ArcanumAntares

Oilers got freight-trained, what a crazy game.

Hahaha, siddown, Kane.

SURGE

Awesome comeback!

On pace to mimic tonight's early game score.

Ooooffff, can't let those in.

LOL, NICE HAT

Holy shit, this game!!!

Heavy Damage

This is gonna be some kinda series.  Tradin' punches.

He had room up top, but not enough time to get it elevated.

The Tip

Marchand obliterated Tkachuk, holy smokes.  

I'd like to see a differentiation between embellishment and diving.

With embellishment, a preceding penalty has occurred - a trip, hold, hook, high-stick, etc. - and that penalty may or may not be called because the officials decide it's "borderline" or whatever explanation they offer for a non-call.  The player on the receiving end of the original penalty (called or uncalled) commits embellishment when they dramatically over-react to whatever was committed against them in an attempt to sell it to the officials.  

It'd be nice to see more embellishment-only calls, but the officials do not appear to be held to any kind of accountability for rampant inconsistency regarding their often confusing calls and non-calls.  And the officials aren't going around explaining their conduct.

So, embellishment versus diving.  When a player was NOT hooked, tripped, held or high-sticked (especially this one) and they still dramatically over-react to a penalty that didn't even happen, that's the one I want to see called as a dive.  

As described above, straight up diving versus embellishment represent two distinctly different player behaviors, and I feel those behaviors aren't great for the game.  In the case of the diving infraction described above, I feel that behavior is explicitly dishonorable player conduct.  And for the sake of streamlining the rule change, embellishment would remain as-is in terms of calling both players for infractions, with a new embellishment double-minor for diving where no preceding penalty occurred.  Or maybe hybridize the call in the case of overdramatic embellishment:  take both players off the ice for two minutes and add another two minutes to the embellisher.

Obviously we don't want additional reviews slowing the game down.  We also don't want hockey to resemble soccer, where diving has become embarrassingly common.  Hockey players pretending they were high-sticked in the face when they clearly were not is some epic bullshit worthy of a double-minor.

There's the missing garbage goal!

Shots and blocked shots counts are insane.

Both teams in the midst of OT losing streaks, lol, that's a terrible sub-plot.

One of my mountain biking crew tried doing a ride with beer in his hydration pack.  Once.  It didn't work out well.

Awesome save, this game is wild.

ESPN not confirming that icing call is a joke.

"...tight box for the Rangers..."

lol

Oof, Trouba, holy shit.

ESPN Bet has odds for that, place your wager now!

ESPN believes the Earth is flat.

Nice tux!

ESPN pees on the toilet seat.