Stupid NHL.com Articles

With the Penguins fresh off their sweep of Carolina to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals for the second consecutive year, the Philadelphia Flyers are still crying.

Honestly, we are three rounds past that series and the NHL is still publishing these kinds of stories? The Flyers still feel like they outplayed the Pens! Even though they got bounced at home after six games. Flyers captain Mike Richards is the latest to speak up about how much it hurts...

"Last year, give them full credit, they beat us and dominated us in a lot of parts of the game," Richards said. "I would never make excuses and this year they beat us and they're having a lot of success, but we thought we had a lot of success against them, outplayed them and outshot them, but we just couldn't beat Fleury. They had great goaltending and they're an opportunistic team. They capitalized on their chances.

"In playoffs, all the teams are so close and you need a couple of bounces to have success. Even though they have a great team, they got a couple of bounces and we didn't. It's not an excuse, though."

Let me summarize his comments, "WAAAAAAAAAHHHHH." Anytime you say this isn't an excuse and then use the word excuses twice, it's an excuse. Sure, there are a couple of bounces that go either way in every series and every game, I agree with that. But it's not like the Flyers lost on a last-second shot in Game 7 in overtime. They got beat on home ice in only six games for the second straight season. Get over it, Mike. Get over it, Philly. Move on—break out the irons and set up the tee times cause nothing's going to change. And NHL, please stop publishing these "oh whoa is me" loser stories.