Since I’m not sure how “maybe accidentally unlocking his car” is in fact supposed to differ from what Bortles did, and since he too left valuables in an unlocked car (in a less secure/monitored space), yes, I would call it the same. At least if folks are going to go nuts about any criticism of Smith for what he did…

Or how about the Deadspin column about why Bortles is sloppy but it’s “dopey” to note what Smith did.

Truly. Just yesterday I thought I was pretty much a racist for thinking a guy had to be a dope to leave stuff in his unlocked car overnight. Glad to know I’m not!

Wasn’t I just reading somewhere that only a Dopey Columnist would chastise a football player for leaving his car unlocked so a thief could get into it? As in

In today’s age of gigantic goaltenders, Saros (listed 5'11") looked positively diminutive in the net.

The first goal, sneaking in by his skate, I would not describe as “incredibly soft” but freakish, and something that can happen to any goalie in that position. (Second one—yes, bad). The Preds got the game to 2-1, in its raucous home arena, and then the Jets kept pouring it on, so I wouldn’t pin it all on Rinne—though…

I’m not following. Do you actually think Darvish was sick enough (with the suspicious “parainfluenza virus,” which is not “the flu”) that he needed to go on the DL?

Really, he’s not allowed at all to criticize a guy for leaving possessions including an iPad—any iPad, let alone playbook—in a car overnight that he seemed to have left unlocked (“break-in” was more of an open-in)?

I wonder what the refereeing was like. The NHL used to have more of these marathons when players were allowed to hold with impunity and drag people down as the refs “let the players decide.” It made the outcome even more random than it is by nature in overtime.

And in a regulation game, 40 shots is considered “getting up there.”

My gym shower room sounds like a Beijing subway platform with all the guys obsessivlely honking out every last gobulet of mucus. The combination of the steam and the water and the drain compels them to “clean out the pipes,” not that the effect has any lasting duration. You know, you can shit in the shower, and that’s…

Saying you have to see a movie like Avengers... right away so you will avoid spoilers is just a front for a toddler’s impatience. The movie is going to be there in three weeks, and you will like it just as much. You can avoid spoilers simply by not actively courting them. I spend half my work day scanning the Internet…

You think any casual US fan would tune in because a team from Winnipeg was vying to achieve a Canadian milestone? Even Nashville would do better, owing to the connection with country stars.

And none of the more lucrative US market. Plus Winnipeg would not have rabid national appeal.

I think Phil was pretty obviously hurt, and Malkin seemed to be as well. Guentzel probably had a bad shoulder.

He does excel at moving the puck out of the D zone and at operating the power play—two valuable skills in a defenseman. And he plays rather tough for someone of his size. But his brain has seriously gone south and he makes inexplicable errors including the two that lost game 5.

I didn’t even hear that mentioned, but you are right, at least if the ref had the spine to call it. Letang clearly did it intentionally. And it was stupid, because at that point, K was going to score or he wasn’t; you’re just giving him another breakaway try.

On the other hand, the Penguins were pretty much no-Kessel, no-Malkin.

Vegas’s GM McPhee also was able to leverage and manipulate the draft rules in ways that people had not really anticipated; he cannily put the squeeze on teams to extract maximum value from either his picks or consideration for not picking a player that a team wanted to retain.

“The two worst-kept secrets in hockey were that 1)the Penguins were prepared to hitch their wagon to the decade-younger Matt Murray and would not protect Fleury in the upcoming expansion draft, and 2)Vegas would select Fleury, the closest thing to a big name and a recognizable face that would be available in the…