Refs will only call the game misconduct if it’s obvious that the strap wasn’t fastened to begin with. They don’t want to throw a guy out just because his opponent gives the jersey a pull hard enough to undo the snap. In this case, it looks like Schenn’s strap doesn’t finally give way until the very end. Once his arm…

Neutral: I guess if techbro schadenfreude is your thing, watching Travis Kalanick get pantsed might hold your interest. Otherwise, it’s just going to devolve into tedious intellectual property nitpicking and end in a patent cross-licensing deal.

Post-malaise FWD Chrysler transmissions? I had a 1986 Aries and a 1995 Stratus. I got sermons on those gearboxes, all fire and brimstone.

To me, it feels like a Western team is going to win the Cup this year for sure. Either Vegas rides this Expansion Team of Destiny wave all the way*, or whoever runs the Central gauntlet does what the Penguins did last year through the Metro gauntlet. Tampa will probably be the toughest Eastern competition, but that…

I imagine Auburn Hills might have gotten a thank you note or two from the dealers when Chrysler replaced the Dynasty with this:

Kid’s off to a good start. He has an excellent chance to pass the Haverford kindergarten entrance exam, which is to chant “Crosby sucks!” at least three times at the sight of a Penguins jersey.

If you were involved in Deadspin Yinzer Mafia Twitter around the time he joined the Trib, you probably wouldn’t be surprised one bit by this story. His erratic, “180-degree” behavior was on full display. I think he still has me blocked, but he’s (un-)followed and (un-)blocked more than a few of us enough times to lose…

Why else would they pick Neptune and Uranus? Oh, wait, they’re [exaggerated air quotes] cousins.

Start a “The only real Porsches are [blank]” argument, and a “Pink Floyd ended when [blank] left the band” argument, and see which escalates faster.

The Rock’s flip was next-level, but Shane definitely leads the McMahon family.

Last model probably got a demerit from JD Power’s IQS for “valuable-item-crushing center console lid”. So now it will get a demerit from JD Power for “center console fill line label wears off” instead.

Self-parody. That’s the first thought that popped into my head when I saw that exterior.

At least make them proper 5-door fastbacks. Honda’s rear decks have gotten so short, they’re practically Austin Mini boot lids. Hell, Buick figured that out before Honda did.

“Brooks Orpik partial breakaway” should have been your first sign that we were in the mirror universe.

My guess? Because he was only a day or so removed from a Chewbacca bowcaster shot to the gut that would have killed a lesser man, and was wearing a protective layer over the wound. The Sulking Sith Lord Dress Code Black blended in with the actual pants.

But 20-20 casting hindsight is fun! Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man series gave us the wonderful irony of natural blonde Kirsten Dunst playing redhead Mary Jane Watson, followed by ginger Bryce Dallas Howard playing blonde Gwen Stacy.

My Mazda3 abandoned the pretense. It doesn’t even have a gauge, just a light: blue means cold, red means overheating, otherwise it’s off.

I’d love to see what Matthew Vaughn could do with a Jedi fight scene. On the other hand, I’d hate to see what Matthew Vaughn would do with any other Star Wars scene.

The Barclays Center architects basically shrink-wrapped the seating areas around a basketball court. They figured they could occasionally support an ice rink by folding back some sections in the corners of the lower bowl and curtaining off the ends of the upper bowl. It was always on the assumption that they’d only…

Vegas has a standing-room sellout every night (102.6% of capacity), but OK.