Personally, I doubt the NHL will really need referees in the next round for much besides dropping the puck and whistling plays for being off-side, since the referees will not be calling anything a penalty unless a player practically drops dead like Pavelski did (only, next round, those plays will be a minor at worst).

I’m in favour of referees actually calling penalties in the playoffs (something they try very hard not to do), and I can’t say I think this call was all that bad. People blame the referees for making it a major because the play resulted in an injury (which seems fine to me: Eakin cross-checked and it got upgraded to a…

I’ve hated Olimar since Brawl, but I’m certainly not going to complain about pros being really good at playing as him.

Major penalties do not end when goals are scored. Minor penalties do end when goals are scored. Originally, neither majors or minors ended after a goal is scored, but the Montreal Canadiens in the 1950s were too good on the power play and kept scoring multiple goals after the other team made minor infractions, so the…

I’ve regularly seen teams score one or two power play goals during five-minute majors, but definitely not four.

Thank you, Tim, for making this awesome series! I’m looking forward to watching the end of it.

I can understand how technical limitations could have interfered with recording the voices, but I’ll never be able to fully enjoy the English voice acting. Still, I’m not that annoyed that Square’s first attempt at a voice-acted Final Fantasy failed to impress me. What I can’t forgive Square for is not including the…

I think it’s development is longer than or equivalent to the time Square spent making Final Fantasy I through V, so it’s by no means “the shortest development cycle for a Final Fantasy game.” It may not be fair, but I’ll criticize Square for cutting corners when it contrasts with their previous reputation. Besides,…

Wow, I disagreed with both the title of this article (I can’t say FFX-2 is all that fun) and its opening sentence (I think of FFX-2 as a terrible ending for the much better FFX).

Anyway, I’m a veteran hater of FFX-2. I like that it has an ATB system, but I’ve never been fond of changing Dresspheres in the middle of…

Individually, none of X-2's minigames are especially taxing and are nowhere near as involved as the monster arena or Blitzball in X, but the fact that you need to do everything in X-2 to unlock the secret ending defeated me.

I don’t recall podracing ever being cool, even now.

I live in Canada and do not tip 20 percent unless I go to a fairly cheap restaurant or receive exceptional service. The servers here get minimum wage plus most of the tips, and the main reason I try to be generous is so that the other restaurant employees get some of that bonus money.

I think it’d also be great if a current NBA great, like Harden, Durant, Westbrook, Kawhi, etc., loses his basketball skills in the movie and gets cut from his team in favour of Nick Young.

It could be fun, but it doesn’t matter to me because I’m never going to give EA money for this travesty of a game.

It took me a second longer to get this joke than it should have.

I like that Aeris is called Aeris in this article and not Aerith.

It’s a decent trick to use against someone who’s standing well behind the baseline, to make them move up a bit, but it definitely loses effectiveness quickly in tennis.

I’m pretty sure the empty seats wouldn’t happen pretty much anywhere else when it’s Federer playing. I’m surprised that even happened in Miami.

It’s difficult to place hits with full swings, but baseball players have been placing bunts down the line for over a hundred years. Some of the shifts against left-handed batters are so extreme that the bunt wouldn’t even need to be that good.

Half of the media would defend Williams vehemently because, yes, that young player is much too dramatic and Williams is telling it like it is, while the other half would roast Williams for disrespecting her opponent and disgracing the game of tennis. I mean, that’s what usually happens whenever Serena does anything.