To a degree, we didn’t have a choice. Torts was the only significant name out there when we fired Todd Richards (on his birthday at 0-7-0). That said, maybe it was one of those Hockey Gods blessings because clearly it is working out and keeping things exciting for all the right reasons.

Okay I guess I am wrong. I meant the first alternate with RoboPenguin in the late 1990s. Remember that one?

I’m not going to lie, I didn’t pay attention to the WC because it’s Bettman’s way to try and avoid the Olympics. Plus the commercials for it with that weird 1970's porn stache guy just turned me away from it.

Already working on the African American vote for 2020, I see...

Lemieux basically made it his mission when he took over as owner to rectify that. But Vegas gold?! Glad they truly fixed things in the past couple of seasons, including appropriate road unis this year.

Counterpoint: No salary cap, and Bettman had yet to implement his dirty fingers into everything after taking over early that year. Because, everything is Bettman’s fault, lol. I can hear Jim Nantz of CBS now... “A tradition like no other, the booing of Bettman during the Stanley Cup presentation.”

I’m going to go to the default sentiment everyone has, whether it’s 100 percent true or not.

No one has sent out their thug line to start a brawl at faceoff, either, lol. Man that was an interesting VAN-CGY game.

We still have people from the 2014 playoff appearance, and others were on the Calder Cup title team in Cleveland last year, so I don’t think we’re going to be scared in the postseason.

Put it this way: There’s only ONE THING that is being ran away with right now, and that’s Torts for the Jack Adams trophy for best coach.

You have our old AHL coach who won the AHL Calder Cup last year. Give him time. He’s a good dude. I hope he can achieve what the lauded Patrick Roy could not.

Philly is starting to slack but whoever is WC1 is probably going to go to the Atlantic as the Metro may get the No. 1 team in the conference, if not the league. And that WC1 team may come out and it’s Metro vs. Metro for the SCF berth.

One thing about our rivalry though... we finally got the idea that Let’s Go Jackets…

Torts has changed. I followed him in Tampa Bay, NYR, and Vancouver. He isn’t this raging asshole like he used to be. He has changed his coaching style. It’s like a WWE wrestler who was heel and is now babyface.

And still have games in hand. Even when we had loaded weeks, we STILL have the least amount of games played on most nights of the season. (We do have the most back to backs with 19. We might catch up sometime.)

We had a hell of a series two years ago you took in six games, didn’t we? Of course, you guys probably wanted to absolutely strangle Fleury after Game 4, but the rivalry is budding and I bet it’s on the verge of exploding.

The streak ending sucks. Anyone who follows a team and they have a winning streak like that get snapped, it’s never fun. But for me, following since inception and dealing with years and years of banging my head into a concrete wall with the likes of Doug MacLean and Scott Howson (for the short list), I am still damn…

Guy should be banned from the league and not allowed to play for his deplorable actions. A woman beater does not belong in the league. End of story. The team that drafts him needs to be heavily reprimanded. I just don’t understand what his appeal is, when there are many other RBs out there that can do the job.

Looks like this Mitsubishi dealership likes to bear down when it comes to sales and advertising.

He knocked out two women in a Hooters restaurant and there were nine left standing that he had yet to approach?

Find a hooker with big boobs and attend a game Brent is broadcasting?