Always nice to meet a fellow mature hockey fan….no matter what team they follow.

It’s a shame that both of our clubs have some real d-bags amongst their fanbase. It truly makes you wonder how some of these people make it through life, considering they haven’t grown up and become adults at all.

All that being said, Id stop the hyperventilating if I was a Flyers fan. Id like to point to the 2008/2009 Pittsburgh Penguins who limped into the playoffs, only by getting hot the last few weeks of the season. That June, us Pens fans were celebrating a Cup. Moral of the story? Theres still alot of hockey to be played, and the Flyers are only three points out of the 8 seed.

as much as i don’t want the flyers to make the playoffs…3 points out from the 8th seed is seriously nothing. just get in and it goes without saying the old cliche that ‘anything can happen’

yeah thought so , shut up

But go on, tell me about how overrated and awful he is.

I like Pinot noir, it’s good.

If you guys did not know, bobhpiningforattention is a little bit older as implied through his numerous posts as I believe he has been alive longer an the Pens have been in existence. Bob is also the kind of guy that boasts about drinking wine. I am not sure why, but it is a proclamation he made in a prior post. Bob also is owner of multiple poodles, a real man’s man. It’s a shame this site does not offer posters an option to have an avatar. I would just love to them in matching sweaters. Now you must be asking, why am I telling you all of this?

You see Bobhpiningforattention is a bitter old Penguins’ fan who has endured lifetime of losing to the Flyers. The Flyers are 142-84-30 all time versus his beloved Pens. The Flyers are also 4-2 in postseason series against them. Since both teams have entered the league, the Flyers have finished with more points in the regular season 30 times, while the Pens have only finished ahead of the Flyers 11 times and 3 times they were even. In the playoffs the Flyers have advanced further than the Pens 28 times, while the Pens have advanced further 12 times and 4 times they were knocked out in the same round. The Pens also hold a 17-8 margin in missing the playoffs. Just so you know bobhpiningforattention, the larger number is not the better number in this instance.

So as you can see, in 44 years Bobhpiningforattention’s team has been more successful 11-12 times or approximately 25-27% of the time. Bobhpiningforattention’s team also admittedly lost games to draft their franchise’s greatest player Mario Lemeiux. So all of the successes beyond that point lack integrity to some degree. It almost makes you question the legitimacy of the first two cups. I have no qualms about the third one but if the franchise had played with respectability, Mario would have been a Devil and the Penguins would have relocated elsewhere leaving the third cup to a more deserving city. And all bobhpiningforattention would have left is wine and poodles. I believe that would make him a male “cat-lady.”