Absolutely clean hit and the resulting activities are what I hate about today’s NHL.

How has nobody noticed Orpik wrapping his skates around Hutton’s legs once his butt hurt self bounced off the boards? That’s your questionable dirty play right there. Old Brooksie gets irritated when someone checks him. How snowflake of him.

What a waste

Promote Tom Cable as rumored so I can watch Seahawks twitter melt down. I need that. Give it to me.

Bullshit, the hit was pretty standard and maybe even mild but NHL standards.

I don’t like the instigator penalty, but I’m OK with it’s application in this case.

I had a guy call a delay of game on me because I didn’t give the ball back to him quickly enough after he checked it to me, so I called a technical foul on him.

Completely agree it looks bad from that angle, because you see his head jar and a raise of an arm. But on the other one you can see the point of contact is shoulder to shoulder and it doesn’t get near his head. Smith-Pelly might have seen from the other angle and thought it was elbow to head and that’s why he had to…

Clean hit, and certainly not an elbow. Didn’t launch himself. Hit him shoulder to shoulder. Was already going for the hit while Orpik still had the puck and contact made a split second after the shot. Looked worse than it was because of the careening into the boards, but guys shouldn’t have to fight in response to…

suckerdumped there weren’t we

Nah you taught that kid an important lesson: Life is cruel horseshit and you should use booze to cope.

Then don’t run. There seems to be a very simple solution to your concern.

Gates should sell Microsoft in that scenario. Jimmy Carter sold his family peanut farm, just in case. Richard Nixon sold all of his personal investments, just in case, and used the money to buy a home to retire to in California.

This picture looks like Incognito is forcing Sir Patrick Stewart to give him a blowjob.

Kerfluffle is a perfectly cromulent word.

1: Wayne Gretzky is Canadian.

As a Minnesotan I have no absolutely zero beef with Winnipeg. The drinking age is 18 in Manitoba, and if you’re from Minnesota and DIDN’T make a trip up to Thunder Bay (or make the full haul to Winnipeg for a weekend), you weren’t livin’.

Easy there, Julian. Don’t get your fancy TB12 sports panties in a bunch.

I mean, anyone who’s been following the team reasonably closely knows Brady’s going to have no earthly idea what to do without football. He’s likely a great QB precisely because he’s not a well-rounded person with other interests.

“I do want to know the whys in life,” Brady said. “I do want to know why we’re here, where we’re going; trying to find that deeper purpose. To live it, through sports in a very authentic way, makes so much sense to me.