The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

It’s playoff time!  No, I’m not talking about the NBA which is a complete waste of everything useful.  (If you’re not sure how I feel here you go.)

We’re talking the NHL playoffs, a season within a season, the greatest championship tournament in any sport anywhere in the world.  You’re certainly entitled to disagree, but that makes you a terrible person.

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Around here it’s all about the Pittsburgh Penguins and Captain Crosby.  There’s also that Malkin guy too, frontrunner for the MVP.   The Pens are already up on the Philadelphia Flyers, hockey’s biggest band of pig-headed goons from the city of brotherly thugs. 

The Flyers led the league in penalties this year because that’s what they know.  You could rip a kid from seminary, throw him on the Flyers team, and he would be slashing at defenseless wrists in the first period.  That’s what they do.

So it was no surprise that after completely throttling Philly Wednesday, the goons spent the last few minutes trying to hurt dominant players.  The penalty box filled with orange jerseys before Daniel Carcillo slammed a fist and butt end of his stick into Max Talbot’s face with 7 seconds to go.  Classy move.  He’s not even as big a creep as cheapshot artist Scott Hartnell (pictured). 

But it starts with the organization and head coach, John Stevens, who was fined $10,000 for encouraging his scumbag skaters.  Carcillo is suspended for tonight’s game.