This Week in Hockey: Trolling?

Move over, Toronto, it’s our game

My hearty congratulations to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (eh, Pittsburgh has a newspaper? I didn’t know Yinzers could read), whose column in advance of Wednesday night’s game between the Penguins and the Toronto Maple Leafs was an epic masterpiece. From the headline “Move over, Toronto, it’s our game” to the one-sentence paragraphs: “Save it”; “Those of you who were there know what I’m talking about”; “Montreal?”; “To the very peak” or my very, very favorite, the characterization of the Maple Leafs as “four decades of failure and Phil Kessel”. This column was a graduate-level seminar in the dark art of trolling Canadians (because trolling Canadians, making fun of their monopoly money and their insistance on using maple syrup in everything is so damn fun, USA! USA!). I had to double-check to make sure I wasn’t just reading the latest entry in Andrew Sharp’s brilliant “Troll Tuesday” series on SBNation which by the way has an article on the old gunslinger (you know who I mean, and don’t tell me you don’t).