This is a horrendously bad take

EXACTLY! Thank you. This is all about establishing a pattern and then exploiting the over correction to it. Killorn cheats just the slightest bit to take away the lane up top and Backstrom slides it inside. That wasn’t an accident, that’s preparation and execution. 

“Chiarelli’s not an imbecile”

You certainly would as an innocent man, but what if you were an innocent 15 year old who is being told that you sign this piece of paper and take some classes and this all goes away?

I take it this Caps fan has never heard of Dale Hunter?

Oh the humanity!!!! A weak swing of a stick that did absolutely nothing to anyone

What’s going on? You already said it, hockey is a very fast game and the refs are human. The Morrissey call most likely simply wasn’t seen, it’s away from the play and part of a net front battle which a ref can easily be screened out of. The Doughty hit was right on the edge, he catches some shoulder before the head,…

The only thing I can see, and I really don’t agree with the call if this is what they’re focusing on, is Arvidson tying up Luongo’s stick/blocker hand right around the 2.4 second mark. Does this cause Luongo to move? Yeah, a bit, but fuck me it’s a net front battle and Luongo reaches out to engage Arvidson. This…

Typically I respond in response to what others type, so yes???

“Do you think the grand jury that passed on the case had experience driving race cars on dirt tracks?”

You don’t buy the assertions on how these car works from someone who knows despite you admitting to having no fucking clue about the topic? Do you understand how stupid you sound?

You don’t understand how a civil suit works do you? First of all, they don’t establish guilt or innocence. Second, there is an inherent risk any time you go to trial.

Are you both blind and stupid?

He embellished it? He got hit in the neck. Even if you want to argue that the stick did not make contact his reaction is a perfectly natural response to a stick coming within an inch of his face.

Doesn’t change the fact that it’s horse shit call that precipitates the entire incident

You do understand that you are part of that louder and more annoying crowd, correct?

Not a chance. Did you notice how many times both teams retreated into their own zones or held the puck near the perimeter? Some of this is due to the big ice, but a lot of it is due to the lack of checking. When you can’t finish a hit you can’t press a player as hard, failing to let up will be a penalty, and the puck…

The fact he can pull off plays like that posted is only part of the story, avoiding costly errors is just as (if not more) important. Dahlin does play a game that can sometime lead to those types of mistakes, I’m inclined to take the good with the bad there but I can see why a coach would be more conservative. He was…

Crowing? The fuck are you talking about?

“Gary Bettman’s first, last and always recourse is the lockout.”