Is It Finally The Sharks Time?

Is this it? It feels like this is it.

San Jose Sharks and Pittsburgh Penguins. Pittsburgh Penguins and San Jose Sharks.

The final two teams, first to four wins drinks from the Stanley Cup.

After a long season of accomplishment and disappointment, charter flights and chalk talks, this could be it. After a long 25 years of accomplishment and disappointment, of establishing a foothold for hockey in this region and an unfortunate reputation, this is really it.

It almost sounds surreal to say, but four more wins and the San Jose Sharks are Stanley Cup champions.

Four more wins and Joe Pavelski accepts the Stanley Cup from Gary Bettman. Four more wins and the Stanley Cup comes to Northern California. Four more wins and God knows what Brent Burns does with that poor trophy, while it’ll be Sharks fans’ turns to tease their rivals to the south.

Four more wins for Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau, who’ve poured their blood, sweat and far more tears than the public even knows into this franchise, to raise the Stanley Cup.

“It’s a pretty cool feeling,” Thornton said in the moments after the Sharks’ Western Conference-clinching Game 6 victory over the St. Louis Blues.

“Obviously, it’s the first time here. It was pretty neat to get this done at home. The fans have waited so long, 25 years. We’ve (Thornton and Marleau) waited 18 years. So it’s a great feeling.”

As Thornton finished this comment, emotional, but not too emotional in the public eye, he snuck a quick glance to his left over at Marleau, a …

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