If your rubric is who most dominated a single event or two, Katie Ledecky surpassed both last week.

A distinct lack of access to venture capital or programming ability, I reckon.

As opposed to the fine folks at Gawker Media who think it’s a public service to squawk about the (thinly, thinly rumored) private lives of individuals chosen largely at random.

You appear to be thinking of Stephen Strasburg, the Nats’ other ace.

I preferred when he kept the choking off the mound.

Cue Letang truthers in 3 . . . 2 . . .

But I wouldn’t be surprised to see a team that’s fourth in CF% over the measured span and didn’t employ Matt Cooke for 5 years come in pretty high in this measure.

If you can’t see the foot of space between torso and elbow, I think we’re done here.

Penalties are, in theory, supposed to be loosely correlated with possession (guys with the puck don’t generally take penalties, guys chasing the puck carrier do). The explanations for the above data, based on that premise, are that either (1) The Penguins (and Rangers) have been absurdly good possession teams for…

I don’t have suspension data handy, but the penalty numbers are pretty striking

Late. Led with the elbow. Made contact with the head. Arguably launched.

I swear I wasn’t trying to set that up—it’s just the nomenclature

Yes and no—by the book, hitting someone who isn’t playing the puck is a 2 minute minor for interference. In practice, rubbing a guy out along the boards even after a dump-in is ordinarily let go.

Not sure why anyone is defending Mrazek here—his decisionmaking to come out and play that puck was simply indefensible with the dump-in being (1) from the blueline and (2) weak enough to give the forecheck time to develop, regardless of whether Ericsson should have bailed him out.

The Phillies that actually lost by a larger margin to Washington’s 2nd best team a few days ago?

Yes, it is possible for disanalogous situations to exist.

Absolutely shocking that the tribute night to the guy behind the “Broad Street Bullies” would devolve into an undisciplined shitshow

In fairness, that’s not the worst tribute you could give a guy who tried to end Valeri Kharlamov’s career for shits and giggles

Weird—I was at Game 7 in 2008, and all I remember is the fans applauding after the OT game-winner for the run that Caps had just finished.

And that wasn’t even their only criminal hit of the night!