San Jose Sharks Get No Jumbo Joe

April 21st, 2010 by MJ Kasprzak Leave a reply »
During my last article, with regard to the San Jose Sharks post-season, I referenced the famous Glengarry Glen Ross line, "Coffee's for closers only."

As we all know, another name for coffee is "Joe," and it often comes in jumbo sizes in a country that is always looking for artificial stimulation. As we all know, Jumbo Joe is the nickname for the Western Conference's best regular season centre, playing for the Western Conference's best regular season team.

Unfortunately for Sharks fans, we also know that neither Joe nor the Sharks carry that regular season success into the playoffs.

In 383 regular season games with San Jose, Joe is plus-106 with 116 goals and 361 assists and the Sharks have the second-best record in the league. In 45 post-season games with the team, he is minus-five with six goals and 31 assists, and the Sharks are only 22-23 and have never won more than two second round games.

In other words, as Joe goes, so goes the San Jose. In this series, he has two assists and is a minus-three, and only two teams in the league are scoring fewer goals per game than his Sharks this year.

This is not to say there are no ...

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