Pens playing the Caps.
Dogs are out in the yard. No pictures because Lily was pooping and a girl has to retain her dignity, yo.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
Hot air and ill-informed banter
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.
A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.
Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.
Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.
The revolution will be supervised.
New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.
A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.
Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.
Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.
“More of this”, i said to the dog.
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.
We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.
If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!
Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
Second rate reporter says what?
Jeffraham Prestonian
GO PREDS!
JPL
Go Lily!
Mr Stagger Lee
How does that happen the Las Vegas Golden Knights, first year in the league, and can run the table to win the Cup. Gotta love the Elvis cheering section.
Mart
I got a question. If there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia; why did the GOP convention platform hate on NATO and be OK with Russia in Ukraine?
Go Pens.
efgoldman
In a just athletic world, an earthquake would cause the ice to split open, Last Crusade style, and swallow both the Penguins and Capitals down to the bowels of the earth.
Stan
Go Pens !!!!!!!
efgoldman
@Mr Stagger Lee:
The NHL has a hard salary cap that makes it difficult for teams to re-sign players, sometimes even their best ones.
Instead of doing the usual, and exposing marginal players and chaff to expansion, many teams dangled higher paid good players, figuring Vegas wouldn’t take on the contracts. They figured wrong, and McPhee (Vegas GM) drafted very well.
Yarrow
Sounds like Lily is still doing well. Would love another picture later today. Does she have any Pens attire?
@Mart: There is collusion, or more accurately conspiracy, and Republicans are traitors.
efgoldman
Cue raven “nobody gives a shit [about hockey]” in 3… 2… 1…
smintheus
@Mr Stagger Lee: Vegas was given for free their pick of 30 established veterans. They don’t have to develop anyone; they don’t have to depend on rookies to fill out their cap-limited roster; they don’t have to guess about what they’ll be getting from a player; and they didn’t have to take any bottom line or depth players in the bargain.
On top of that, because it’s new Vegas also had the chance to take for free off of waivers any and all players competing to break into the NHL who were sent down to the minors at the end of pre-season (including established vets), and even bundle them to make trades for a better player.
Basically, the NHL let Vegas raid everybody else’s cookie jar repeatedly. What I don’t understand is why people are surprised that Vegas could field a good team right away. What else could have happened in that situation?
efgoldman
@smintheus:
Historically, expansion teams are somewhere between hideous and awful. Most people expected the usual, without paying attention to who the Knights actually had on their roster
ETA: Starting with a multiple cup-winning (if very expensive) goalie.
smintheus
@efgoldman: Teams weren’t able to protect all their good players. Very few teams were not forced to leave a few real steals on the table.
The rules this year are not analogous to the situation in the past. This expansion was created to be a big time raid, maybe partly because the League was putting a team in a place that had zero claim to be a hockey town. The NHL realized that if it did not start winning very fast, it was likely to be another boondoggle sun-belt expansion.
OldDave
I’m very happy for the VGK – in part because it’s either that or weep in despair. Due to some extremely boneheaded decisions by “my” team, who gifted them two-thirds of their first line and a coach who should take the Jake Adams this year.
efgoldman
@smintheus:
Right, but historically back to the first expansion in 1966-67 it hasn’t been the case. Mostly they exposed garbage in each expansion draft.
If the zebras don’t start calling obvious penalties, the third period will be total chaos and someone is going to get hurt, badly.
HeleninEire
Poop Lily, Poop.
smintheus
@efgoldman: Did you watch the Bruins game yesterday? The officiating was bewildering. A bunch of ridiculously soft calls, along with a bunch of blatant infractions that were ignored. The better team prevailed despite the officials best efforts to screw it up.
raven
fuck lbj
smintheus
That’s an insanely bad no-goal call.
efgoldman
@smintheus:
Of the four major sports hockey is the toughest to officiate (the NBA isn’t as tough as they say) because of the speed and size of the rink. Adding a second referee, like they did a couple of years ago, helped. OTOH, very few kids want to grow up to be an NHL official.
As an alumnus of Boston U, I’m enjoying how many area kids are already prominent in these playoffs.
efgoldman
@raven:
I’m pretty sure he never laced up skates.
Duane
@raven: How do you feel about the NHL? Efg wants to know.
efgoldman
@Duane:
I know!
I’m waiting for Georgia to fire Kirby.
Duane
@efgoldman: Yeah, Kirby needs to go. Georgia’s a 500 club next year with him. (Goodbye. Gotta run!)
raven
sheeeeeet
Cheryl from Maryland
@smintheus: Totally agree, and I’m a Caps fan.
pinacacci
I am surprised there is Lily restraint…I guess even Lily can’t make pooping look good.
J R in WV
The only time I deliberately sat down to watch hockey was years ago when we went to a business convention for my wife’s biz. There was a banquet, followed by an awards ceremony, awards for people I didn’t know, so I crept out after dessert, went to our room and set down to watch Hockey.
We don’t have cable, never have, so even if the games were televised I wouldn’t be able to see the puck.
Anyway, not far into the game, I began to feel… bad. Queasy and upset. Followed by 6 hours of empty out syndrome! Turns out about 30% of banquet attendees were affected, probably from a stack of plates or glasses or forks.
Wife got back to the room late, 2 am or so, I was still in the every 20 minutes empty out cycle, until 6 am or so. Next morning, we had to drive 4 hours back home. When wife stopped for gas, she got a orange soda, which when opened attacked me somehow. I rode with the window open for a while, and still can’t abide orange pop, nor artificial orange flavored anything.
Hockey, now does that go again? I don’t recall….. ;-)
WaterGirl
@J R in WV: Love your stories, even when they aren’t happy ones.
Joeg
“No goal” was good call.
Here is CBC/Sportsnet explaining parralax view/geometry regarding how views are distorted by angles.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/how-geometry-created-the-illusion-of-a-flames-goal/
smintheus
@Joeg: No, that does not support the no-goal call. It was not merely that white ice was visible in front of the puck. It was also the fact that at one stage the entire puck disappears behind the post from that angle before being pulled back into view, meaning it must have been fully across the line when it was obstructed by the post.
Joeg
@smintheus: Respectfully, there was no video proving your assumption that once the puck disappeared it was over the line. Disappearing behind the post when the goalies pads or skates are also pressed along the post can also mean the puck is pressed to the post rather than across the goal line. Goal video reviews can not make assumptions based upon the puck disappearing. Same with a goalie making a glove save at the goal line if video shows parts of the glove over the line. The puck must be seen over the line. Full Stop.
Joeg
@smintheus: Also, the popular argument that it was a goal is based upon that still frame picture. Not because the puck disappeared inside the post although a better overhead shot may indeed have shown puck fully over line.
Great game tho and Pens will likely win series and face the Bs.