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Kid Eating Ice Cream At Pirates Game Is Living The Life
One small Pirates fan at Monday’s game was sitting in a stroller and attacking his ice cream with vigor. His use of a spoon isn’t the most efficient, but his enthusiasm is admirable....
Wales Fan Feels A Lot Of Feelings
Knowing that Wales just lost 2-1 to England thanks to a stoppage-time goal from Daniel Sturridge, you might assume that the cameras spotted this emotional Wales fan right after the killing blow was made. ...
They Threw A Parade For Phil Kessel
The Pittsburgh Penguins held their Stanley Cup parade today, but really, all I care about is what Phil Kessel did....
What Will Phil Kessel Do On His Day With The Stanley Cup?
It’s tough to put a finger on exactly what the knock on Phil Kessel in Toronto was; it seemed to morph to fit whatever the Leafs’ deficiency was that week. Sometimes it was that he wasn’t a winner, sometimes he had a bad attitude. He wasn’t in shape, he didn’t make his teammates better, he wasn’t mo...
The Penguins Get The Cup They Deserved
Way back at the start of the season—2015 feels like forever ago—the Penguins were mediocre, slumping, solidly midtable, unable to score. They had top-level talent, the knock went, but were mortally lacking in depth. Mike Sullivan was coaching the AHL’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins; Matt Murray was...
Watch <i>Hockey Night In Canada's </i>NHL Season-Ending Montage
One of the best moments in sports media every season is the Hockey Night in Canada season-ending montage—an event that takes at least a bit of the edge of sadness off about the season being, you know, over. While the video lacks the shine we saw back when it was produced by CBC, it’s still a must-wa...
Pittsburgh Penguins Win Stanley Cup
The Pittsburgh Penguins claimed their fourth Stanley Cup tonight with a 3-1 win in San Jose, led again by a defense that mostly kept the Sharks from generating meaningful opportunities. ...
Idiot On The Field Invades NBA Finals [UPDATE]
Click through for his political statement:...
Martin Jones Saved The Sharks
Here’s something I wasn’t sure we’d see in these Finals, and I definitely didn’t think we’d see after he gave back two goals just five minutes in: a Martin Jones game....
Pittsburgh Jinxes the Penguins, Rounds Up Couches So Hockey Fans Can't Burn Them
Five years ago, the Vancouver Canucks boned up a Game 7 at home and the city of Vancouver responded with a massive riot. The riot resulted in five million Canadian dollars of property damage and also a fantastic photo of a couple taking a break from burning stuff to make out in the street. The City ...
How To Order Delivery Without Feeling Like Shit, You Lazy Bum
Sometimes, after a long, soul-crushing day at work (or when you’re staring down an impossible hangover), the last thing you want to do is cook. You’d much rather fire up Seamless and order from your favorite local restaurant, where someone else will prepare the greasy food you think will make you fe...
Matt Murray Is The Man
One win away from a Stanley Cup, and because the Penguins are doing so many things so well, it’s become easy to underpraise the player who might’ve done more than anyone to get them here....
Hey, I Think The Sharks Are Boned
We’ve talked about the Penguins’ depth, constructed through signings and trades and able to carry the load on nights the top lines don’t have it. We’ve talked about one of those scoring lines, even before Phil Kessel emerged as a potential Conn Smythe candidate. We’ve done plenty of talking about Si...
Sidney Crosby Is The Anti-Steeler
It started as a joke here at Deadspin, when Drew Magary called the Penguins the Ice Steelers. Naturally, I decided that it actually was the perfect name for my favorite hockey team and proceeded to only ever refer to them by that, modifying it slightly to fit with traditional Pittsburgh-ese to “Ice ...
Joonas Donskoi OT Goal Wins Game 3 For Sharks, Gives Us A Series
For awhile there, it looked like Pittsburgh wasn’t going to lose another game; the Penguins had become a completely different team somewhere around the midway point of their Game 5 loss to Tampa Bay. Thankfully (for neutral hockey fans, at least) San Jose found a goal when it counted, courtesy a Fin...
Patriotic Idiot Delays Astros Game
Today’s A’s-Astros game in Houston came to a screeching, but patriotic, halt in the bottom of the fourth after a fan rushed the field bearing what we’re told was an American flag. U-S-A! U-S-A!...
Man Gives Amish Teens Yuengling, Yells "Rumspringa" As He Hits Their Horse-Drawn Buggy, Goes To Prison
Pennsylvania man Thomas Candler Felts was sentenced Tuesday in Lancaster County Court for an Aug. 30 incident in which the 25-year-old gave Amish teens some beer, showed them his gun, and yelled “Rumspringa” before he hit their horse-drawn buggy with his car....
Logan Couture Accuses Sidney Crosby Of "Cheating" On Faceoffs
So, here’s a subplot to watch as the Finals shift to San Jose. Sharks center Logan Couture on how Sidney Crosby has been so good on faceoffs through the first two games:...
Sidney Crosby's Called Play Worked To Perfection
The Penguins have been the clear better team in both Finals games, and they’re up two games to none. But it doesn’t always work that way; the sample size of a series is too small for puck justice to win out every time, and indeed, both games have been decided by one goal. Individual plays carry the ...
Nifty Little Conor Sheary Goal Gives Penguins 2-0 Finals Lead
The Penguins took a 2-1 overtime win tonight over the San Jose Sharks to hold serve at home and win both games in Pittsburgh. The first half of the game was a scoreless, tense affair that featured a photographer dropping their lens onto the ice and having it batted around like the puck for a second....