#i kinda liked fluke in the first two episodes but he sucks so bad. he's a coward. he'd betray anyone to save his own sorry skin

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dead friend forever ep4 fuck you fluke

fuck you fluke

"again"? does jin's shoulder fall out of place often? eds gang let's go

OMG TOP???

im seeing a lot of righteous rage against por in the tag and i'm sure i'll share that sentiment once i know a little more but damn, us dies real pretty

top has mostly just annoyed me this whole time but i admit he makes a really creepy ghost/zombie/possessed corpse

more yelling but at least there's a good reason. it's always so interesting to watch a friend group devolve, especially one as dysfunctional and deceitful as this. old wounds reopening and ghosts rising from the dead (apparently both literally and figuratively.) i always like this part

i swear to god fluke i hope you die next

I SWEAR TO GOD fluke.

what about jin and phee? has everyone forgotten about them?

oh hi non! baby boy

too invested in this ep to type much but it looks like next ep it's flashback time and we get to hear about non, who i am given to understand deserves to be protected at any cost and unfortunately isn't, so looking forward to that

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TBOBF ep 3 spoilers

You know, I did think we might see a lower quality episode this week based on how amazing last week’s was but I really didn’t think it would throw itself off a cliff without a parachute. That’s the fastest I’ve seen a show set itself on fire in a loooooong time. And with how short this series is (8 eps I think? And no continuation after, this is meant to lead into Mando s3) it’s going to be a STEEP climb back from this. If it can even manage that from here.

Some thoughts in no particular order:

W H Y did we fall back once again on shock factor mass murder. Why. This is preschool level bad and lazy writing and it makes absolutely no sense to do this immediately following such a strong episode featuring these people.

Boba’s lack of reaction to that tragedy also feels extremely weird. For a character they’ve developed to be more compassionate and free with his emotions, I expected a lot more visible pain at the loss of this tribe that literally adopted him as one of their own. No tears, no anguish, his facial expression didn’t even change. What the fuck?!

I know @chamomileteainabuttercup mentioned it in her review, but it feels really weird and bad that Boba and Fennec, two galaxy renowned and feared criminal professionals, are acting like interns on their first day of life. Where is the expertise? Where is the competence? I want to like that Boba is taking in people in need and giving them work, but damn he didn’t even interview this literal gang of street kids before bringing them home??? AND HOW DID THAT WOOKIE BREAK IN, MAKE IT TO BOBA’S ROOM, PROCEED TO ALMOST KILL HIM, AND ITS THESE KIDS WHO SHOW UP AT THE LAST MIN??? Not Fennec??? Who owes Boba a life debt?????????

The baby rancor was cute. I like that they carried over that they bond with their owners and make good loving pets. We see that keeper crying after Luke kills the previous rancor in the last OG trilogy movie. And I like that Boba immediately just wants to love on it and give it scritches and be concerned about it’s mental state. Kinda sucks that the rancor was the best written thing in this episode though.

It’s really jarring going from such a strong and well written episode to…this. I really hope this is a fluke. I truly do. I was really enjoying this show so far but today’s ep was SUCH a disappointing flop. I don’t know that there’s much they can do to fix it from here but they can at least try not to make it worse.

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Thoughts journal Ninjago season 13!! 🖤🖤 (4/4)

Here we are, at the end of just another season of Ninjago! And I've gotta say, until now it has been very good, I think I'm liking this season better than Prime Empire and Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu. I liked them too, but this one feels more complete and deep, also LILLY GOT A BACKSTORY HECK YEAH 😍😍

Prime Empire had one really great ending, so I'm very curious how this season will conclude! Spinjitzu burst? Some last minute plot twist? Cole and Vania confirmed...? 🙄

Here we go!!

THE DARKEST HOUR

So I'm guessing the guys aren't doing too good at the moment 😅

I know this is kind of a tense situation, but honestly Kai looking so confused at having to lead cracks me up 😂 "Do I have to say it? Is that what being in charge means?"

Lloyd: YOU

Jay: SHALL

Kai: NOT

Zane: BE GRANTED THE PERMISSION TO TRAVERSE BEYOND THIS POINT

I have no words, that was such an obvious reference in full Zane style so in character, I have tears. Beautiful 🤣🤣

Also they all look SO COOL 💚💙❤🤍

My ninja babies fighting together screaming NINJA-GOO!! Really this season feels like we're back in the old days, so cool! And they are so in sync, Kai lifting Lloyd up and Zane pushing others away and I LOVE THE FIGHTING ANIMATIONS 🤩

Poor Skull dude, he's trying to do his big bad guy monologue and he keeps getting interrupted 😂

It was cute that both tribes immediately refused to surrender, not sure if it was for pride or they actually care about their new ninja friends, but it was nice

Aahh, near death life experiences, the best way to elicit teamwork 👍 Nice scene, nice cute scene

Nnnnnyyyggg, Lloyd, that's the sacrifice look right there 😱 At least they just turned themselves in peacefully after reuniting the tribes... aaand of course he was lying, I hate that Skull dude 👿👿

THE ASCENT

Back to team Cole! Back to the Upply! 🖤 Quick guys, we're only three episodes left!! NEED TO GO BIG!!

Heeeeeyy, Wu back in business! I kinda missed him a bit taking control of the situation, it used to be him because he was the master. It really is a jump into the past this season! 🤩🤩

Sure let's go with the explosive cart, not like Cole and the other ninja haven't been piloting a falling apart rocket back to Earth before 🤷‍♀️

A Mech on rolleskates, why not? Does Cole even know how to go on those though? He was already out of the Tournament of Elements during Chen's Thunder Blade so I don't really know...

Lolz the monster was actually waiting staring at the wall, guess you don't get much fun in this mine 😅

COOL FIGHTING SEQUENCE COOL FIGHTING SEQUENCE COOL FIGHTING SEQUENCE 🖤🖤🖤

And a poor old couple of civilians traumatized. They need to be trained by the people of Ninjago City on how to deal with weird appearances 💪

I guess we're doing this 😅 Gonna be honest, this is the first very evident sweet look I see from these two. I like Vania, a lot, but another classic love interest? Uuuuhhh, Idk, Imma see the rest of the season and see what happens 🤷‍♀️

A baby dragon on a giant spider, one of my favorite things ever on one thing I fear... I'll let it pass just because Adam is a good boy 🕷🕷🕷

GO VANIA GO GIRL LET HIM KNOW WHO IS THE BOSS HERE!!! 💛💛💛

THE UPPLY STRIKES BACK!

I really like these DnD guys, they've grown on me, let's see what they have in store! 😁

Munce and Geckles under chains, ninja in a cage, the Skull dude has the control, we're back when we started... sucks to be a ninja sometimes 😅

Omg I'm loving that this dude is trying so hard to be menacing and he keeps getting ignored 😂😂 Aww cute, you think you're the first that wants to destroy the ninja? Such a special little snowflake 😘 Evil monologue, we've been going for 13 seasons now with various specials and a movie, we heard it already 🤷‍♀️

Also the reveal, and he's all "Your friend Cole is dead" and Lloyd "That's what they all say, buddy" 👌👌

Poor Cole just wants justice for his mom HELP EMOTIONAL AGAIN

I'm all for Cole's personal team, they should do missions together, like Jay's team in Skybound!... that technically never happened, BUT STILL COOL 🖤💙🖤💙

Oh boy oh boy oh boy got the swords, confrontation ready, BRING IT!! Ninja team is all in for this!! ❤💚💙🤍🌊

REVOLUTION!!!! 💪💪💪💪

Swords aren't usually Cole's weapon of choice... BUT DANG IT HE CAN SWING THEM, HOLY GARMADON!!! THIS IS THE FIGHTING SCENES I WANT!!! 😍😍

How is this the episode prior the finale? It already feels like the finale! What else is going to happen?

SON'S OF LILY

Oh with a title like this, it's a given that I will not survive. Oh boy, here goes, the FINALE!

Chaos, chaos, beautiful dragon of death and distraction, also gently reminder that Mino is also a very good boy 💕 Are the skeletons connected to the skull? Are they gonna stop reform when Cole defeats the Skull Sorcerer?

The swords are not actually magical? Huh, first weapon in this show that turns out to be a fluke, apart maybe the Dragon Armor of the Firstborne... that one stayed intact at least 😅

HERE COMES THE VALKIRIES!!! *classic related music plays*

THIS. FIGHTING. SCENES. ARE. SO. FREAKING. GOOD 😍 Also wow sensei, full kamikaze with a dragon? I guess the sacrifice gene really runs into that family 😅

COLE NO DON'T HURT ROCK BABY 😭

"Always." KIRBY STOP MAKING ME CRY WITH YOUR AMAZING VOICE ACTING SKILLS ALSO HOLY HOOLA GANG

THAT'S LIKE A SPINJITZU WITH THE TRUE POTENTIAL OMG HECK YEAH SHINE COLE SHINE!!! 🖤🖤🖤

A bit red, could mistake it for Kai's, but it's an orange earth lava burst so I understand

Cole: okay guys, done my part

Cole: wake me up when next season is out

LOOK AT VANIA BECOMING THE QUEEN WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL ATTIRE AND USING COLE'S MOTHER QUOTE BECAUSE SHE LEARNED SO MUCH FROM COLE AWWW 💛

Okay, since there weren't evident references to Nexo Knights this season, can I pretend Fungus shooting fireworks is one? Merlok used to do that almost at every season finale... IMMA PRETEND 🙃

She is so adorable, I really love her. Wished we've seen more of her bond with her father, it felt a little easy her giving up on him. Idk, Sky and Chen didn't have that much of a bond but she struggled a lot! But she is super cool and cute, I ADORE her 💕

This sounds like a pretty good experience for Lloyd who FINALLY spent a season without being scarred for life!!! He even met a princess who didn't plan his death!!! Montgomery things are getting better 💚

Well, that surprised me, I guess Cole and Vania like each other but not heavily? Just a very light mood, like they care a lot but no other step further. I'm very happy about this choice, you can see it as a couple if you want, but you can also say they are just good friends. Nice 👍

Oh no, Wu got his midlife crisis, SOMEBODY STOPS HIM 😱

Wherever the wind will take them okay, wherever the producers will decide to torture them 😗

Overall, great finale! 😁

FINAL THOUGHTS

I think I enjoyed Prime Empire's finale more than this one, but this season with all of its episodes was absolutely AMAZING 🖤

The Skull Sorcerer wasn't necessarily a bad villain, but the story kinda went into another direction in my opinion so his part wasn't fundamental. Which isn't a bad thing for me, it's actually new and exciting see the attention to the story instead of the villain, and I did enjoy how they made fun of how cliche he was being 😂

Vania was GREAT. Wished we had more time with her father to really establish what kind of bond they had, but overall I loved her, new best girl acquired 💛💛💛

FREAKING ROCK MOM!! FREAKING LILLY!! I'm so emotional just thinking about this family, omg, THIS is the content I want for Ninjago! Impactful, that makes sense, connected to the heart that makes you so much closer to a character! Finally the Rock family is getting more complex 🖤

I think this season really gave Cole justice, we got her mom's story, we've got him leading a team again, we've got him with a cool new power! 😍😍

For the other ninja it was okay, I really liked the shenanigans with the tribes and the cultures were really fun to explore. Was kinda like a side quest and for me didn't bring that much to the main story, but it was fun and it's fair, Cole had all the attention he deserved 👌

FIGHTING ANIMATION OMG HECK FREAKING YEAH 10/NINJA-GOOOO ❤💚💙🖤🤍🌊

Beautiful designs for the characters, in particular the Shintaro citizens, and also wonderful backgrounds and sceneries, that I thought were starting to lack but here seems much nicer to look at 🤩

What can I say? Ninjago still knows how to mess with my heart, and I'm so very happy about it. I think the so wanted Cole season was definitely worth it 🖤🖤🖤

Now, I heard voices about a possible Nya season... ABSOLUTELY YES, YES TO EVERYTHING, QUEEN GETTING HER OWN SEASON YES YES YES!!! 😍😍😍🌊🌊🌊 Besides that apparently Maya will come back, which is a dream coming true, if they give Nya the same attention they gave to Cole this season, I will be happy 😊

[thescentofwhiteroses]

I am terrible at designing outfits oh my fucking god someone please save me i mean ideally I’d be about to fall asleep but my brain is so fucking awake holyshit

(long ass rambling complaining under the cut)

(complaints about my current health issues, i.e. how because I was struggling to find things I could eat due to me recently developing a soy allergy, I lost weight, like 15 pounds.  In I think less than two months, and it seems like most of it was even more recently than that, so now I’m having issues with my medications, one of which makes me lose my appetite in the first place, AND IT FUCKING SUCKS) so, now that I have added that little summary -

I absolutely have to remember to call tomorrow about getting the dose on my ADD medicine lowered, because clearly the weight loss is not a fluke and I am sure weighing less is why my medicine is suddenly affecting me too much.  I feel like a couple of weeks (minus the few days when I ran out before I got a refill) is long enough to not be able to truly sleep and to keep getting fucking hyper focused on shit for hours on end, and I don’t care that I might have to just bump the dose back up in a month or so, I WANT TO FUCKING SLEEP even though right now my brain is like FUCK SLEEP, LETS DO STUFF It’s just crazy because prior to this I felt like the dose wasn’t high enough, but now it’s definitely too much and like, it’s not like I’m manic, because I don’t feel physically tired when I’m having even just a hypomanic episode, but I definitely feel fucking tired, my brain just won’t fucking calm the fuck down and let me sleep

there was one night a couple weeks ago where I laid in bed all fucking night and morning until I had to go to work, and I NEVER fell asleep nothing I tried worked. And I was tired, but I just never actually fell asleep which is precisely what happened a year and a few months back when I first switched to this medicine and was started off on way too high of a dose. like, it works really well for me, when the dose is right, but I need sleep and getting hyper focused on something for like, 8 hours straight, is a really long time, and makes me so worn out afterwards, but then I STILL CAN’T ACTUALLY SLEEP and like, I don’t really want to keep losing weight.  But I’m not sure how I’m going to be able to stop, because now that I have lost weight, and my medicine is affecting me too much, I have even LESS of an appetite, and unlike before when the lack of an appetite has gotten bad, I don’t have very many snack foods I can eat anymore, and sometimes I just get upset and frustrated when I want to snack on something and remember that I no longer can eat any of the things I’m craving.  so like, you really should never eat only one meal a day, unless like, idk you’re fasting for blood work or something I guess, but I often only eat once, and then I don’t even really drink anything else the rest of the day let alone snack. like I’m gunna fucking get more kidney stones because I’m not drinking enough, and my diet is not exactly balanced right now when it was just like, 5 pounds or so, I’ll admit I was pretty okay with it, overall I liked the things that changed, even though I was perfectly happy with how I looked before, but I do prefer the way I look when my face is less round, and that was one of the first places I noticed the weight loss, so I was cool with that part. but now my clothes aren’t fitting right, and I was very fond of my butt and now it’s smaller and therefore flatter, and I liked the amount of boobage that I had.  I was pretty much flat chested until after I graduated from high school, and once I finally had boobs, I liked them, they were still small but I had comfy bras that fit, and idk, I just liked them and now they’re so much smaller, and none of my bras are fitting right, and my shirts don’t fit the way I want them to, it’s so annoying like, if I lost some more weight it would be okay, I guess, I would still mostly be happy with how I look, but like... not very much more.  Like, I suppose 5 more pounds would probably not be too bad????? and I mean I probably wouldn’t hate it even if I lost another 10 pounds, but I also do not want to do that. If I was actually trying to lose weight that would be one thing, but I was overall really happy with how I looked when I was 15 pounds heavier, so I also would’ve been cool with not losing any weight. and I feel really bad when I complain, because I know there are people who wish they could lose weight, but this is not healthy, and also completely unintentional I mean, I know that I’d be able to readjust and get used to however I’d end up looking, I fortunately haven’t ever had a lot of body image issues.  The only time I was really unhappy was when I gained weight suddenly from my hormones getting fucked up, and I actually got back up to that same weight almost and was totally cool with how I looked that time, because I wasn’t having weird health problems along with it,  so like, if it could please stop happening that’d be great also I know the bmi is complete bullshit, but the weight it says I could get down to and still be considered healthy seems waaaaay too low to me.  if I was still a teenager, than yeah, ok maybe, but I’m not so wtf fortunately my psychiatrist usually listens to and believes me when I tell him my concerns, so I don’t think he’ll pull the “well you’re still at a healthy weight so you don’t need to worry yet” card I mean when I first started seeing him years ago and explained my history, how as a teenager they couldn’t find an ADD medicine that I didn’t adjust to too quickly and that I kept losing weight and had other side effects from all of the ones we tried, he was kinda hesitant about letting me try any of them again, so I’m pretty sure he’ll take this seriously and now it’s fucking 4 am and my brain still doesn’t want to even try to sleep EVEN THOUGH I AM TIRED, I CAN TELL I AM UGH

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Eulogy: Remembering the 2016-17 Columbus Blue Jackets

  (Ed. Note: As the Stanley Cup Playoffs continue, we’re bound to lose some friends along the journey. We’ve asked for these losers, gone but not forgotten, to be eulogized by the people who knew the teams best: The bloggers and fans who hated them the most. Here is Ryan Lambert of Puck Daddy, fondly recalling the 2016-17 Columbus Blue Jackets.)

By Ryan Lambert

(Subtitle: You’re not gonna believe this, folks, but I was right about the Columbus Blue Jackets all along)

Only two months and 13 days before Zach Werenski was born, on May 4, 1997, the 23rd episode of the eighth season of The Simpsons aired on the Fox broadcasting networks.

The episode was titled “Homer’s Enemy,” and was of course written by the genius John Swartzwelder. It told the story of new Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee Frank Grimes, who was new to Springfield and therefore had no idea how the town’s reality bent toward this one guy, Homer Simpson.

Nothing should go this guy’s way. He’s dumb. Dangerously so. He’s not particularly nice to anyone. And he seems to succeed constantly anyway. And Grimes seems to be the only person in town who sees that this is not how things should be. Things should not go Homer Simpson’s way, and yet they do, constantly.

In a just universe, people like Frank Grimes, who are smart and work hard and understand how things should be, are the ones who get ahead. But Homer Simpson not only falls ass-backwards into success, people love him for it.

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Frank Grimes tries to tell the world that what they’re revering is wrong, and that the success Homer Simpson enjoys is ridiculously and obviously ill-founded, and how do they not see it? Everyone just tells him to shut up.

Starting on Oct. 13, 2016, the NHL transformed itself into Springfield.

The Columbus Blue Jackets, a team nobody thought was going to be especially good this year, coached by a guy everyone knew for a fact was actively bad at his job, started winning a whole hell of a lot of games in short order.

Within six weeks, they were 11-5-4. Six additional weeks later, they’d won 16 games in a row and sat at 27-5-4.

Were they playing well? Of course they were. But the real question was, “Were they playing well enough to even come close to supporting a pace for more than 132 points?”

And the answer was, “Absolutely.”

The reaction among Columbus fans and not-even-particularly-credulous members of the hockey media resembled that of Springfield’s reaction to another Homer Simpson adventure that inevitably works out in his favor: “They clearly earned this.”

There were no two ways about that. Like a former astronaut chosen for his everyman qualities enjoying a lobster dinner with his family in their giant house, if you had the feeling a team with the 15th-ranked 5-on-5 expected-goals percentage in the league after playing a fairly soft schedule for 36 games hadn’t earned “first place in the league standings by a mile” you were absolutely wrong.

Why were the Blue Jackets — and their coach, whose backward approach to the game had just been worthy of widespread ridicule and scorn during September’s World Cup of Hockey — winning?

Tortorella, long reviled for being an unlikable, bad coach, had completely changed his approach, and with it, the team’s culture.

They had the third-highest shooting percentage in the league. And the second-highest save percentage. They were exceeding their expected-goals share by more than 12 percent. And it was pretty much because Tortorella trusted his team more. Morning skates? Who needs ’em!

This was a Kinder, Gentler Torts. He let the guys listen to whatever they wanted in the dressing room instead of forcing them to listen to “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love” on a loop, and he would only sometimes call it “crap.”

That extra effort to be nicer is what, in everyone’s opinion, resulted in a 103.5 PDO and the best power-play in the league.

It was running about 35 percent and generating exactly as many good looks as you might expect a man-advantage anchored by elite players like Nick Foligno to generate. So clearly, that’s why this team that drew the sixth-fewest penalties was blowing out every team it faced.

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Oh sure, shooting 20-plus percent isn’t in any way sustainable, not for a normal team. But folks, this was Kinder, Gentler John Tortorella we’re talking about!

You have to understand what being Kinder and Gentler meant for Tortorella’s charges. Instead of getting yelled at 24/7, they were only yelled at 23/6.5, and that’s the kind of thing every player loves. It’s also what puts you 22 games over .500. No question.

Because they were marginally above water in possession (but only because they destroyed bad teams and got pushed around by good ones), this was not — and in fact couldn’t be — another Avalanche or Flames or Panthers or Wild or Leafs situation. Not possible. Especially because Sergei Bobrovsky was likely to remain a .940 goalie forever.

The culture had changed. That’s what the Frank Grimeses of the world — who for sure were not model-level handsome and genius-level smart and nice — were missing. It was one thing to bring three or four really good young players onto what had previously been a team that picked second in the draft last season as a means of getting almost instantly better. It was entirely another to have your coach only call you worthless twice a week. Huge change, you have to admit.

Even the biggest skeptics had to agree by early January: The Columbus Blue Jackets had figured out shot quality! And that’s the kind of argument that always holds up in hockey.

Which is what made the team’s whiplash-inducing descent into mediocrity so, so mystifying. While the Blue Jackets started 27-5-4 in their first 36 games (and man, that’s almost 44 percent of the season!) they only went 23-19-3 the rest of the way.

The Frank Grimeses — who clearly just had an axe to grind against a team they clearly hated and thought about all the time, and absolutely had never seen a mediocre team start of white-hot then collapse in the back half — would have pointed out things like the Blue Jackets actually being a sub-50 percent corsi team against playoff clubs this year. And a sub-50 percent fenwick team. And a sub-50 percent SOG team. And a sub-50 percent scoring-chance team. And a sub-50 percent penalties drawn team. And a sub-50 percent expected-goals team.

But those people — who obviously hadn’t watched hundreds of NHL games a season thanks to Center Ice and hadn’t been doing so for about a decade — were obviously just being disagreeable. Probably to get clicks. Some would call them “haters.” And they’d be right to do it.

And certainly, the doubters — who aren’t remotely so kind and knowledgable once you get to know them and stop yelling at them on Twitter — would have made too a big deal about the time reports started to come out about the Blue Jackets asking Kinder, Gentler John Tortorella to stop screaming at them basically the second they stopped winning. And for sure, they would have been big jerks to point out that the team’s stated goals shifted from “win the Presidents’ Trophy” to “win in the first round” to “just have a good showing” to “enjoy the experience” to “listen to a song they like” in the space of a month.

Any time these Frank Grimeses — whose success rate in identifying fluke teams was probably mediocre in comparison with most people in the national hockey media — pointed out any of those things, they were just trying to rain on someone’s parade, and certainly it wasn’t their job to highlight trends in the league that don’t always get a lot of attention, or to express their opinion on the NHL writ large.

These big media jerks — who had certainly not seen Tortorella coach two separate franchises into the ground over the past several seasons — clearly didn’t understand just how cool the cool racing stripe this genius coach who had never been massively disappointing painted on the side of the building really was.

He was Kinder and Gentler. And no one had ever tried that approach paired with an old-fashioned system that led teams with mediocre rosters to keep winning despite getting outshot most nights. So, y’know, checkmate, Grimey.

That’s why, at the end of “Homer’s Enemy,” Frank Grimes is electrocuted. Because he was wrong about Homer Simpson and he just couldn’t deal with it. Drove him crazy.

And that’s also why all the not-good-looking naysayers who doubted John Tortorella should be sobbing today. They were wrong, despite the results of this series in which they were outscored 21-13. And it’s time they just accept it.

Oh sure, those never-played-the-game haters — who weren’t just “jealous,” obviously, no matter how often they’ve been right about this kind of thing in the past — will point out that the Blue Jackets lost in five games and, in point of fact, lost in five games to a team without its No. 1 defenseman, a second-line winger, a third-line winger and its No. 1 goalie. And sure, they’re going to rub it in by mentioning that this particular franchise still has just three playoff wins in its entire 16-season history.

But look at the big picture! John Tortorella was almost kinda nice for a while there.

Everyone thought this team would be near the bottom of the league and instead they won 50 games and, in fact, outplayed the Penguins in five games, four of which they lost.

Y’know whose fault it was? That goalie who was basically the only reason they didn’t completely fall apart in the second half in the first place. He may deserve the Vezina in a walk, but also he sucks.

And if the anti-Columbus creeps out there — who definitely weren’t right all along — think that doesn’t result in reliable 100-point seasons in perpetuity, honestly, I don’t know what game they’re even watching.

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Ryan Lambert is a Puck Daddy columnist. His email is here and his Twitter is here.

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