Year after year, the San Jose Sharks are christened as a favorite to compete for the Stanley Cup. But year after year they disappoint and wind up knocked out of the playoffs in some embarrassing manner. The team has only made the Conference finals three times in its history but has been eliminated in rather woeful manners each time. In 2003-04, the team was bounced by a lower seeded Calgary Flames side in six games. In 2009-10, the team was swept out of the Conference finals by the Chicago Blackhawks and a year later the Vancouver Canucks took them down in five games. But the playoff embarrassment does not end there. Perhaps the team's biggest fail (before this season) took place in 2008-09 when it won the President's trophy but was eliminated in the first round by the Anaheim Ducks; Anaheim won the first two games in San Jose and took three wins in the first four games of the series.
