League News: NHL Talk - (News n' Scores n' Stuff) | 2024-25 Summer Edition

[Midnight Judges]

You all are waaaaaay too obsessed with the Pens…

The best part of their demise is that they deserve ZERO attention as they decline….

Hey! Being a hater is fun! I'm going to enjoy every moment. haha

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

Caps vs Penguins and Skins vs Steelers this weekend.

Lets hope we double shit on Pitt

 

[Calicaps]

You all are waaaaaay too obsessed with the Pens…

The best part of their demise is that they deserve ZERO attention as they decline….

I will never not enjoy seeing them lose. But the petty in me is getting a lot more satisfaction watching Nashville's super team crash and burn. I don't really have anything against the Preds. I just was so bothered by the lack of respect the Caps FO got this past offseason and how that juxtaposed with all the ass-kissing for Barry.

 

[Kalopsia]

I will never not enjoy seeing them lose. But the petty in me is getting a lot more satisfaction watching Nashville's super team crash and burn. I don't really have anything against the Preds. I just was so bothered by the lack of respect the Caps FO got this past offseason and how that juxtaposed with all the ass-kissing for Barry.

We kinda called it back in July, didn't we? Is it too soon for a victory lap?

 

[Ridley Simon]

Most (but not all) of my animosity towards them evaporated when we won the Cup. Or maybe I’m just getting older and I don’t have the energy to devote to disliking other teams and priorities in life have shifted.

Mostly I think it’s cool that we had Sid and Ovi for two decades and both teams were apart of the NHL’s resurgence after the lockout season. As a fan of sports in general, I appreciate how rare it is that Sid and Ovi went to rival teams, surpassed the impossible expectations heaped on them, have been the faces of the league since 2005, and are still going strong. They’re like Manning vs Brady.

The league will be worse off when Ovi and Sid are gone, and if the Pens and Caps stink. We need talented teams to keep rivalries intense otherwise you get the watering down of rivalries past like with the Redskins/WFT/Commanders when they sucked for two decades.

I was with you all along — and then I remembered getting skewered by the Pens all throughout the 90’s, and I also remembered how arrogant their fan base has been for 35 some years now …..

And I felt it again. Anger.

“Fak the Pens”.

 

[Midnight Judges]

Indeed, Pens fans and Crosby fans have been running around claiming the Capitals sacrificed everything to get Ovechkin the goals record - as if when Ovechkin scores the team is doing him a favor. Meanwhile their team traded away 8 of its most recent 12 first round draft picks.

So yeah, they can eat the crow with a giant spoon as far as I'm concerned.

 

[AlexModvechkin8]

I was with you all along — and then I remembered getting skewered by the Pens all throughout the 90’s, and I also remembered how arrogant their fan base has been for 35 some years now …..

And I felt it again. Anger.

“Fak the Pens”.

What if I told you that 19 of the 27 guys on the Caps roster on the team website were born in 1995 or later, including five after 2000? The 90’s feels like five years ago to me but most of these dudes weren’t even born yet.