PowerPlayGoal.com – Hockey From A Different Angle

The Stanley Cup playoffs are just around the corner! And for San Jose Sharks fans,  it will probably mean yet another inevitable letdown early on in the postseason. Gee, it’s no wonder some fans are probably bitter and cynical around this time of year!

But yeah, even though the playoffs haven’t started yet, I can see it happening, because for whatever reason there seems to be some sort of bad karma that affects only this team once the postseason has begun. Why does it happen? Does the team just get lazy? Do they lose their confidence? Whatever the reason, it always ends up finishing like a Blue Screen of Death for the Sharks.

Even as fans of two of their Division rivals, this team’s epic failures disappoint us too. We want them to succeed, we want to see them actually do well for a change (partially because we’ll be seeing them in Sweden later this year). Come on Sharks, break this stupid curse that’s been following you around for the past couple of years! Prove our prediction wrong!

As far as this comic goes: normally I tend to do a lot of dialogue-heavy ones, but I’ve been wanting to do a visual gag like this for ages. I’m pleased with how it turned out. And for anyone who wants to see the BSOD I made in the background, click here to see it.

The whole world seems to stop when it comes to The Superbowl. As usual, the NHL scheduled very few games (2) – interestingly, one was a game which started at 3pm. Given that games average about 2-3 hours, that makes timing very tight, with the SuperBowl set to kick off at 6pm.

And at long last, here is our first comic since July last year.

For those of you who don’t quite get the gag here, the Winter Olympics in Vancouver will be taking place next month, and the Canucks’ rink is being used for hockey games. Because of this, the team has been scheduled to go on a 14 game road trip – the longest in NHL history – over six weeks while the arena is prepared for the Olympics, and then again for the team’s return home. I felt this was analogous to someone being temporarily kicked out of their own house, and couldn’t think of anyone better to represent the Canucks than the very character they were named after, Johnny Canuck.

And speaking of Johnny Canuck, I’ve drawn him very differently to my usual Chibi influenced characters, making him look more like the various logos the Canucks use that feature him.