Devils/Pens Post-Game Reaction

You know, when this season started, if you’d told us that our favorite series with any opponent in the league would be the one with the Pens, we would never have believed you. But as it’s shaken out, if we could have had 82 Devils/Pens games like the ones they’ve played so far this year, [...]

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38 Things You Don’t Know About Tomorrow’s Game 7

A while back we published a shocking list of 38 things you don’t know about Sid Crosby. In order to drum up a bit more interest in this godforsaken Stanley Cup Finals, we decided to do some investigating and come up with a similarly shocking and similarly numbered list of things you don’t know about [...]

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Pens/Canes G1 Open Thread

Oh no, our East Coast bias is showing! Wings/Hawks got nothing but drunken babble, but Pens/Canes gets its own open thread. Because that’s how we roll here in the Eastern Time Zone.

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Around The Dial: Round 2 Game 2 Day 2

Here we go, Game 2 of the Official Series We Care About — Go Pens! Go Stars! We’ll be filling this with what little thoughts pop into our heads as we watch the games today and tonight. – This game has been a game of extremes: Extreme craptitude by Hossa, extreme awesomeness by Malkin and [...]

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Around The Dial: Round 2 Game 1 Day 2

– We talked a big game last night about caring about the match-up tonight — Penguins vs. Rangers and Stars vs. Sharks. Now’s the test of whether we can talk the talk. – Sid Crosby is usually so accommodating to fans, so can he please keep those of us who get these games in HD [...]

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Woolgathering With IPB

We’ve suffered through the Rangers/Penguins home-and-home these last two days, and here’s a look at what’s on our minds now. – Pierre McGuire is consistently the most annoying man in sports broadcasting. At one point during Sunday’s game on NBC there seemed to be some promotion where you could log on to some website after [...]

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Sometimes The Officials Get It Right

We are like every other hockey fan in that we spend a lot of time bitching that the officials never do anything right. We’re always ready to heap scorn and outrage on some hard-working referee after we get to review his every call in excruciating detail and from multiple angles. So we’d like to take [...]

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