This is what it’s boiling down to. I do have to say, there’s something wrong with AB. He’s taken some brutal head shots over the years, which can’t have helped.

I know it’s just one measure, but it’s a big one: if you look at all-time PPG leaders, you have the top guys, Lemieux, Gretzky, Orr, but Crosby is 6th on that list, in the dead puck era, no less. He plays a 200-foot game. He also has the hardware. I don’t think it’s a Pittsburgh-centric notion at all that he is top 10…

Haha calm down Randy from Dundalk.

Yep--that’s not what happened. If you look at the video, Wilson makes a beeline for Oleksiak who barely had enough time to shake off his gloves. I’m not saying it was a cheap shot, Wilson caught him with a strong right to the jaw, but it was an instigated fight not a “wanna go? ok” type deal.

The Pens are going to go as far as Matt Murray takes them. That was a great hockey game.

Actually, it is.

Portnoy’s Complaints

Ryan Reaves for president of earth

SI is making a mountain out of a mole hill. 

It was an exhilarating game to watch, but if this becomes the new normal, it will just become the the NBA-ing of the NFL. And if that’s your thing, fine. But to me, part of the drama of football, or baseball or hockey, is that a score in the first three quarters matters.

There seems to be a stigma about that.

he’s...good

the most deadspiniest blog  ever

Mom?

Huh? It was an innocuous play, but nothing illegal. 

All three rivers would flow with blood like in the bible.

Exxx-fucking-zactly

but it’s not like the gymnastics team was founded specifically so that the team doctor could molest the gymnasts

While it would punish the gymnasts, they could transfer. While shutting down Penn State football (and burning and salting the ground under Beaver Stadium) would have punished the players, they could transfer. I’m sure the sit-out year would be waived. But both scandals were borne of a culture of secrecy because the…

Gotta be John Steigerwald then.