[Mase]

You're confusing effort and skills with character. I was thinking more of character in the moral sense. Cheating is always a sign of bad character. So is trying to use the end of your stick to plow someone in the head -- but missing the opposing player and, instead, hitting your own teammate in the face thereby forcing him out of game 4.

It also has to do with spearing in the crotch when someone dares to get physical with you because, after all, you are the greatest hockey player in all the world.

I'm a Lightning fan but that didn't end well so I am following the Caps this year because I used to live up there a long time ago. Way back then I learned that claiming the other guys are always the dirtbags while "your" guys are always the good guys never quite plays out......except with homers. The only exception is Marchand. He's is, and will always be, the supreme dirtbag.

Hope the Pens get to play Edmonton or Nashville in the finals. That would make the investment of time well worth it.

[Varda]

Your just making stuff up now. A sign of being a butt hurt fanboy. May I suggest you step way from sport if you can’t process what’s going on.

“Way back then I learned that claiming the other guys are always the dirtbags while “your” guys are always the good guys never quite plays out......except with homers”

Physician heal thyself.