Obviously you are incapable of reading; if you could, you would have seen my other comments. The Pens won, get over it and stop focusing on Malkin. I will leave it to others, more discerning than you, to look at all I said concerning the playoffs and a "sore loser" status.
And if you really do think that I'm more absurd than BO, than, you my friend, need look no further than the nearest mirror for absurdity. Remember, you did not qualify your statement to any specific item or topic, you just said "of the century" - so I did not "change the subject" - you left it wide open!
Malkin proved to you that he belongs in the NHL - so what? He hasn't to me. Maybe it's just that to you, starting fights after a game is over, or nearly over, when it can neither change nor help anything, is OK with you, like the 70's Flyers I mentioned earlier.
40 years, huh? Really? I remember watching Gordie Howe and Sid Abel and Frank Mahovlich play on a B&W TV and Hockey Night In Canada on channel 9 (Windsor station). I remember when the league was just 6 teams.
Than you should be able to recall how really classy players play hockey - they didn't need to fight, except to defend themselves when attacked - but maybe you were a Flyers fan back in the 70's.
I suggest (but doubt) you read all of my posts concerning the series before you spout off and continue sounding like the whackos posting to the NHL.COM forums.
I wasn't focusing on him -- you were. As to your other comments, I haven't looked at them and I really don't give a damn about them. I haven't even looked at the rest of the thread and don't really care to. I commented on one and only one thing that stoped me in my tracks when I read it. -- your comment in post #6.
I'm not sure Malkin even belongs in the NHL.
6 posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 12:21:36 PM by jeffc (They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, hey-hey, ho-ho!)
Malkin had the most points in the regular season and the most points in the playoffs. In three years in the league, he is averaging over 100 points per season and he's only 22 years old and still has a lot to learn. He's just getting started.
Now if you really think he does not belong in the NHL, all I can say is they really should come and take you away. That is about the dumbest thing I have heard anyone say -- even for the sour grapes types. (They usually blame the refs.)
Now you can just keep rattling on and digging a deeper hole, or just admit that was a pretty damn stupid thing to say in the heat of the moment.
I think the Wings are a team of the ages, but they just blew it for whatever reason in Game 7. That does not mean their opponents are somehow undeserving. The Pens are one hell of a team and young on top of that. I would not be surprised to see another Wings - Pens match-up in next years finals. They are each the best of their conferences from what I can see.
Whatever --- it was a hell of a series, and in fact, the entire NHL playoffs this year were the most competitive and exciting that I can recall.
Just great, exciting hockey all the way through. I loved it.