Last year’s loss was excruciating but excusable. They were missing Chris Paul and it was possible to look at 0-27 as some cosmic anomaly. Sometimes, sports is cruel.

The Rockets:

I hate the warriors with the passion of one thousand suns. But man, shit, it was cool to see them acting like the warriors of a few years ago. I don’t know how to reconcile this other than to make some pizza rolls and have one more coors light and say

Can’t wait for the 20-page leaked report on how the scorer’s table cost the Rockets this game.

I’m not here for her humanity, continue to be the stepford wife you were all too happy to let us know you were sis.

I feel like "sis" should be reserved for people whose humanity you acknowledge.

I wouldn’t mind seeing a bunch of jerks win for the exact same reason.

I want nothing more for Joe Thornton to score 4 goals in game 7 against Boston to win the Cup.

Makes sense to me because they are different rules with different standards. If the puck hit him, it would be Too Many Men. If he punched/hooked/interfered with somebody, it would be roughing/hooking/interference. He isn’t a non-entity, the rules still apply to him. He just gets an exception for that one rule as long…

Too many men only requires discretion because that’s how the NHL wrote the rule. They could mandate waiting until your teammate is completely off the ice until your skates hit the ice coming off the bench. 

Wait, so if you’re a coach and you’re able to challenge a goal by the other team, you’re not going to exercise that option? Feel free to dispute whether or not they should have that option available, but a coach who lets stand an opposing goal that they have a legitimate case to challenge isn’t going to be a coach for…

100%. If you leave it open to arbitrary determination based on whether the referee thinks the player is “close enough” to the bench or not, it opens way too large a can of worms. How many strides is close enough?

I’m confused about this article. Are you arguing that refs should have MORE discretion in making last minute calls, to better honor “the spirit of the game”? Or that they should be more consistent in whistling offsides calls when there’s that overlap in players hopping in and out (which would clearly slow the pace of…

This is something you learn when you are 8 years old when playing hockey. Exit the zone before going to the bench. Yes, it is a stupid rule that doesn’t affect the game play. It is the same as turning toward second base after you cross first base playing baseball. In youth hockey, before the 2nd period starts, one of…

I pine for a few weeks ago when some people suggested all those first-round upsets were “bad for the NHL.” Just had to wait for a half-dozen byzantine rule fuckups in elimination games to remind us again that this league will step on its own dick every time.

The original article actually had dividend stocks as the third highest ‘recommended’ option (out of 8) - just behind “real estate crowdsourcing” and “creating your own products”*. Nicole’s summary seemed to focus mostly on real estate (possibly because ‘rental properties’ are what many people first think of for passive…

I think there’s a difference between saying “I can’t stand this” and taking the extra step to say “I can’t stand this so therefore you shouldn’t fly with your children”.

You buried the lede.

Because it’s so easy to “get them away from people” in a crowded airport.

yeah, no, you’re wrong. If you think the parent of that kid doesn’t know what a terror the child is being, then your head is crammed so far up your ass you can floss with your chest hair.