Fer fuck’s sake Pens. I’m staying up to watch this when all I want to do is sleep, so could you please not shit the bed?
*** Update ***
Nope. Another Sharks powerplay. Pens have sucked since the game before the Olympics, and I am not sure what they are doing wrong.
PurpleGirl
Not recognizing the team names, what sport is this?
poptartacus
hokey is about fighting like nascar is about crashes? yes? I like to think the movie Slapshot sums it up. most people watch it to enjoy the carnage.
Grisha
Go Sharks!
C.S.Strowbridge
Think you have it bad. I’m a Canucks fan.
RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual
Fuck Mike D’Antoni, Mitch Kupchak, and Jim Buss. Fuck you all, you stupid motherfuckers.
/bitter Laker fan
Neech
@C.S.Strowbridge: I can beat that, I’m an Islander fan.
? Martin
Well said Sen Harkin.
@poptartacus: No. NASCAR tries to avoid crashes. Hockey doesn’t try to avoid fights. They could easily arrest any individual starting a fight for assault. That’d take them out of the game for the evening (nobody would ever press charges) but it’d soon put an end to it.
Suffern ACE
I’ve never been to a hockey game and maybe I’ve watched three or four in the past 30 years. I got tickets to go through work to a New Jersey team. Am I supposed to bring an octopus to throw on the ice or is that some other sport?
RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual
That is a tradition of the Detroit Red Wings during the playoffs. It’s still the regular season.
NotMax
@Suffern ACE
Not a sports follower of any stripe but surmise for “professional” hockey that bringing a bag of teeth and tossing them out like confetti is never out of style.
MattR
FYWP. You win.
C.S.Strowbridge
@Neech:
At least you have four Stanley Cups to look back on.
KG
@RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual: it’s not really on them. Kobe has missed 56 games, Nash has missed 50, Farmar missed 30… Seriously, they’ve had 7 different people start at point guard. You can’t expect anything that resembles success when most days you have more players on the injured list than on the active roster.
techno
I hate goon hockey as much as anyone so tonight, I celebrated the fact that the Red Wings retired the jersey of Niklaus Lidstrom. In 20 seasons, he helped win four Stanley Cups, won seven Norris trophies, a Conn Smythe, and got the gold winning goal at the Torino Olympics. And in all that time, he never had a fighting major penalty.
Of course, he is not a Canadian but rather a Swede—one of the earth’s more enlightened tribes.
NotMax
My, my, my.
Cable company just ran a local ad touting that they now carry al-Jazeera America on their digital service as a reason to sign up.
Goblue72
The Pens clearly need to express their anal glands.
techno
@poptartacus:
Of course, that is NOT the message of “Slapshot.” This movie (Paul Newman’s personal favorite BTW) is about how the carnage of rust belt factory closures led to many manifestations of brutality. And not everyone signed on to the goon plans.
Slapshot was written by a Minnesota woman who loved her minor league players but was disgusted with how their lives had been brutalized in the 1970s.
It is easily the best sports movie ever made—about any sport.
Ian
@NotMax:
Between the BBC and Al-Jezeera i get most of my news. After I read this, I decided most news from the United States was a waste of my time
NotMax
@Ian
If (1) I knew the channel number (long, long ago erased it from the rotation on the remote) and (2) was not averse to becoming severely nauseated, would watch FOX ‘News’ for a while to see if the cable company is running the same spot during local breaks there.
My guess is they aren’t.
raven
ed_finnerty
Duh
Kris Letang ?
Losing your number 1 defence man can hurt a team
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: The Ukraine is well and truly fvcked now.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Maybe we can let Russia have Crimea if they also take South Carolina.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Maybe we can do a 3 way deal…. What would we have to give to get Mexico to take back Texas?
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Throw in a state to be named later and they might go for it.
raven
These douchebags on MJ babble on about America is “exhausted from 12 years of war”. What a fucking joke, who’s exhausted? The phony ass, money grubbing “Wounded Warriors” fundraisers?
Baud
@raven:
Really? I didn’t realize Wounded Warrior was a scam.
raven
@Baud: Check Charity Navigator for their “administrative expenses”. Scroll down to read John Reed’s take
Program Expenses
(Percent of the charity’s budget spent on the programs
and services it delivers) 57.9%
Administrative Expenses 5.6%
Fundraising Expenses 36.3%
Fundraising Efficiency $0.23
Primary Revenue Growth 78.6%
Program Expenses Growth 62.9%
Working Capital Ratio (years)
36.3% for “fundraising”. Right
Baud
@raven:
Couldn’t make it through Reed’s rant. Sorry.
You gotta spend money to make money. /Mitt Romney
raven
Wounded Warriors Charity Navigator comments.
raven
@Baud: Reed is certainly not everyone’s cup of tea but he calls it right on “hero” bullshit.
Xboxershorts
@Neech:
Try being a Sabres fan. Although they are 3 and 1 since returning from the Olympics break
Suffern ACE
@raven: yep. In the past two days, we’ve managed to get our pork exports banned and the Crimean secession referendum moved up. I’d say things are escalating nicely for the hawks.
frapalinger
Can’t wait for a Flyers-Pens playoff series.
jgriffaz
They’re just bored and waiting for the regular season to end.
Linnaeus
Hell, my Red Wings might not even make the playoffs this year. They’re third in the league of man-games lost to injury (including their top two players, Zetterberg and Datsyuk) and have been having trouble putting together wins consistently. One upside, maybe, is that they’ve had to bring up their younger talent (the Red Wings organization tends to let players develop in the minors for a pretty long time) and some of those guys show great potential for the future. The experience will be very good for them.
ETA: Not really complaining, though. I of course would love for the Wings to contend for the Cup every year, but they’ve had a great run and even the best teams have to rebuild at some point. I feel pretty good about the future.
dollared
Wow JC, they gave up 4 goals in the 3rd period. I’d be having a heart attack.
Thursday
Another Canucks fan here, so little sympathy: my guys have been just hideous to watch this year. Utterly listless play and a coach with little imagination and no interest in offense. Until that last game against Dallas, I wouldn’t have believe they could fall into a top-5 draft position. Now…?
Maybe Shero should have sweetened the pot for Kesler, eh? An offer to take Tortorella would do it, I think.
DaveInOz
The Twitterverse tells me the Pens haven’t won in San Jose since 1997