I agree with the Washington Capitals re: the Bäckström suspension. I think all Brendan Shanahan did was spin the Wheel of Justice and maybe think, “oh, I botched the first judgement I did on a star player, I’ll make up for it by botching another one in the other direction.” This BS makes me so furious I can’t think, and reinforces my decision to loathe all Boston sports teams with a passion usually reserved for enemies of the state. (An ex-boyfriend once told me he loved me when I started crying because of how morally repugnant the Red Sox and their fans are.)

Instead let’s focus on some positives. Holtby has been keeping things close. Alzner and Lucic might make things interesting tonight. Tim Thomas got his Libertarian on. Umm… a seagull pooped on Tyler Seguin? Mike Green was the Caps representative in Cosmo’s hottest hockey guys. And what about a video of CSN sportscaster Michael Jenkins doing karaoke to Bell Biv Devoe’s Poison? Meh. Wake me up when Joe B and Locker do You’re My Best Friend by Queen.

In other Caps news, the Baltimore Hockey Classic will be held on September 26 in Baltimore against the Columbus Blue Jackets. You think that’s exciting?
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It looks like a little bit of the Penguins-Flyers hullabaloo rubbed off on the Bruins and Capitals, who decided to get chippy at a few points in yesterday’s game. Poor ol’ Brendan Shanahan was too tired from all the justice for the Pennsylvania game that he hasn’t had a chance to hand down the judgements for our to-do. RMNB has some predictions up for what the suspensions will be, but it looks like the official call won’t come out until tomorrow.

Instead of making my own guess, I’m going to draw cards randomly from a stack and make inferences. Because fortune-telling worked so well last time! (In my defense, Brooks Laich and Alex Ovechkin got the assists on Semin’s goal.)

Actually, if I can digress: I might have been wrong about Chimera and Hendricks, but Jeff Schultz (with Wides) was pretty much directly responsible for the Paille goal. And Backstrom, uh, had quite an eventful game. And Karl Alzner, well…

Beard's looking fine!