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NHL Open Thread

by John Cole|  May 7, 20137:01 pm| 30 Comments

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Let’s go Pens!

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  1. 1.

    Comrade Mary

    May 7, 2013 at 7:07 pm

    Did you quote him as “Let’s go, Pen!s”?

  2. 2.

    Yatsuno

    May 7, 2013 at 7:08 pm

    The 11th domino has fallen.

  3. 3.

    BGinCHI

    May 7, 2013 at 7:10 pm

    @Comrade Mary: That’s exactly how I first read it.

    Too much grading……

  4. 4.

    BGinCHI

    May 7, 2013 at 7:11 pm

    @Yatsuno: Does that mean it’s time to bomb Hanoi?

  5. 5.

    PsiFighter37

    May 7, 2013 at 7:11 pm

    @Comrade Mary: Looks like it was the cats that got him stuck. Heh.

  6. 6.

    Tonal Crow

    May 7, 2013 at 7:11 pm

    On the “spam filter”, the proper spelling of “sockialism” still causes my messages to be bit-bucketed without notice.

  7. 7.

    PsiFighter37

    May 7, 2013 at 7:12 pm

    I just LOL’ed, John just got stepped on both AL and DougJ. Tells you how much the rest of the FPers think about the Pens, Cole.

  8. 8.

    Tonal Crow

    May 7, 2013 at 7:12 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    @Yatsuno: Does that mean it’s time to bomb Hanoi?

    No. It’s time to invade Iraq. And that’s good news for John McCain.

  9. 9.

    BGinCHI

    May 7, 2013 at 7:14 pm

    @Tonal Crow: You say potato Yatsuno.

  10. 10.

    Yatsuno

    May 7, 2013 at 7:18 pm

    @efgoldman: You used a bad word that refers to kittehs. Don’t have much sympathy. And hey I always have the Nucks if worst comes to worst, although Luongo has been a fucking sieve.

  11. 11.

    Bruuuuce

    May 7, 2013 at 7:24 pm

    Sorry, Cole. Having grown up in Suffolk County, NY during the era of Mike Bossy, I gotta stand up and say “Let’s go, Isles!” More importantly, let’s go, Knicks!

  12. 12.

    scav

    May 7, 2013 at 7:24 pm

    @Yatsuno: Clickety clickity clickety, I think this calls for some of the colorful action Rube Goldburg OK-Go Mixed Media toppling.

  13. 13.

    Comrade Mary

    May 7, 2013 at 7:24 pm

    @efgoldman: You misspelled “Ottawa”. For shame.

  14. 14.

    lamh35

    May 7, 2013 at 7:27 pm

    Charles Ramsey tells how he rescued missing women

    Ramsey says he knows he did a “good deed” but he’s finding it difficult to live with the fact that the three girls were being held against their will next door to him for so long. After retelling the story he originally relayed the night before, Ramsey reacted to the internet sensation he has become, with the anchor asking him what it’s like to be “hashtag Charles Ramsey.”

    “I don’t even want it,” Ramsey said of the attention. “They keep saying I’m a hero. Let me tell you something, I’m an American, and I’m a human being. I’m just like you. I work for a living. There was a woman in distress, so why turn your back on that?”

  15. 15.

    Roger Moore

    May 7, 2013 at 7:49 pm

    @Yatsuno:

    The 11th domino has fallen.

    And the 12th is expected later this week.

  16. 16.

    daverave

    May 7, 2013 at 8:13 pm

    Let’s GO Rangers!!!1!

  17. 17.

    BENJAMIN

    May 7, 2013 at 8:21 pm

    Go Pens…Fuck Yeah!

    Sports and drunken idiocy along with…huzzaaaaaaah…Americanish Idolatry.

  18. 18.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    May 7, 2013 at 8:23 pm

    It will be very nice later this evening if the Sharks boot the Canucks out of the playoffs in a sweep.

  19. 19.

    Bob In Portland

    May 7, 2013 at 8:41 pm

    This is the Sharks’ year, Cole.

  20. 20.

    smintheus

    May 7, 2013 at 9:03 pm

    Subban ought to be serving a suspension for his disgraceful antics last game; instead he scores the first goal. Ugh.

  21. 21.

    Gwangung

    May 7, 2013 at 9:05 pm

    COLE!!! I thought you said the Pirates were lousy?! Having a .500+ record is NOT lousy! Particularly for Pittsbutgh!

  22. 22.

    burnspbesq

    May 7, 2013 at 9:24 pm

    The Mets are going to suck this year, and will probably suck next year, but Matt Harvey is the truth.

  23. 23.

    Yatsuno

    May 7, 2013 at 9:27 pm

    @efgoldman: Psst. 2-0 in the third period. Allez les Habs indeed.

  24. 24.

    VodkaGoGo

    May 7, 2013 at 9:44 pm

    Yikes. Pens are in trouble if they can’t get their goaltending situation straightened out.

  25. 25.

    Breezeblock

    May 7, 2013 at 9:45 pm

    Fleury sucks. How can Bilesma go with him next game, and even next season?

  26. 26.

    dedc79

    May 7, 2013 at 9:51 pm

    @burnspbesq: seconded

  27. 27.

    dedc79

    May 7, 2013 at 9:52 pm

    Imagine my horror as a rangers fan when I found myself rooting for the isles tonight.

  28. 28.

    smintheus

    May 7, 2013 at 9:54 pm

    @Yatsuno: What happened to that lead? After the Pens got spanked, I’d love to see the Habs humiliated tonight.

  29. 29.

    OldDave

    May 7, 2013 at 10:27 pm

    @smintheus:

    After the Pens got spanked, I’d love to see the Habs humiliated tonight.

    Sens win in OT. It’s your lucky day!

  30. 30.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    May 8, 2013 at 1:21 am

    Sharks sweep the Canucks. YES.

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