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Was there an Aerosmith concert in Cole Harbour, NS in December, 1986? I'm thinking Mama Crosby might have been a groupie.

I live near Chicago and it's ALL OVER the TV, too. For the most part, the Chicago fans seems to be voicing their disappointment. Comments like "He's supposed to be the Face of the Blackhawks. Kids look up to him. He needs to grow up."

Over/under on the first "Hey Paddy, can you spare a dime....or two?" sign at an opposing rink? I'll take Game One, warmups, behind the Hawks' bench glass. Anyone ever notice that stupid players seem to congregate on Joel Quenneville coached teams?

63.8 million for 12 years to a 30 year old guy? Okaaaaay. Next year ought to be fun. I can't imagine them being able to keep Toews and Kane. They won't be able to pay them what other teams will be offering. Unless they think they can win a Cup in Chicago and take less to stay......buh-bye!

I don't even have to read the body of your post to know my answer to this. HELL to the NO. Pronger's not just dirty, he's also a douchebag and not the most intelligent person on the face of the earth. I accepted Hatcher and Bertuzzi, but never really warmed to them. And they never really worked out, anyway. But Pronger? No. Just no.

And using your logic (number of championships), it sounds like BOSTON has more of a claim on the "City of Champions" moniker than Pittsburgh does. Celtics, Patriots and Red Sox, and I believe that the Red Sox and Pats won the championship's in the same year, as well. Adding up the TOTAL championships in the Big Four sports, I think they're kicking your ass.

As a Packers fan, I was just reminded of what it felt like to see them win the Super Bowl, come back to the big game the next year as defending champs, and have Horseface Elway finally win a Super Bowl at my team's expense (and have to listen to the media fall all over him for the entire off season). The sight of him celebrating in slow motion and his freaking windmill diving touchdown still pisses me off to this day. It's going to be like that for me, again, except Horseface is going to be replaced with Pubic Beard. Is this Groundhog Day, or something?

I already posted on my Facebook that woofers will be deleted. They think I'm joking. I'm not. The worse is the daughter of one of my friends who two days ago couldn't name one person on the Pens named not named Sidney Crosby, now going on about "her Pens." And I deleted her "ha-ha" comment. I meant it when I said I wasn't kidding.

And I think you saw the long term effects of the beating that the Ducks gave us, tonight. Getting through the Hawks was okay. But a seven game Finals? Not so much. I hate them. Worse than Sid or Geno. I think the order goes Anaheim, Chicago, San Jose, Colorado, St. Louis and THEN someone from the other conference.

Oh no. Our arch rivals will always be someone else in the West. Right now, it is the Ducks. And I'm sure most Pittsburgh fans would consider Philadelphia as their's.

I just laughed for the first time since the game ended. Thanks for that, even though you didn't intend for it to be funny.

Not quite. Big difference. Pens fans though their own player deserved it over Hank last year. Some people here think Fluery deserved it over Malkin. Neither of them are Wings. If people were saying that one of the Wings should have won it (after losing the Cup), instead of Malkin, your comparison would make sense.

Same here. Disappointed, but not suicidal. Changing the channel to a movie as soon as the horn sounded, helped. I didn't see any celebrations, no Bettman, no handshake line, nothing. I don't even know who won the Conn Smythe (after tonight, it should be Flower, not Sid or Geno). I don't know if we played "half assed." It's game SEVEN. But, I think our stars (Nick, Dats, especially) were playing a lot more hurt than they were willing to let on. We looked worn out, not half assed.

I changed the channel as soon as the horn sounded, so I didn't see a thing. I actually prefer it that way, thanks.

Absolutely. The TV goes OFF before that Cup ever hits the ice. Sports Illustrated goes in the trash as soon as it's delivered and ESPN is not turned on until football season starts. The same thing would happen if the Ducks and Pronger ever win it, as well.

Yeah, I know. I fixed it. I was editing the same time you were posting. Could be worse. If Blago had been allowed to be on "I'm a Celebrity" instead of his wife, they'd be 10 times WORSE about shoving it down our throats.

Versus certainly had no problem promoting themselves in Pittsburgh. They practically broke their hands patting themselves on the back for providing the feed so that all the lawn squatters outside Mellon Arena could watch. It's called SELF PROMOTION. DUH, NBC. You mean an upstart cable sports channel has more common sense than you? That's rhetorical, by the way. It makes no sense. They have an instant "cut to" anytime the Wings score. This could be the final game, and they're missing out on crowd reaction shots from fans? Stupid. Way to cut off your own nose to spite your face. No one is watching that crappy NBA Final outside Los Angeles or Orlando, anyway. As soon as LeBron lost, so did a compelling reason to actually watch that crapfest.

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What I want to know is, has Malkin always been this much of a dick? When Ovechkin acted like a punk on the ice, Pens fans has a coronary, calling him all sorts of names, claiming he was cheap and a poor sport, etc. Malkin does the same things and he's wonderful, not to mention revered by the NHL. This is the second game that he's went after someone at the end of the game. Doesn't matter if they win or lose evidently. At least going after Cleary last night didn't get him a 2,5, and 10 that the NHL could bail him out of, though.

Wonder what the ratings for the All Star Farce will be in the State of Michigan? It started an hour and 40 minutes ago and I haven't even looked, once. You know, if it were anyone else but Nick Lidstrom, MAYBE this wouldn't sound like such a petty, vindictive ruling by a dickless little man with a Napoleon complex. But it's Nick Lidstrom. Like Keith Tkachuk said, the man is all class and can do whatever the f*** he wants. Even TRYING to say that he's behaving like a spoiled brat is laughable and makes any columnist who even TRIES to insinuate such a thing, a joke. I hope the Red Wings are so insulted by the double disrespect (the ballot stuffing AND the suspensions) that they play the rest of the season with a chip on their shoulders and kick everyone's ass. And then I want Ferret Face Bettman to have to march onto the ice at Joe Louis Arena to a cascade of boos and have to say the words, "Nicklas Lidstrom, come get the Stanley Cup.....AGAIN."

Well, knuckledragging apes don't stand upright, so they had to let him sit. After dropping and denting the Cup, Lebda is probably not allowed to be that close to it, anymore! One thing you can guarantee, Ozzie and Lidstrom are going to take some ribbing from their teammates after that performance.

Real winner: Hartigan.....two Cups in two years! I'd say that was pretty beneficial.

Which is why we should be glad there was no Game Seven, even if it meant winning the Cup in front of a home crowd. O'Halloran's crew would have been officiating Game Seven. NO thanks. Why Bill McCreary wasn't on either crew for the Finals is beyond me.

He was SERIOUSLY booed in 2002 in Detroit and had to plead, "I come bearing gifts," to the crowd to get them to STOP! The NBC annoucers sounded like they were at Sidney Crosby's funeral after the final horn sounded. The Red Wings were celebrating and they couldn't stop talking about how hard PITTSBURGH fought. Ruined my buzz.