Sharks stun Hawks in 6

[angryjay93]

Today the San Jose Sharks were able to pull a huge upset over the league dominating Chicago Blackhawks by taking the Western Conference Finals in 6 games. San Jose was able to pull off the upset by being able to score goal after goal on the leagues top defense during the league. Russ Courtnall played incredible for the Hawks, but no one else was able to step up in order to help his heroic performance. Results of the series are provided below.

Game 1: 6-5 Chi OT

Game 2: 6-4 SJ

Game 3: 5-4 Chi OT

Game 4: 6-3 SJ

Game 5: 4-2 SJ

Game 6: 10-4 SJ

"This is just an incredible thing we were able to pull off, to beat a team in a 7 game series that only had 9 losses all year is a nearly impossible task to pull off, but we managed to somehow do it. We just got on a roll from the start and we never stopped, we kept coming and coming and its exactly what we had to do to take this series," said softspoken defenseman Alexei Gusarov.

Chicago though put up one hell of a fight as they never quit throughout the whole series and just kept coming and coming no matter what. The Hawks had an early hold over the series with two huge overtime victories to stifle what would have been Sharks comebacks. But Courtnall couldn't do all the work, Sergei Fedorov, Ed Belfour and Geoff Sanderson all had sub par performances which led to the Hawks fall.

"That was a great team we played out there, they probably deserve to be in the finals more than us, they just wiped everybody out throught the whole season and they just dominated Vancouver in the semis, we got a lot of good bounces and a lot of real fortunate things to fall our way," said Mark Recchi.

Now the Sharks will be moving out of the West as they will await the winner of the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh series in the East. The Shars will be the likely underdog once again as they will face one of the top two dogs from the east.

"We're used to the underdog role by now, we were underdogs throught this whole playoffs, we've had some people back us, but very few people thought we could get to where we are today. No matter what people expect next round, were going to come out hard and do everything we can to win that cup, we obviously have a team that can do it," said the Captain Pierre Turgeon.

Good series Backhander, im still in shock over what happend today, i was totally expecting to get mopped up by you. I hope you dont retire, this community would miss you too much.

[Scribe99]

Today the San Jose Sharks were able to pull a huge upset over the league dominating Chicago Blackhawks by taking the Western Conference Finals in 6 games. San Jose was able to pull off the upset by being able to score goal after goal on the leagues top defense during the league. Russ Courtnall played incredible for the Hawks, but no one else was able to step up in order to help his heroic performance. Results of the series are provided below.

Game 1: 6-5 Chi OT

Game 2: 6-4 SJ

Game 3: 5-4 Chi OT

Game 4: 6-3 SJ

Game 5: 4-2 SJ

Game 6: 10-4 SJ

"This is just an incredible thing we were able to pull off, to beat a team in a 7 game series that only had 9 losses all year is a nearly impossible task to pull off, but we managed to somehow do it. We just got on a roll from the start and we never stopped, we kept coming and coming and its exactly what we had to do to take this series," said softspoken defenseman Alexei Gusarov.

Chicago though put up one hell of a fight as they never quit throughout the whole series and just kept coming and coming no matter what. The Hawks had an early hold over the series with two huge overtime victories to stifle what would have been Sharks comebacks. But Courtnall couldn't do all the work, Sergei Fedorov, Ed Belfour and Geoff Sanderson all had sub par performances which led to the Hawks fall.

"That was a great team we played out there, they probably deserve to be in the finals more than us, they just wiped everybody out throught the whole season and they just dominated Vancouver in the semis, we got a lot of good bounces and a lot of real fortunate things to fall our way," said Mark Recchi.

Now the Sharks will be moving out of the West as they will await the winner of the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh series in the East. The Shars will be the likely underdog once again as they will face one of the top two dogs from the east.

"We're used to the underdog role by now, we were underdogs throught this whole playoffs, we've had some people back us, but very few people thought we could get to where we are today. No matter what people expect next round, were going to come out hard and do everything we can to win that cup, we obviously have a team that can do it," said the Captain Pierre Turgeon.

Good series Backhander, im still in shock over what happend today, i was totally expecting to get mopped up by you. I hope you dont retire, this community would miss you too much.

I have to say that the teams in this series were probably the two toughest I faced this season. Great Win AngryJay. I'd be interested in hearing BHF's recap of this series too.