SHARKS OR AVS

I'm watching Game 7, Sharks-Flames, with obvious vested interest.

With every twist and turn, penalty and lead change, I alternate uttering to myself, "We're goin' to Denver"..."We're goin' to San Jose". Right now it's midway through the game and we're going to "San Denve".

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Check that. J.R. just tallied. It's Tiburon Town again.

If it is San Jose it'll be the P.R. Department showdown of the decade pitting the Stars Princes of Propaganda against the Sharks Sultans of Statistical Overkill.

Pavelski just tramped a rebound up where the maid never dusts to make it 4-2 Sharkies, and Iron Mike Keenan immediately yanked Kipper, a move that worked brilliantly for one shot and then Setoguchi snapped a stoppable bid past Cujo to make it 5-2.

Sharks P.R. just sent out dueling e-mails naming Joe Pavelski then Devin Setoguchi "Seagate Player of the Period."

(Note to self: During the intermission book wine tour for the off day in Cali)

Didn't coach on the rise Jim Playfair get raked over the coals in Cowtown a year ago (And lose his Head Coaching job) for doing essentially the exact same thing that the "great" Keenan is orchestrating? Pulling Kiprusoff in a key game and losing in the first round.

You're right, it's not over yet. (And Keenan gets to sub a 63 playoff game winner for Kipper, while last year Jimmy had 4 playoff game veteran "Noodles" who lost his noodle as soon as play started in Motown.)

Third period has started. Tanguay just hit the pipe. He used to play in Colorado. (I'm grasping at straws)

Just got another "update" from Sharks Public Relations -- Roenick has won the EA Sports First 40 MVP.

Uh ut tut...Calgary just scored. I still might have to order oxygen for Mile High.

If anybody is going to tie it it'll be Iginla, he hasn't left the ice in the 3rd - and he looks possessed -- And I'm thinking could probably use some of that oxygen.

Three minutes to go and Keenan has pulled another goalie, this time it's for an extra attacker -- Iginla --(They've cloned him!)

Sharks coach Ron Wilson takes his timeout. Iginla rejoices.

In the final minute Keenan takes his timeout and tries to pull Nabokov -- to no avail. Nabokov by the way has captured the Norton Anti-Virus Sharks Player of the Series according to the e-mail I just received.

No doing for them Flames. They're done and we are off to Northern California for Games One and two at the Shark Tank.

As the handshakes commence my Blackberry fires off one more time with crucial updates from the SJ Media Relations group. Apparently they signed 2006 7th round pick, Valeri Snipanipeloff to an entry level contract, (Financial numbers undisclosed) and defenseman Douglas "Crankshaft" Murray has been named Hewlett Packard "Good Guy" by the local Bay Area Media wags.

I'm immediately readying myself for a terrific series and a doozy of a bout of I.F.S. (Information Fatigue Syndrom)