Well @jibblescribbits.bsky.social i'll take 2OT with some deeply baffling calls on both sides but I was kinda hoping Minny would take the series lead.

And the goalies would have so much fun playing pong across the entire sheet of ice for two minutes yes I see your vision

I caught the phrase "frolicsome and arousing" and I think I'm good.

Have the goalies yeet it at each other across the rink

That. Sure is a thing I just skimmed (i could not force my brain to actually read it) with my own face eyes.

Afaict no one is actually playing the intended game and everyone is just armoring up massive pet armies instead. Definitely sounds like your kind of game.

To follow up further, the Battle of Pennsylvania is a legendary grudge match, going back decades, and these two rosters in particular do not like each other at all: still not even half of the PIMs from Boston-Buffalo yesterday.

I think the DNVR guys counted 66 puck drops, which is absolutely ridiculous.

Also the "not much sleep" wasn't anxiety; it was the schedulers deciding we need all-Pacific start times plus a 20-minute glass replacement delay plus TJ Luxmore being in love with the sound of his own whistle for the entirety of the first. Plus OT. It was almost midnight local when the game ended!

I want in on the hug they do with Val. Just once.

Worth it.

Happy birthday! 🎉

To follow up, the first period of Avs/Kings felt like there was a whistle every five minutes and they still only ended up with 20 combined minutes; Vegas/Utah had 28, either of which is less than the Bruins and Sabres on their own (47 each). The Atlantic REALLY FUCKING HATES EACH OTHER.

This includes me if anyone wanted to know where I stand (i giggled when i got the notification that i was on the list fwiw)

It's not abusing the report function; they're violating the rules by doing nothing but spamming people's replies with this garbage. By "in case it does anything" I meant I highly doubt bluesky is gonna ban 'em but there's always a chance.

And report 'em just in case it does anything

In case anyone still doubts that the entire Atlantic Division of the NHL hates each other's guts, both eastern games have 50 combined penalty minutes. That's 50 with a five and a zero.

As a High Plains denizen (Colorado/Wyoming) I am speaking my truth: chicken fried steak is bad and it should feel bad.

Both goalies were so good

I want it to go 7 games with stupid scores and multiple OTs

I don't enjoy a lot of postapocalyptic stuff for exactly the reasons you're talking about here, and multiple friends will attest that one of my favorite things to yell at people is "WE ARE A SOCIAL SPECIES WE SURVIVE TOGETHER" (the other is "DRINK A WATER" so)

One of the things I'm enjoying about After Inc. Revival (sort of a sequel to Plague Inc., where you play as the disease that wipes out mankind) is that the base unit of survival is a group to start with. You're the leader of a bunker of survivors and you work together to survive.

Also pancreatic cancer is still one of the most aggressively fatal cancers. I've lost three people to it, none of whom were even 60 yet.

I mean, the FBI has their own; I assume they just called down to one of the field teams and asked for a borrow

For anyone wondering what everyone is quoting because I haven't seen it posted here yet (credited to Redditor /u/reachling):

I just called the Pacific the Moon Moon of the NHL and I stand by that.

They're at least young and fun this year. Until we trade the middle infield for potato chips and some guy who was great a decade ago again

Rude. Accurate but rude.

When they won 4 in a row literally all of us oldtimers were like "just wait" and here we are again. 🫠

Don't worry Darth the Rockies still exist (i am a Rockies fan, for my sins (being born in Colorado in the mid 80s)).