Not at all. I wasn’t surprised that virtually the entire civilized world picked the Sharks, for as much as they’ve come up short of the Final in recent years. I’m just pointing out the fact that it’s not exactly their year, and that’s coming from someone that had previously left the Penguins for dead when they fired…

Maybe because only 4 out of the 21 paid NHL analysts picked the Pens to win, and the majority consensus from the 17 shills for San Jose was the Sharks’ having a much better balance against the Pens overall.

This is the NHL. It’s tradition that the refs are incompetent, and this is coming from a Pens fan, who sees the officials calling things on the Pens more often than not.

Couture can bitch all he wants, but if he truly wanted to be all strategic about it, he’d be talking to officials instead of blurting it out to reporters in the locker room. With a three day layoff between games 2 and 3, that’s only going to allow Crosby to work on his timing to make sure he doesn’t get called on it.

For all of the haters (because it’s shit like this that makes it completely true):

I’m all for them dropping one in San Jose only because I’m tired of seeing them lift the Cup in the opposing house. Game 6 in ‘91 (Minneapolis), Game 4 in ‘92 (Chicago), and Game 7 in ‘09 (Detroit). Sucks that the only time Pens fans saw the Cup at home was the Game 6 loss in ‘08 to the Wings. Don’t get me wrong, a…

Yes, let the hate flow through you. Most of us Pens fans were pissed off at the shit Rutherford was pulling at this time in ‘14 and even last summer. There had been calls for him to get fired and replaced by Bill Guerin as the GM.

+1 lobotomy

That’s not necessarily the case, though. Granted, I’m making a decent income, and I’m slowly getting to the point where my finances are beginning to become more manageable than they were previously. There are some things that I need to do to get more firmly planted on the positive side of the overall debt equation,…

That’s fucked up. Even if it was cartel related violence.

I’ll check it out. I’m pretty sure it’s as fucked up as I’m thinking it is. Then again, that type of stuff fascinates me.

And even though Pablo’s out of the equation, Medillin and Cali are still relatively intact, aren’t they? It’s disgusting, no matter how you look at it or why.

Bad comparison, sure, but it’s the whole putting excessive value on someone’s livelihood that brought it to mind. It’s still every bit as disgusting making a cash grab by kidnapping someone as it is outright murdering someone who made a mistake in the heat of the moment.

Now that I can understand, and especially with the way certain teams are with their payrolls here. Puts needless targets on a lot of guys that want things to be better at home, of all places. Disgusting.

Agree it’s not funny, but it’s also not mean to be in jest, regardless of who’s ultimately responsible. Shit like this does not (and should never) happen here. Ultimately fucking scary is what it is.

Yeah, but this guy was a part of the national team at one point. This gets a bit more notice than one would think.

That was straight up embarrassing. Granted, the US went 0-1 against Die Mannschaft in the final group match, but still, you would think you’d put up a better fight than 7 straight goals in the span of 58 minutes.

This falls under the whole “if you don’t see it, it isn’t really there” umbrella.

Well, not really, but I was trying to be a bit charitable with my assessment. This kind of shit makes American sports fans seem downright calm, IMHO.

True, but I still remember that Columbian that got shot and killed after an own goal in the ‘94 World Cup here. While that may still happen to this gentleman (hopefully, it doesn’t), it’s just a testament to how hardcore supporters tend to be in their own countries.