Pending Disaster: No Ryane Clowe for Game 6

Damnit Sharks.

Why couldn't you just close out your series with Detroit in four (or I guess five)?  Why couldn't you just play the way you're capable of and send the dreaded Red Wings golfing for the season?   Why couldn't you just end the suffering of Wings-haters everywhere and seal this series up with a pretty teal and black bow?

I have only two possible conclusions: 

1. You're choking.  Again.  And this time, no one will bail you out with "but they played a great series" because flatly, if you blow a 3-0 series lead, you suck at everything,  EVERYTHING.
2. You're just trying to make it interesting.

Please, for the sake of us all, let it be Option 2.

I'm interested, okay?  A little too interested, if you know what I mean.  You allowed Detroit to steal two games in a row, one right out from under you and your two goal lead, and now they have an honest shot at this.  They really could pull off a 2010 Philadelphia Flyers...something people were really only joking about two games ago.

I will never forgive you if Detroit pulls off a 2010 Philadelphia Flyers.

Ever.

Unless you want to dethrone the Bruins as "Choke-Artist of the Decade (and put my happiness in serious jeopardy), I suggest you win tonight, San Jose. And win big. In Detroit. Take it to those talented bastards in red and don't look back. Datsyuk who? Lidstrom what?

But of course, since you couldn't just end it all early, now you'll have to do it with injuries... which is what happens when series trudge on. No Ryane Clowe tonight, folks.

Not good.

As in "Oh, we are effed" not good.

As in "A significant piece of the puzzle of our success is out" not good.

What we have here is drama unfolding, a storyline for disaster.  It would be fun if it didn't mean Detroit was slowly inching their way toward another Stanley Cup.  But that's exactly what's happening here.  Make no mistake about the Red Wings:  You can NEVER (and I repeat NEVER) count them out until the nail is in the coffin.

You brought this upon yourselves, Sharks. When the hockey gods give you a chance to seal a series against Detroit, at home, you do it.  Everyone knows you don't fuck with Detroit.

And now you have to fuck with Detroit in Detroit.

May God have mercy on us all if you can't get it right.

-Shaela