that and slapping your wife around.

I agree, and I’ll never begrudge a player getting every last dollar he can out of a team. But i’ll play devil’s advocate. It’s not like they are making anyone take a reduction in salary, more like saying ‘yeah you could get paid 10% more to go work at that company in another city, or you could stay here and save the…

The lightning need an overhaul of their defense behind hedman and stralman. Beyond those two they have four third-pairing defensemen. Coburn, Garrison Sustr and Carle just aren’t good enough and it was the difference in this series and against the hawks last year. At times in this series the Penguins were carrying a…

This gives me confidence that the Hawks made the right call in strategically losing to the Blues in order to save Hitchcock’s job. It apparently took him the entire Hawks series and 5 games into this one to to realize maybe he should be giving his only dynamic scoring threat Vladimir Tarasanko more minutes than David…

Mike North is an asshat extraordinaire. between him and Mike Murphy the Score’s morning-lunch lineup was a wasteland of shitty takes and pandering to the meatball ‘blue collar Chicago’ fans who actually believe in things like Bear Weather and cream their pants at the mention of teams that ‘take their lunch pail to…

I’d argue this was the most dominant pitching performance in history. The Astros only managed to hit the ball beyond the infield twice all day. And those Astros were a legitimately good team, winning 102 games that year. The one hit they got could have been called an error and it wouldn’t have been that controversial…

Stars forwards are probably going to need to stop taking up residence on the opposite blueline on the break out. They were constantly floating around deep in the neutral zone waiting for stretch passes, hanging their defensemen out to dry with two forecheckers in their faces and no outlet. Niemi and Lehtonen are…

“rivalries” are at their most pathetic when only one team considers it a rivalry. If you asked a team who their biggest rival is and that team doesn’t reciprocate, it doesn’t deserve the ‘rivalry’ bullshit. When I was at Penn State they seemed to consider Ohio State their big rival whereas Ohio State probably couldn’t…

Now that the hawks strategically allowed the Blues to win (if they had won, the blues would have fired Ken Hitchcock, that definitely would not be in the hawks’ best interest)I’m hoping for a sharks/stars WCF and Islanders/Caps ECF and a Sharks/Caps SCF, though really I’d like to see any one of those teams win it all.

only missing the scarf

He gave up on the mullet to pursue full-time Gru cosplay.

In 2014 he had a 2.53 ERA and a .989 WHIP. If thats “okay” I’d like the cubs to find some more “okay” pitchers. A change of scenery and working with one of the best pitching coaches in the game can do that for a player. The Cubs traded for him based on his FIP being quite a bit better than his ERA, leading the Cubs to…

The key is movement, movement without the puck to create passing lanes and mess up defenders’ assignments. Too many teams try to just pass from point to point and then fire the puck through 4 shin pads on the way in.

Come on, it’s very early in the St. Louis sports calendar, the Blues haven’t even lost in the first round yet.

The traditional justification for fighting in hockey was that it’s an emotional game that involves highly competitive guys flying around at 30 mph in an enclosed space with dangerous weapons in their hands. Since it’s inevitable that players will lose their tempers, the rules need to allow for an outlet for that…

Duncan Keith’s proclivity for this type of retaliatory bullshit will take away any benefit of the doubt. It’ll be at least the rest of the regular season, not sure about playoff games though. If it is, well between his absence and Crawford being locked in the quiet room for who knows how long, the Blackhawks are…

I think you could do worse than having 2 of the 3 likely Vezina finalists this year.

On-ice save percentage of 91.9 for the season at even strength (Price’s limited play is the only reason it’s that high) will do in any team. Combine that with a below average shooting percentage and you get the Hab’s 26th place in PDO at evens (save percentage plus shooting percentage).

“Flames leading scorers Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan, along with forward Lance Bouma, were not in the lineup for Calgary’s last night’s 4-3 win over the Leafs.”