THANK YOU. Many years ago, I lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, which had at the time (and continues to maintain) a fearsome reputation for violent crime which put it in a league with places like Kabul or Bogota. I rented a cottage in Parktown, a leafy near-north suburb, which was on the estate of an Afrkaaner…

4 Pred power play opportunities including a 5 on 3 does not swing an advantage toward the Pens with 0 opportunities. Especially when the Preds were blatantly committing interference not just last night but all series, that largely went uncalled.

Whose rules are we playing under? 80's/90's physicality + hand check would cripple Steph for life shortly after the tip. But they would foul out in the 1st quarter under today’s rules - which would have those 90's teams scratching their head when Curry shot freely from 30 feet (and made it).

Kerr also added: Except for the ‘96 Bulls. Those guys, especially the guys coming off the bench, would have crushed this team.

As a Pens fan, it’s maddening to see the Crosby takes. Either he’s a bitch who flops, or a “dirty” player when he starts to give it back. Certainly didn’t get praised for standing around in the ECF getting slashed at the Ottawa bench, followed by water being squirted into his gloves.

Anyway, the water bottle incident…

YOU’RE EMBARRASSING ME, DAD

City hall now estimates the total cost would be $1.75 billion to $1.83 billion, with public investment of $1.2 billion to nearly $1.4 billion.

I was curious so I tried to do the math. Uber takes 20% off the top of the 632, so you’re left with 500 bucks, plus the 300 tip so that’s roughly $800.

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.

Next you’re going to tell me all those beautiful Instagram women of my dreams aren’t peacefully hiking in Antelope Canyon dressed to the 9s.

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…

This is idiotic. The league doesn’t give a good fuck about Crosby when they allow him to take the punishment he’s taken season in and out. That is something they DO have control over, rather than say, one missed call by an offical.

This tidbit from ESPN’s story is gold-

Fucking Jewel was there?

I agree. You can’t throw a guy with one NHL start into game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals with the team already down 0-2. That’s insanity.

Murray was the “usual goalie” this year; in recent years for Pittsburgh it’s been Marc-Andre Fleury, who can either look like the most athletic goalie or the worst headcase in history, depending on the night. MAF is a good-to-very-good goalie with at least five good years left - he’ll find a starting spot waiting for…

Alabama is much much worse than Pittsburgh.

If the penguins win, he will be the only goalie ever to win two Stanley Cups as a rookie.

*takes a drag of cigarette, exhales*

The Santas were basically in a cul-de-sac, ceding the heights to the penguins and that’s where they decided to launch their attack?