"LOL Flyers"

-Sidney Crosby

Malkin has 25 lbs and 2 inches on Bergeron.
Semin gives up both weight and height to Staal.

Both russkies embarrassed their canuck counterparts tho.

Good thing in all this is Boston didn't even play their best game (although rask did). Pens have another gear, but so does Boston.

JUST WOW

lol stealer's!

Pitt fans gonna Pitt fan. Nut low.

It's incredible how people still say this kind of stuff on Twitter. You'd think that after 7 years of Twitter, people would learn that there are innanet vigilantes just looking to trainwreck fools like this guy.

He should do like me and keep his ol' Boston bombing jokes for private circles.

Haha, he just keeps going at it on Twitter. No remorse. What a classy individual.


But he should keep any "call 911" jokes public.

http://now.msn.com/jordan-kuruc-fire...s-bombed-again

Grasp for straws harder please. Watch the replay. Malkin tries to seperate Bergeron from the scrum and gets him in a headlock, taking his helmet off in the process. Malkin and Bergeron start shoving each other, Malkin throws a gloved punch, Bergeron returns with one of his own, and then they both drop the gloves and eventually fall to the ice. If that's worthy of an instigator then pretty much everything but a staged fight would qualify.

The only thing Malkin did that Bergeron didn't as well is take off his helmet initially. Hardly worthy of an extra minor in a playoff game.

If the NHL suspended Malkin after letting Scott Walker sucker punch and injure an unsuspecting Aaron Ward earlier in the playoffs that would have been the biggest farce in playoff history.

missed game 1. lol penguins really?

Sounds like Toews when he was losing his mind in the series vs the wings. He better man up quick or this is going to go bad for them.

take off your shiitsburg colored glasses.

Yes, because as we all know the NHL rulebook is completely black and white with no gray areas whatsoever.

Under your heartless euro definition and the NHL's strict written definition you could call an instigator on somebody after every single fight - just as I said before. You're going to have to try harder.

malkin should have gotten an instigator as he pretty much fulfilled all the criteria except one which i cannot know about but was probably present (verbal instigation or threats). that pretty much removes any gray area.

the visor is in actuality an ADDITIONAL two minutes. yes, refs often ignore instigation for practical reasons, but they should not and do not usually ignore it when the player piles an unsportsmanlike on top of it. you may disagree with it, but there is very good reason for that.

but please go ahead and call it my [sic] heartless euro definition, which has little to do with anything. i did not so much as reference any euro rules, applied euro standards. in fact, the player in question is a EURO!

Come on sylar are you serious?

No idea where you feel this is an instigator call. If it was the league would have to call hundreds of instigator penalties a year.

feel like the hawks-kings game could be how game 2 goes

bruins gonna 2-0

I don't care what the rulebook says, a ton more goes into what draws an instigator to an official than that. They don't operate under a checklist system. Under a strict interpretation of the rulebook we would see penalties every shift for charging, interference, hooking, holding, slashing, etc. NHL players are given leeway to varying degrees on these infractions and as fans we all have a pretty good understanding of what warrants a penalty and what does not. I've watched more NHL games than I can count, and I am telling you that what Malkin did is never considered an instigator, much less in a playoff game. Bergeron was a more than willing participant during the entire exchange and his retaliations to Malkin's antics quickly escalated it into to a fight. Even though Malkin probably was the aggressor to a greater degree than Bergeron, it's not hard to look at the fight and see that both parties were equally responsible.

I'd like to see some examples of comparable incidents that led to an instigator that I'm not aware of. I've got Gamecenter if the fight isn't already on youtube. I also don't buy that doing something after the fight breaks out which could be considered unsportsmanlike (and again, Bergeron more than returned the favor) then prompts the officials to slap on an instigator too.

I was actually calling you a heartless euro, because you would have to be to complain that Malkin didn't get an instigator there. Or just a Caps fan flinging sour grapes. On second thought, probably that.

Wow you are dense. Everyone knows if you call today's game perfectly you'd have 5 whistles per shift. Hundreds of cross checks never get called. That doesn't mean cross checking shouldn't ever be called. Hundreds of fights are instigated without an instigator being called. But it is called sometimes, and face protection was added to prevent THIS exact scenario.

on second thought, you are a Pitt fan ignores the rule book and retorts with personal attacks. serves me right for responding to you.

Feeling good about the B's chances again tonight. Pens are shook.

pens fans scurred