As a casual fan who usually only tunes in for the playoffs, I watched almost none of them before the finals this year because the end result was so inevitable. The only plausibly competitive matchup with the Warriors were the Spurs, and then Leonard was unceremoniously taken out 20 minutes into game 1.

Oh, of course. Kessel is a huge boon for the Pens because he’s a near-superstar who demands tons of attention, and to date no one has had the blue line depth to be able to deal with all three of those guys, let alone all three of them and solid contributing players on the Pens 3rd and 4th lines. Add in excellent if…

It appears that Norwegian third tier football plays on fields with about the same prestige as my alma mater’s intramural fields.

What’s more terrifying for the rest of the NHL and the Penguins’ legion of haters (only a handful of fanbases in the West who fell to Nashville were pulling for them, like the Ducks) is that the only notable unrestricted free agents they have this summer are Nick Bonino, Trevor Daley, and an aging Chris Kunitz.…

I fucking hate that sunroof with the white-hot intensity of a thousand supernovas.

Or a brand new M2

Throw that in a pot, add a potato, some broth, and baby you’ve got a stew going!

Millbury is such a giant piece of shit. Always has been, always will be.

I’m all for embracing being the evil empire/Patriots of hockey if that means we get titles.

Should have been Malkin IMO, though you could argue that any of those three should have won it

Did the Preds get hosed on that early whistle? Yes. Did the refs do everything in their power to give it back via giving them 5 power plays to the Penguins’ zero (the equivalent of awarding an NBA team 0 free throws in a playoff game)? Yes.

Vintage Arenaball

If that Scotland player passed it to the teammate on his left instead of trying to squeeze it in to the one on the right, there were no England players around and he could have taken it all the way down to the other end to eat up more time. Shame.

Of course, with dealership markup, it will probably be $50,000+. Is there a reason they are only producing this car for 2 years?

Jeff Reed would have pissed on the glass and pressed his junk up against it, so this is progress. 

but because hockey is a game of constant aggravation, tiny whacks (meant or not) to the exact spot where there’s no padding, fantastic amounts of trash talk

At least he isn’t a rapist like your boy Kane.

Name more than Savard.

You’re aware it was in response to Subban being wrapped around his leg holding him down behind the net while the play was going to the other end of the ice, right? It wasn’t random. If Crosby was wrapped around someone’s legs like an anaconda he’d deserve whatever the other guy did to him to get him to let go as well.…