NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs 2012

The logic is just ridiculous. If a 4th liner gets hit in the head a coach can say he is out with a concussion and sit him. Any contact to the head a player should jus stay down. Punish the act, not the result.

 

Dear Penguins,

Thank you so much for sucking so bad and for acting like such assholes and fucking babies and for putting together three of the biggest choke jobs in hockey history thus dominating the headlines and making sure the entire world of hockey is talking about how much you suck, how much your stars suck and how much you are embarrassing yourself.

Please do this for one more game so as to make sure everybody remains distracted by your overall level of sucktitude and thus they will continue to miss the fact that we have sucked equally as bad, have embarrassed ourselves almost as much and are going to get swept by an 8-seed.

Sincerely,

The Canucks

 

You pretty much nailed it there.

 

No, because then we start creeping down the road to "Rollerball." When you start catering to the lowest common denominator in an attempt to attract "casual" fans, you wind up getting just that - the lowest form of your sport. IndyCar tried to "spike fan interest" by creating "exciting" conditions for the season finale in Las Vegas, and look how that turned out.

If this doesn't get nipped in the bud, someone's getting sucker punched and isn't going to get up. It's going to be Steve Moore or worse, expect with the focus of the playoffs, and there will be a new round of hand-wringing and recriminations about the role of violence in hockey.

 

In the wake of that bagarre generale yesterday between the Flyers and Pens I just thought I would add that the best NHL fight I ever saw live was between Craig Berube and Basil McRae at Maple Leaf Gardens when Berube was with the Leafs and McRae was with the North Stars.

 

I nominate this post for SportsJournalists.com Hall of Fame.

 

Capitals take the 1-0 lead. I believe it's Semin who scored.

Go Caps.

 

Holtby lets in a weak one, but Ovechkin comes back and scores.

2-1 Capitals

 

Not exactly playoff related..but funny
Don Cherry: Piano Man LOL

 

Lundqvist had a helluva game for the Rangers.