Pens game has gone insane.

i hate the pens. if it's pens boston i will have to root for boston.

Jeff Carter big pickup.

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Pens dirty hit on the Isalanders - put his face into the crossbar. fucking scum, i hate pitt so much!

It's a shame that NBC is going to stop doing broadcasts after this year. Albert, Olczyk, and Boucher is a very good broadcast team with a lot of chemistry. You can tell how much Olczyk disliked McGuire when comparing how involved Boucher is with the broadcast while Olczyk used to basically ignore McGuire. I've always like Boucher and he brings a lot to the telecast. And from the small amount I have seen of Babcock- he has been really good. When he analyzes the game he is sharp, fast, and has a presence that none of the other studio analysts have. Babcock and Sharp were excellent together a couple days ago. And I will say that the secondary broadcast team doing the Nashville/Carolina games are a tough listen. I know networks are falling over themselves hiring women for broadcast positions but that female analyst in those games does nothing for me. She seem very knowledgeable but she adds nothing other than a meat and potatoes analysis. A little bit of silliness and fun goes a long way.

NBC is the only fucking station that actually puts non-nfl product on antenna tv regularly. I have seen maybe 1 nba game on abc, some golf on cbs but not a single baseball game anywhere. ESPN is just going to absolutely bury the NHL behind their cable pay wall and its going to be a pain in the ass to watch. I have the league pass or whatever it is called so I can watch any game but its still nice (as I am doing now) to throw on NBC and have a game on the regular old antenna playing in the background.

Oh and fuck smashville. Those horse shit fans don't deserve even a single win in the playoffs and they got one last night. Take a stick and shove it up Keith Urban's ass....at least shove it up further than he likes it.

After watching a good amount of the playoff games I am not sad that the Hawks are at home. They would get absolutely thrashed by pretty much all of these teams. There have been a few dirty shenanigans by a few players like that idiot Kadri but as far as the good/clean physicality goes.....the hawks would get chewed up in no time. I enjoyed watching the Hawks this year but they look like they are built for a skills competition, not the playoffs. They have a lot of growing to do.