Dude: “It’s in the Torah”

My dad lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan - which is actually north of Wisconsin. It’s as white-bread as you get. In fact, the closest thing they have to minorities is Polish people - who they have a lot of jokes mocking. He never leaves his 30-mile safe space where he’d have to actually see minorities or “out”…

Like hating gays before you kid becomes one.

I’m a 42 year old woman and I’d have the exact same reaction, little guy.

Pens traded up to get the first pick (from third) to get Fleury in 2004. Don’t let that ruin your narrative though.

He was behind Malkin by 1 point, so it’s not like he was 10th on the team in scoring, but besides that, think about how much attention he draws when he’s on the ice that opens up opportunities for other players. Think about how teams adjust their lineups for him which perhaps weakens other lines - even when he’s not…

What’s more terrifying for the rest of the NHL and the Penguins’ legion of haters (only a handful of fanbases in the West who fell to Nashville were pulling for them, like the Ducks) is that the only notable unrestricted free agents they have this summer are Nick Bonino, Trevor Daley, and an aging Chris Kunitz.…

No. I do not co-sign.

Best finals game since 09? Why, because he scored ? I recall last year crosby absolutely dominated the sharks. Everytime he was on the ice he had the puck for 60 seconds. Imo that was crosby best last finals. He is still the best player on either team right now, but he looks a bit tired

Let me translate this to sane rational person who has watched hockey: Sid had 2 breakaways this game, and scored on one, so people who don’t know what they are looking at when they watch hockey finally noticed him.

The real story here is that someone was wearing Snapchat Spectacles. I have never seen them out in the wild.

it would be really nice if deadspin would publish a hockey-related article that consists of more than whining about the penguins. we get it—you all hate the penguins and the big bad powers that be at league HQ have decided that rigging things for pittsburgh, ranked 20/30 in population for nhl cities (and a city that…

You still gotta pick the right players. You guys coulda had Malkin.

I’m sorry but this doesn’t sound accurate at all. This sounds exactly like a guy who would rather place blame on some phantom conspiracy rather than addressing the systemic problems of lack of leadership and a culture of underachieving.

We’re ignoring Subban’s embellishment on the cross-check, we’re ignoring the “every time someone checks us we give them a two-hander across the ankles” plays, we’re ignoring the phantom call that led to a 5 on 3, we’re ignoring the hit on Cullen that wasn’t penalized, etc., right?

It was dastardly of the NHL to cancel an entire season to make sure the Penguins could get that top pick.

A team that is perennially chasing another team, has an inferiority complex with “something to prove” and sees that other team as their chief rival tends to play differently against that rival than they do against non-rivals.

You mean like game 2: where a phantom penalty on Malkin gave the preds a 5on3 for 2 full minutes, or like where, just as in game 1, they took away a goal for offsides that was clear on replay (except this time it was the Pens goal being taken away) hmmm. now I’m not a mathmatician, but that seems ... there’s a word…

lolwut. I’m a Pens fan so I can’t objectively say that this isn’t true over the entire course of the Crosby era, but if your take away after Game 2 of the final is that anything is being tilted in Pittsburgh’s favor I don’t know what to tell you.