On our way to San Jose

The Hawks closed out the conference semi's in convincing fashion on Tuesday night and now face the #1 seeded San Jose Sharks, who barely edged the Hawks for home-ice advantage at the end of the season. If I were the Sharks I'd be a little worried considering the Hawks have dominated on the road this year tallying 23 wins in 41 regular season games (56%) and have won 5 of 6 away from home already this postseason. The HP Pavilion "Shark Tank" has been lauded as the hardest place to play in the NHL, but sorry if I just don't see it. All the Asian tech nerds and washed out NorCal hippies in the world won't have the Hawks shakin' in their skates, considering they play at the UC where you have to shank 6 crackheads just to get back to your car.

I'm a lot less concerned about an intimidating crown at the Shark Tank than I am about how the Hawks are going to entertain themselves in the one horse town they call San Jose. Honestly I've been to San Jose and I shit you not when I say that they close the city down before dusk. I'm pretty sure they have an Applebee's so I can only assume the boys will at least be eatin' good in the hood. Let's just hope that when the Bay Area faithful have all gone home to listen to Janis Joplin on vinyl or whack it to internet heresay about the new iphone our boys aren't trying to break the tension by rolling around in a limo with a bunch of pie wagons like they did back in January. Wouldn't want a repeat of this now would we Kaner?

Winners get the chicks,
Jocks Rule