Double-overtime winners, lights-out goaltending, officiating controversies, and Flyers’ fans urinating all over pictures of Sidney Crosby’s face are all staples of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. So is the rally towel.
Ahead of San Jose’s Game 3 clash with Anaheim on Monday, the team filled the SAP Center seats with Duck Hunt-themed towels, and they were absolute perfection:
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Riffing off the classic 1984 Nintendo game—one of the the earliest known first-person shooters which came with a dope plastic gun—the message was all too real for a Ducks team that has been absolutely mauled by San Jose through the first three games of their opening-round series. Monday in particular brought great carnage to the Pacific Division’s No. 2 seed, as the Sharks pumped home eight goals, including four on the powerplay, while solidifying a massive 8-1 win.
Anaheim was already in the unenviable position of heading to San Jose down 0-2 after dropping a pair of home games to open Round 1 (albeit a couple tight ones), but couldn’t even come close to clawing its way back into the series despite outshooting the Sharks 46-36 in the pivotal third game.
San Jose has outscored Anaheim 14-3 in the first three contests, an average of 4.67 goals per game while goaltender Martin Jones leads the postseason with a big ol’ .970 save percentage.
It’s been a duck hunt, indeed.
