan of a franchise who had 40 years of irrelevance before Cup #1 and is looking to enter the dark ages yet again...
Give me the Cup every time. Only people voting Sharks here are Sharks fans and fans of teams who don't have a Cup.
Nothing compares. Not 10 years straight of "relative success" because you either win or you don't. It's binary. Second place feels just as bad--if not worse--than missing.
Now what the Sharks have done as far as staying competitive for so long is super impressive and deserves absolute props, it's very difficult to be that good for that long. But when this current crop falls off and they start missing the playoffs consistently, I bet the answer changes to "oh please give me a Cup" rather than "well, we lose in the playoffs every year, so take that, Carolina!"
The goal is a Cup.
As a Canuck fan I’d trade all of the good seasons for a Cup without hesitation.
So Carolina.
Perhaps, but it didn't happen and it doesn't make me feel any differently about our Cup. And in another decade or two, basically no one will remember stuff like this at all.If Roloson goes down vs San Jose instead of Carolina, this is likely not even a question. He was the only reason they came back and won that series.