You Have To Be Kidding
So, for the few of you who watched the first period of the Penguins v Flyers game tonight, you understand that the title of this post refers to what must be the worst period of hockey refereeing in the history of the NHL. Every penalty call in the first period wasn’t just a joke, but an absolute travesty. Just 24 hours after the league decides to not allow Detroit within 3ft of the goalie crease, it then allows Briere to crash into Fleury before putting the puck past him. This after Gonchar puts his arm out and makes contact with a Flyer - yep, that only happened another 25 times in the game without a call.
Anyway, it’s obvious after the two game 4’s that the league have a pretty strong agreement with NBC to show games this weekend, and as much as I love watching lots of hockey, they could have been a little more subtle about it. But then, that is the corruption and ineptitude otherwise known as Gary Bettman. And for that, he finally makes his way to my ‘Sidebar Of Hate’. Oh, and the SOH has now been updated to include photos. If anyone has an embarrassing photo of the French soccer team, please feel free to forward it along to me.
The loss did come at a time when the Pens had very little blog-power, with a number of new fans at the Eddie Izzard show, and it pretty much just left Namby to send the team to victory. Mmmhmmm. Well, game 5 is Sunday, and I’m sure that the Chicago contingency will forgo their graduation to cheer on the mighty ‘Guins. RIght?
No Problem, Eddie. Graduation should be over by 3 PM, so we will be done in time for at least half of the game.
Well, if you can race from graduation to the nearest bar, you could catch most of the game, as face-off will probably be 2:10pm or a little later. And bring the relatives along too - you could all fill a bar with screaming Pens fans, none of whom know anything about the Pens. How awesome would that be?