Considering no saves were earned in this game...

Yeah, but you have 4 teams that reside in the eastern time zone. If you stagger the games, the fan bases will complain that the games are on too late. They should have the Western Conference teams play after the Eastern Conference teams, but I’m guessing it wasn’t feasible in this situation.

There are absolutely the guys who are strictly business and/or for whom english is not their first language, so it may come across that way or it can be tougher to see their personalities shine through.

That’s why Evander Kane was traded out of Winnipeg.

As a DC resident, no, it is not awesome.

I believe the scenerio you are thinking of involves a certain spring training star for the Mets.

Apparently the opposing team has to protest to the umps. They didn’t seem very concerned, as most catcher put pine tar or other sticky stuff on their shin pads.

Called it!

Realistically you can’t win no championship with three white guys

So when Chris Simon swung his stick at someone like a baseball bat, you just saw that as part of the game? How about when Todd Bertuzzi sucker punched Steve Moore and ended his career? Or when Happy Gilmore pulled his skate off and tried to stab someone with it? Ok, that didn’t happen but it probably did at some point.

But the top team historically has a higher percentage of winning, than any other of the following 15 seeds individually. Obviously it doesn’t guarantee anything, but it still is a good sign.

1. Just because people have done something in the past, does not mean it’s still okay.

Yes, people make mistakes and overreact sometimes. But Marchand repeatedly acts this way, where as the overwhelming majority of the NHL does not. I’m not saying you can’t be rooting for him to score a goal for your team. But you shouldn’t be normalizing his goonish behavior just so you can be okay with it.

I have never speared someone in the balls for cutting me off. If I did, I would feel regret, and be more aware of my emotions the next time a similar situation come up. Marchand, and other dirty players, show repeated behavior and little to no remorse. He is a good player, but a bad person. You can root for the Bruins…

I agree Colinsworth is terrible. I don’t know how many times he has missed things that are completely obvious or straight up made things up when he felt like he should be saying something interesting.

These dirty shots have nothing to do with the game and actually hurt the team more than help them. You should reconsider your acceptance. It seems like you just want to take the lazy way out and ignore the problem.

There’s a lot done by government in the name of the public good, but are we really any better off?

Using it in a sentence: The Deadspin commenter didn’t see the irony of using a false equivalence while arguing the understanding of a false equivalence.

Since you’re such a wordsmith... Is equating the misspelling of the term “false equivalencies,” with not knowing the definition of “false equivalencies,” the definition of irony?

I am not trying to persuade you of anything, because it has become apparent that you do not see the world in a very clear way, and obviously do not understand libertarians, nor the HB2 controversy. It would be a waste of my time, because you would just call me dumb and make false equivalences to support whatever point…