Pens

If it wasn't for the Philadelphia Flyers, I would currently be going nuts waiting for baseball season. The Eagles are awful and the Sixers in no way interest me. The Flyers, however, are currently in a clusterf- errrrr, logjam for the lead in the Atlantic division. MY favorite part is that they're enemies with most of the NHL. Usually it's just the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils, but the Pittsburgh Penguins have also long been a yellow and black pain in our asses, just not to that degree. No longer! Yay for rivalries! Last year the Penguins messed us up and beat us in all 8 meetings. The tables are turned this year and they don't like it. The Pens were whining that the Flyers kept playing through the whole game, scoring two more goals despite being up 6-2. I love this quote from Right Winger Mike Knuble:

"This is the NHL, you don't have to have mercy on teams, and they don't have to have mercy on you. . . . I don't know if it's payback, but any doubt you can get in a team's mind about their ability to win games against you and showing other teams that when you put the hammer down it's going to stay down."

I love rivalries. The best part is that it puts us Flyers fans in the position of hating the NHL's golden boy Sidney Crosby. What else could a Philly fan want?