The 2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 8:08 pm

"I'm sorry Mr. and Mrs. Byfuglien, you can't sit down there tonight."

psunate77 · Post by **psunate77** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 8:16 pm

Pens are back to being garbage.

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 8:32 pm

My favorite game is to watch a series and try to figure out what the teams' seeds are.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 8:43 pm

What do you call one of those graphs that's just repeating humps? That's me with Crosby. I appreciate how great he is during the season and then every playoff series or key game I remember what a self-dick-sucker he is with the constant sneaky dirty play and bailing on every confrontation. "Sorry, can't engage here, gotta go suck my own dick on the bench" he probably says.

psunate77 · Post by **psunate77** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:22 pm

mister d wrote:What do you call one of those graphs that's just repeating humps? That's me with Crosby. I appreciate how great he is during the season and then every playoff series or key game I remember what a self-dick-sucker he is with the constant sneaky dirty play and bailing on every confrontation. "Sorry, can't engage here, gotta go suck my own dick on the bench" he probably says.

Don't remind me. He is on the team I root for, well team I Should be rooting for. But Mario as owner ruined it for me a bit. First threatening to leave if they didn't get a arena and then crying when the Islanders goober it up a week after Bret Johnson broke their goals face.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:55 pm

Ducks-Jets game is nuts

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:57 pm

best game of the playoffs thus far, no question. insane.

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:59 pm

121dB

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 10:01 pm

Staying up just to watch. This is crazy.

Also, Steve Ott is a fuckwit of the highest order.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 10:08 pm

MaxWebster wrote:121dB

I bet there's a lot more than that.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 11:29 pm

sancarlos wrote:It's going to be tough for Calgary or Vancouver to do much in the second round, after completely beating each other up in this series!

And Anaheim will be well rested.

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 11:30 pm

ugh. that hurt. much like games 1 and 2. fuckingfuck.

Trav...man....

travzilla · Post by **travzilla** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 11:44 pm

Surpassed expectations, young team, next year, next year, next year...

Ugh. so frustrated though. No one has ever won the first two games of a series when trailing after the 2nd period each time. Ducks have done it three times in a row.

Whatever happens, Wednesday will still be a million times better than the last Jets playoff game i went to.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:12 am

psunate77 wrote:But Mario as owner ruined it for me a bit. First threatening to leave if they didn't get a arena and then crying when the Islanders goober it up a week after Bret Johnson broke their goals face.

Jeez man. If you're going to get on the Pens for that, at least go with Cooke. Fucking DiPietro (shit, he's still only 33!) skated down to Johnson, challenged him, and got beat. That in no way justified calling up a couple of career AHL goons and sending them out on a headhunt. "Goober"??? Tangredi was assaulted.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:15 am

mister d wrote:What do you call one of those graphs that's just repeating humps? That's me with Crosby. I appreciate how great he is during the season and then every playoff series or key game I remember what a self-dick-sucker he is with the constant sneaky dirty play and bailing on every confrontation. "Sorry, can't engage here, gotta go suck my own dick on the bench" he probably says.

So what do you wash the MSG narratives down with when you swallow them whole like that?

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:37 am

degenerasian wrote:Winnipeg looks great!

I don't get the "white out" when the team isn't wearing white. They should've had a blue out.

As if I needed a good excuse to post this.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 8:33 am

rass wrote:So what do you wash the MSG narratives down with when you swallow them whole like that?

This makes me think you don't watch much MSG. They love Crosby.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:06 am

mister d wrote:
rass wrote:So what do you wash the MSG narratives down with when you swallow them whole like that?
This makes me think you don't watch much MSG. They love Crosby.

15-ish games a season? Even if I wasn't slightly pneumonia-ish right now, I wouldn't feel like getting in a Crosby argument this morning. Just iso-cam any player for a game and let's see how "clean" they are.

Rosen is pretty good, though last night I could hear his pants stiffen everytime he mentioned Girardi in the third. He literally moaned in response to plays a couple of times, right?

I think the islanders color commentator (Rose is great, too) used to hate Sid, but I might be thinking of the radio broadcast.

All fandom aside, that was a very entertaining third period last night. Though not drinking might have helped my mood/enjoyment. Hmmm...

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:27 am

Pens front office meltdown is starting a little early....

bapo! · Post by **bapo!** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 12:10 pm

rass wrote:Pens front office meltdown is starting a little early.

You're referring to the Rob Rossi column?

Background for non-yinzers: Rossi is the least-respected sports-media figure in Pittsburgh. He was the Penguins beat writer for the Tribune Review, then was named lead columnist last year when Dejan Kovacevic started his own blog. He's smug and contrarian, and Penguins fans loathe him. And Penguins management hates him, too, apparently.

He wrote a column last week that detailed everything that went wrong with the Penguins this year. It was the kind of post-mortem you read at the end of a lot of failed seasons, but this was before the playoffs even started. Odd timing, and it apparently didn't sit well with management.

After exiting a media elevator and while walking with other reporters to the Penguins' dressing room, Rutherford addressed this columnist, a frequent critic since his hiring last June, in an obscenity-laced diatribe.

“Thanks for your support,” Rutherford said repeatedly.

“You're a (expletive) jerk,” Rutherford said repeatedly.

Rutherford followed the jerk comment with a suggestion to “go sell ice cream now,” then a challenge to look him in the eye, which I did while explaining my role as Trib Total Media's lead sports columnist.

My role is to provide opinion.

“Well, your opinion is (expletive),” Rutherford said.

Rossi's family owns a Dairy Queen. That's where the ice cream comment comes from.

So, watching people take sides this morning has been fun. A lot of people are criticizing Rossi because he printed something that should have been off the record, which is an odd assertion. If somebody starts screaming at me in a hallway, I'm not going to interrupt him to ask if he's screaming on or off the record.

Anyway, just more drama to a season that's seen its share of it.

travzilla · Post by **travzilla** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 12:21 pm

Don't know much of Rossi's work prior to this year, but haven't really liked anything I've seen from him lately. Pretty much brings nothing of value to the table, his Hot Takes are unintentional comedy gold. (Pens final game of the season: "..Could be witnessing the final game of the Crosby-Malkin era...").

How is Kovacevic doing on his own? He has a strange boner for Winnipeg, so he's basically our sports radio go-to guy for anything Pittsburgh. I wonder how many subscribers you need to your App/Website to be profitable when all you have to do is crank out your own opinions over and over.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 12:35 pm

Yeah, that and tPB's post that GMJR is done after the season.

bapo! · Post by **bapo!** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 12:38 pm

travzilla wrote:How is Kovacevic doing on his own? He has a strange boner for Winnipeg, so he's basically our sports radio go-to guy for anything Pittsburgh. I wonder how many subscribers you need to your App/Website to be profitable when all you have to do is crank out your own opinions over and over.

That's great that Winnipeggers know Kovacevic.

He seems to be doing well. Enough subscribers to be profitable, at least. And he's still a big name in the market, even tho his stuff is behind a paywall. He has enough subscribers (and he posts enough on Twitter, I guess) that he still gets mentioned pretty regularly across various platforms.

(A Pirates blogger is implementing the same subscription plan. I'm looking forward to seeing how this plays out, but I can't see his site doing nearly as well as Kovacevic's.)

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 12:58 pm

rass wrote:15-ish games a season? Even if I wasn't slightly pneumonia-ish right now, I wouldn't feel like getting in a Crosby argument this morning. Just iso-cam any player for a game and let's see how "clean" they are.

Its not the cheapies, its the cheapies + whining. Constant whining. "Daaaaaaad! Ryan hit me back!"

rass wrote:Rosen is pretty good, though last night I could hear his pants stiffen everytime he mentioned Girardi in the third. He literally moaned in response to plays a couple of times, right?

If every Rangers reporter and commentator had to pick a player to J, it might be a clean sweep for Girardi. (He's also going to be a great test case for advanced stats going forward. He doesn't shoot and eats a ton of them, so his possession numbers suck, but he's doing it against top lines every night and top lines don't exactly hurt NYR at the rate they do other teams.)

rass wrote:All fandom aside, that was a very entertaining third period last night. Though not drinking might have helped my mood/enjoyment. Hmmm...

And no one outside of fans were paying any attention because all focus was on how loud and white Winnipeg was being.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:13 pm

You know who I've noticed does a lot of bitching at the refs, though in a NBA superstar staring down the ref or shaking his head when a call is made (or not made) that he doesn't agree with sort of way, so even though his facial hair is just as shitty and boyish as Sid's you probably wouldn't call it whining? Kreider.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:30 pm

Sure, bitching about the calls made against him, which makes him the same as every other NHL player. If he were whining that goalies were running him, then you've got a comp.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:38 pm

mister d wrote:Sure, bitching about the calls made against him, which makes him the same as every other NHL player. If he were whining that goalies were running him, then you've got a comp.

I'm pretty sure he was just remarking how embarrassed Henrik must have been for flopping like that, and maybe how he regretted that his slight contact put Henrik in that position. He's an empathetic guy.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:41 pm

"I didn't hip him in the head nearly as hard as Ryan hit me!" is exactly the sort of whining I'd expect from Crosby. Like to a T.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:52 pm

Burrows just got taken out of practice via stretcher and ambulance according to twitter.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:54 pm

yeah I just heard it on the radio, Linden to address media soon.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:56 pm

Wow, this sounds too serious for me to even voice the many mean, schadenfreudey things that come to mind...

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 2:15 pm

travzilla wrote:Don't know much of Rossi's work prior to this year, but haven't really liked anything I've seen from him lately. Pretty much brings nothing of value to the table, his Hot Takes are unintentional comedy gold. (Pens final game of the season: "..Could be witnessing the final game of the Crosby-Malkin era...").

How is Kovacevic doing on his own? He has a strange boner for Winnipeg, so he's basically our sports radio go-to guy for anything Pittsburgh. I wonder how many subscribers you need to your App/Website to be profitable when all you have to do is crank out your own opinions over and over.

He loves the shit out of Peg City.

He's alright but I don't read too much because I don't want to pay him $5 or $10 or whatever a month to see just why somebody in management is wrong or why the players don't have enough fire during a loss.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 3:03 pm

mister d wrote:Burrows just got taken out of practice via stretcher and ambulance according to twitter.

Headed to hospital yelling "I need help".

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 3:11 pm

Report now that Burrows has a broken rib.

Something in practice? No idea but overall that's good news.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 12:10 am

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **brian** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:51 am

Gunpowder wrote:
travzilla wrote:Don't know much of Rossi's work prior to this year, but haven't really liked anything I've seen from him lately. Pretty much brings nothing of value to the table, his Hot Takes are unintentional comedy gold. (Pens final game of the season: "..Could be witnessing the final game of the Crosby-Malkin era...").

How is Kovacevic doing on his own? He has a strange boner for Winnipeg, so he's basically our sports radio go-to guy for anything Pittsburgh. I wonder how many subscribers you need to your App/Website to be profitable when all you have to do is crank out your own opinions over and over.

He loves the shit out of Peg City.

He's alright but I don't read too much because I don't want to pay him $5 or $10 or whatever a month to see just why somebody in management is wrong or why the players don't have enough fire during a loss.

You can read that shit for free here from psunate.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 8:45 am

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 8:48 am

I fell asleep on the couch and woke up around 1:45 confused as fuck.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 8:59 am

Caps win for the first time in forever in that barn in OT. Series leveled at 2 apiece.

Typical 4 v 5 seed series, these guys are just very evenly matched up. I know the scores have been low -- really good goaltending from Holtby and Halak, and the just know how to take away each others strengths.

And, man, Backstrom... I've felt lucky to watch Ovechkin over the years, but I feel just as lucky to have been able to watch Backstrom.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 9:20 am

Rooting for you to go the full 7 games!