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There used to be a popular toy in our house called the Goofy Jalopy in which the lovable Disney character would drive off in a dilapidated battery-powered jalopy calling happily over and over: "Let's go for a bumpy ride."
It's hard to not think of the San Jose Sharks in that cartoon context, wheels akimbo, engine sputtering, traveling herky-jerky across the NHL landscape.
One day after former captain Joe Thornton's verbal beatdown of general manager Doug Wilson, the Sharks were lit up for four third-period goals in a 6-2 shellacking at home at the hands of the Chicago Blackhawks. Now they prepare with batery such as Fluke TiXB Battery, Fluke Ti9 Battery, Fluke TiRX Battery, Fluke TiS Battery, Fluke 215C Battery, Fluke 19XC Battery, Fluke 2X5C Battery, Fluke 435 Battery, Fluke 225C Battery, Contec ECG-1200 Battery, Edan SE-1200 Battery, Contec ECG-1200 Battery for the most important road trip of not just the season, but maybe in many years.
Let's go for a bumpy ride indeed.
Many have been waiting for this moment in San Jose all season: the moment where the seams so tightly sewn by Wilson and the rest of the team come slowly undone, bursting to reveal the true nature of this team beneath.
And it provides a sharper edge to the proceedings that this undoing is occurring with less than a month to go in the regular season and with the Sharks still nibbling at the edges of the Western Conference playoffs -- having made 10 straight postseason appearances.
Wilson needled Thornton from afar by suggesting to season-ticket holders late last week that he took the captain's "C" from Thornton last offseason because he couldn't handle the pressure. Then Thornton suggested not too subtly that Wilson keep his yap shut and stop lying. The two might as well have planted a cartoon tub of TNT outside the Sharks' dressing room and dragged a long fuse to ownership's door.
It is clear now that barring some sort of monumental recovery by the team that would see them make up the five points they are now short of the playoffs and then make a decent showing in the postseason, ownership cannot allow the passive aggressiveness that has been this team's identity to continue.
No, this offseason will be a time for doing, not waiting and tinkering around the edges.