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Morning Skate: The playoffs are here and so is this terrifying NHL website cartoon
Not sure what we’re looking at.
Eric Bolte-USA TODAY Sports
Lace ‘em up. Time for the Morning Skate.
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NIGHTMARE FUEL
If you visit NHL.com today, you’ll notice a giant playoff graphic on their front page. And it probably terrified you.
Now, I’m fairly certain these are supposed to represent certain players on each playoff team. But I’m not sure. These require closer inspection.
This is the most unflattering depiction of Jamie Benn ever. He looks like he hasn’t slept in months. And the double-chin is egregious. For some reason it reminds me of the obese governor in Monkey Island 2 who had food fired into his mouth while he laid in bed. That’s not a good thing.
The Eastern Conference stands no chance against the soulless corpses of Corey Perry, Mikko Koivu and Patrick Kane.
“Hey, how do we make the league’s best, most likable player look like a guy who would steal your kid’s candy at a fair?”
“I’ve got an idea.”
Henrik Zetterberg just realized he forgot his wife’s birthday was last week.
The Sharks have resurrected a crazy prospector from the California gold rush to play hockey with a pickax and wrestle bears.
TONIGHT’S PLAYOFF FUN:
- Tampa Bay and Detroit kick off the playoffs. And our Detroit blog thinks the Red Wings are in awful shape.
- To be fair, the Lightning have plenty of obstacles and injuries to overcome themselves.
- On the flip side, the Penguins have plenty of reasons to be optimistic heading into Game 1 against the Rangers.
- New York's depth and youth will be tested in the first round.
- The Blackhawks face 10 big questions heading into their series with St. Louis.
- Blues fans are convinced their team is going to lose in the first round again.
- Henrik Lundqvist should be nominated for the Vezina Trophy.
- Penguins fans went to war with a columnist on Twitter.
- Winging It In Motown put together a cheat sheet for all of you bandwagoners out there.
- We predicted the Vezina Trophy nominees this year.
- The Senators fired their coaching staff.
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