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BoC Gameday—What Scares Me About Your Team
BoC Gameday—What Scares Me About Your Team
Anaheim Ducks (t-1st in west) at San Jose Sharks (t-1st in west) Winner of tonight’s game is on top of the west! Ah, the beauty of a new NHL season afoot, and what better way to kick it off than with a good ol’ Battle of California (competitive version) ? Yeah, I know there were some ...
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It has begun
Cycle like the Sedins — ... As Sleek notes, the first Battle of California is today between the Pacific division's Mercedes franchises when Anaheim visits San Jose. The runner up is Calgary at Vancouver, which should be a great Canadian/NW division blood feud. ...

Puck Headlines: The Red Wings' opening night hysteria
Puck Daddy — ... (10:30 p.m. EDT; TV: FSPT). The battle for the Pacific begins! Of course there's only one place to turn for a preview: Battle of California, as Sleek and Mike Chen reveal their inner-most fears about each others' teams. Chen may be the first man to admit to being afraid of ...

Ducks Gameday—2008: A Year in Doctored Pictures
Battle of California — ... July 2008: Sleek forgets to include heroism in Bettman art August 2008: More Bad Puns: the Pensblog submissions August 2008: Bad Puns III: The Sanford Mask Contest September 2008: Explaining the finer points of hockey to a new generation of fans October 2008: BoC Gameday—What Scares Me About Your Team ...

BoC Gameday—What scares me about your team... revisited
Battle of California — ... It’s fitting, perhaps, that the way that Anaheim and San Jose are starting their postseason is the way they started the regular season – Ducks at Sharks, opening night with a clean slate. Accordingly, Mike Chen and I decided to do a reprise of our season-opening post – what scares me about your team. Both teams have come a long way since opening night, and to help note that progress, I’ll include a glimpse of what our original answers were back on Oct. 9: ...

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