Lighthouse Hockey - League of Hate and Envy: Venting at rivals to warm up for 2014-15Lighthouse Hockey: Try to fixate on something else.https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/50729/lhh-fav.png2014-09-21T18:10:04-04:00http://www.lighthousehockey.com/rss/stream/58844802014-09-21T18:10:04-04:002014-09-21T18:10:04-04:00League of Hate and Envy: Ottawa Senators
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<p>Kneel before Neil.</p> <p id="paragraph0"><i>Players <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/4/6106555/frans-and-other-lessers-has-returned">are skating</a>, and NHL training camps are within sniffing distance. So we are warming up our emotional engines to conjure all the irrational excitement, hatred and other strongly worded feelings that accompany an eight-month devotion to watching men making billions playing a game.</i></p>
<p id="paragraph1"><i>This is part of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120439/nhl-league-hate-and-envy">a quick game of considering our rivals</a>, with</i><i> love (er, envy), and hate.</i></p>
<h4>The Subject: The Ottawa Senators</h4>
<p><b>Hate:</b> Call them whatever you want, but most NHL tough guys/enforcers/pests/goons are a dime-a-dozen. They're always available on the waiver wire or via free agency and are surprisingly adept at "bleeding for" for whatever team is signing their checks at the current moment. Whether or not that job is worth paying someone to do is another argument for another time.</p>
<p>So when a dangerous and reckless player like Chris Neil manages to last 12 years with the same organization, it means management thinks he's doing something right. As you can see from the gratuitously long and NSFW video below, what Chris Neil does is lead with his elbows, start fights and scrums for no reason and basically just attack whoever is in front of him like a hungry dog let off his leash.</p>
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<p><b>Envy:</b> The Senators play to <a href="http://espn.go.com/nhl/attendance/_/sort/homePct" target="_blank">sparse crowds</a> in a <a href="http://the6thsens.com/2013-articles/the-ottawa-senators-have-an-attendance-problem.html" target="_blank">middle-of-nowhere arena</a>, while their <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/puck-daddy/blogger-hacked-reporting-senators-finances-dispute-eugene-melnyk-210553389.html" target="_blank">shady</a>, <a href="http://www.bonksmullet.com/2014/04/a-detailed-breakdown-of-questions-posed.html" target="_blank">penny-pinching owner</a> says and does <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/puck-daddy/eugene-melnyk-presents-matt-cooke-investigation-evidence-nhl-144415783--nhl.html" target="_blank">strange things</a> instead of paying their stars who invariably <a href="http://espn.go.com/dallas/nhl/story/_/id/11162196/dallas-stars-acquire-jason-spezza-five-player-trade-ottawa-senators" target="_blank">end up leaving</a> sometimes for <a href="http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=676657" target="_blank">nothing in return</a>.</p>
<p>And yet, no one ever wants to move them to Quebec or Seattle. Must be nice.</p>
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<p><b>Reader Picks</b></p>
<p id="paragraph11">And you? Which (current) Senator do you hate most, and which one do you think is an alright guy? Chances are, the player you're thinking of has already been traded, so please check the most up-to-date Ottawa roster before answering.</p>
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<p id="paragraph7" class="pgh-paragraph"><b>Previous <strike>Love</strike> Envy/Hate:</b></p>
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<li>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/20/6370405/toronto-maple-leafs-islanders-fans-hate-envy">Eneuf Leaves</a> to Shake a Tree</li>
<li>Le <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/18/6253159/montreal-canadiens-islanders-fans-hate-envy">Hate-itants</a>
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<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/17/6147605/buffalo-sabres-islanders-fans-hate-envy">blissfully optimistic Sabres</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/15/6146001/detroit-red-wings-islanders-fans-love-envy" target="_blank">Pizza Sauce Wings</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/14/6144925/tampa-bay-lightning-islanders-fans-hate-envy" target="_blank">Gudas Priests of Tampa</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/13/6143697/florida-panthers-islanders-fans-hate-envy" target="_blank">still growing Panthers</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/12/6134761/boston-bruins-isles-fan-hate-envy" target="_blank">Bahstahn Broons</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120421/new-jersey-devils-hate" target="_blank">Garden State Satanists</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/7/6119045/carolina-hurricanes-hate-or-envy" target="_blank">ex-Whalers</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/6/6115439/league-of-hate-and-envy-washington-capitals" target="_blank">Capitals</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/5/6110951/columbus-blue-jackets-hate" target="_blank">Cuddly CBJ</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/3/6102219/pittsburgh-penguins-hate-smiles-tears" target="_blank">Igloo [sic] Dwellers</a> </li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/2/6097397/hate-envy-philadelphia-flyers">The Flyers!!1</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/1/6095217/new-york-rangers-hate-envy">The Smurfs</a></li>
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https://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/21/6153189/ottawa-senators-islanders-fans-hate-envyDan Saraceni2014-09-20T18:30:20-04:002014-09-20T18:30:20-04:00League of Hate and Envy: Toronto Maple Leafs
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<figcaption>That Phaneuf is coming from inside the house! | Bruce Bennett</figcaption>
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<p>Phaneuf is eneuf!</p> <p class="pgh-paragraph has-dropcap" id="paragraph0"><i>NHL training camps have kicked off. In anticipation of the season, we have been warming up our emotional engines to conjure all the irrational excitement, hatred and other strongly worded feelings that accompany an eight-month devotion to watching men making billions playing a game. </i></p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph1"><i>This is part of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120439/nhl-league-hate-and-envy">a quick game of considering our rivals</a>, with</i><i> love (er, envy), and hate.</i></p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph"><b>Hate: </b><span>Dion Phaneuf</span> is probably a super nice guy. He looks like the kind of guy who tells lame jokes that you can't help but laugh at, who lets his friends' kids ride his back like a horse and who is always giving people a lift home no matter how far out of his way they're going.</p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph">On the ice, we know Phaneuf is a dangerous wild animal, a kind of Stay Puft Marshmallow Man on skates who will stop at nothing until you and your entire city is stomped into dust. He has no remorse, no insight and no off button.</p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph">Phaneuf has a history of trying to damage <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.lighthousehockey.com/">Islanders</a> going back to his Calgary days. He tagged <span>Kyle Okposo</span> in a <a target="_blank" href="http://youtu.be/Iql-lyihBkM">preseason game in 2009</a>. He tried to install <span>John Tavares</span>' head into <a target="_blank" href="http://youtu.be/IaJOMqMEmL0">the boards at the Air Canada Centre</a>. Even poor <span>Justin DiBenedetto</span> <a target="_blank" href="http://youtu.be/j-sA1kgCdks?t=40s">got smacked upside the head</a> a few years ago by the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/">Maple Leafs</a> captain.</p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph">He's one of the easiest players in the conference to hate and the thought of the Islanders playing against him fills me with a level of anger I don't have towards 99% of the rest of the league. I choose to assume he's a nice guy off the ice is because if he lives life like he plays hockey, he should be classified as a menace to society.</p>
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<p class="pgh-paragraph"><b>Envy: </b>Whenever I check out Sportsnet's or TSN's websites I'm reminded that, in Canada, sports broadcasting means hockey broadcasting.</p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph">Turning on any of the big U.S. sports outlets - ESPN, Fox Sports 1, WFAN in New York, even the NHL's own broadcast partner NBC - means hearing about college sports, baseball, basketball, football (if you're lucky), NASCAR, golf, mixed martial arts and probably a ton of gossipy pablum you don't care about. Anything but hockey.</p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph">This makes me very envious of my Canadian friends who get to hear NHL discussion all the time. Unfortunately, most of the hockey-focused shows are based in Toronto, which means they waste the majority of their time talking about the Leafs, who have done absolutely nothing to warrant that amount of discourse.</p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph">If the Leafs played in any other city, they'd be just another mediocre team with a decades long championship drought. They would be the Detroit Lions in the Super Bowl era, the Chicago White Sox pre-2005 or the Cubs post-the Woodrow Wilson administration.</p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph">Instead, they are the singular sun around which the entire NHL solar system revolves, which means an unending assault of hot garbage like <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs/2014/02/26/maple_leafs_phil_kessel_off_to_a_sluggish_start_in_first_practice_after_sochi_olympics.html">this</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://hottakery.com/steve-simmons-art-lack-self-awareness/">this</a> and<a target="_blank" href="http://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/2013/3/1/4042646/nazem-kadri-damien-cox-pretty-much-knows-zilch-about-developing-hockey-players"> this</a>. Anyone that follows interview transcriber <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/hope_smoke">@Hope_Smoke</a> on Twitter no doubt marvels at the daily, sometimes hourly insanity that helps twist every Leafs move into any literally justification the team and their enablers need.</p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph">I wish hockey had a more prominent place in the New York/New Jersey sports landscape. But if Toronto is any indication, maybe we're better off the way we are.</p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph7"><b>Reader Picks </b></p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph8">And you? Which (current) foliage do you hate most, and which one do you think is an alright guy?This has got to be easier than most of the other teams in this division.</p>
<p id="paragraph22" class="pgh-paragraph"><b>Previous <strike>Love</strike> Envy/Hate:</b></p>
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<li>Le <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/18/6253159/montreal-canadiens-islanders-fans-hate-envy">Hate-itants</a>
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<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/17/6147605/buffalo-sabres-islanders-fans-hate-envy">Suddenly Unhateable Sabres</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/15/6146001/detroit-red-wings-islanders-fans-love-envy" target="_blank">Pizza Sauce Wings</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/14/6144925/tampa-bay-lightning-islanders-fans-hate-envy" target="_blank">Gudas Priests of Tampa</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/13/6143697/florida-panthers-islanders-fans-hate-envy" target="_blank">still growing Panthers</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/12/6134761/boston-bruins-isles-fan-hate-envy" target="_blank">Bahstahn Broons</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120421/new-jersey-devils-hate" target="_blank">Garden State Satanists</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/7/6119045/carolina-hurricanes-hate-or-envy" target="_blank">ex-Whalers</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/6/6115439/league-of-hate-and-envy-washington-capitals" target="_blank">Capitals</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/5/6110951/columbus-blue-jackets-hate" target="_blank">Cuddly CBJ</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/3/6102219/pittsburgh-penguins-hate-smiles-tears" target="_blank">Igloo [sic] Dwellers</a> </li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/2/6097397/hate-envy-philadelphia-flyers">The Flyers!!1</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/1/6095217/new-york-rangers-hate-envy">The Smurfs</a></li>
</ul>
https://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/20/6370405/toronto-maple-leafs-islanders-fans-hate-envyDan Saraceni2014-09-18T11:45:02-04:002014-09-18T11:45:02-04:00League of Hate and Envy: Montreal Canadiens
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<figcaption>It looks like my forehead has been split open. | Jean-Yves Ahern-USA TODAY Sports</figcaption>
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<p>Flying Frenchpeople everywhere.</p> <p id="paragraph0"><i>Players <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/4/6106555/frans-and-other-lessers-has-returned" target="_blank">are skating</a>, and NHL training camps are within sniffing distance. So we are warming up our emotional engines to conjure all the irrational excitement, hatred and other strongly worded feelings that accompany an eight-month devotion to watching men making billions playing a game.</i></p>
<p id="paragraph1"><i>This is part of <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120439/nhl-league-hate-and-envy" target="_blank">a quick game of considering our rivals</a>, with</i><i> love (er, envy), and hate.</i></p>
<h4>The Subject: The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.habseyesontheprize.com/">Montreal Canadiens</a>
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<p><b>Hate: </b>As the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.lighthousehockey.com/">Islanders</a> play their final season at Nassau Coliseum, a less-remembered tradition could potentially come to an end.</p>
<p>Every year, thousands of Canadiens fans invade the Coliseum and cheer on their team against what is, ostensibly (and, sadly, officially) the home squad. The scores of the games and records don't matter because whenever the Habs do something positive, the applause is loud and forceful. Probably more so than it is in the Bell Centre, which is much larger and cavernous than the old Coliseum.</p>
<p>The phenomenon isn't exclusive to Long Island, as captured here by friend of the blog Laura at her blog, <a target="_blank" href="http://theactivestick.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/no-habs-no-until-about-half-an-hour-before-the-game/">The Active Stick</a>. That post is from 2010, when the Islanders marketing department tried to mobilize fans against the marauding Montreal hordes. I don't know if it worked that game, but I sure as hell know it hasn't worked since.</p>
<p>I hate that this happens, although it's worth nothing that Habs fans aren't the only ones to make the Coliseum a home away from home. I hate that years of shitty teams and long losing streaks and playoff free Springs has left tickets right there for the taking for anyone that wants them. I don't blame anyone for not wanting to watch a losing team. No team has given its fans more reasons to stay away than the Islanders.</p>
<p>It's a problem maybe half a dozen teams in the NHL even need to worry about. But I'm never more embarrassed than when a visiting team scores a goal at Nassau Coliseum and the roar is so loud you have to remind yourself where the game is happening.</p>
<p>When the Islanders set up shop at Barclays next season, I'm hoping this running gag comes to a end. If it takes exorbitant prices and the closest bus parking being in Bed Stuy, so be it.</p>
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<p><b>Envy:</b> "Hi. I'm <span>P.K. Subban</span>. You may remember me from such outfits as...</p>
<p><i><b>"Red Carpet Rouge</b></i></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/assets/5025514/Red_Carpet_Rouge.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Red_carpet_rouge_medium" class="photo" src="http://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/assets/5025514/Red_Carpet_Rouge_medium.jpg"></a> <br id="1410919361588"></p>
<p><i><b><br></b></i></p>
<p><i><b> </b></i></p>
<p><i><b>"Vegas Shark and Salmon</b></i></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/assets/5025522/Pink_n_Gray.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Pink_n_gray_medium" class="photo" src="http://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/assets/5025522/Pink_n_Gray_medium.jpg"></a> <br id="1410919416496"></p>
<p><i><b>"And 'Henrik, Who?' Honey and Blue."</b></i></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/assets/5025530/Norris_Maize_and_blue.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Norris_maize_and_blue_medium" class="photo" src="http://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/assets/5025530/Norris_Maize_and_blue_medium.jpg"></a> <br id="1410919511499"></p>
<p>Say what you want about his play, but the man knows how to dress.</p>
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<p><b>Reader Picks</b></p>
<p id="paragraph11">And you? Which (current) Canadien (and not Canadian) do you hate and which one do you think is an alright guy? And if you don't say <span>P.A. Parenteau</span>, you know what <a target="_blank" href="http://youtu.be/9DdwZmhmidE">he's going to ask you</a>.</p>
<p id="paragraph10" class="pgh-paragraph"><b>Previous <strike>Love</strike> Envy/Hate:</b></p>
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<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/17/6147605/buffalo-sabres-islanders-fans-hate-envy">Suddenly Unhateable Sabres</a>
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<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/15/6146001/detroit-red-wings-islanders-fans-love-envy" target="_blank">Pizza Sauce Wings</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/14/6144925/tampa-bay-lightning-islanders-fans-hate-envy" target="_blank">Gudas Priests of Tampa</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/13/6143697/florida-panthers-islanders-fans-hate-envy" target="_blank">still growing Panthers</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/12/6134761/boston-bruins-isles-fan-hate-envy" target="_blank">Bahstahn Broons</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120421/new-jersey-devils-hate" target="_blank">Garden State Satanists</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/7/6119045/carolina-hurricanes-hate-or-envy" target="_blank">ex-Whalers</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/6/6115439/league-of-hate-and-envy-washington-capitals" target="_blank">Capitals</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/5/6110951/columbus-blue-jackets-hate" target="_blank">Cuddly CBJ</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/3/6102219/pittsburgh-penguins-hate-smiles-tears" target="_blank">Igloo [sic] Dwellers</a> </li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/2/6097397/hate-envy-philadelphia-flyers">The Flyers!!1</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/1/6095217/new-york-rangers-hate-envy">The Smurfs</a></li>
</ul>
https://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/18/6253159/montreal-canadiens-islanders-fans-hate-envyDan Saraceni2014-09-17T12:16:34-04:002014-09-17T12:16:34-04:00League of Hate and Envy: Buffalo Sabres
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<figcaption>What was your name again? Forget it, I stopped caring. | Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports</figcaption>
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<p>Good luck with that.</p> <p id="paragraph0"><i>Players <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/4/6106555/frans-and-other-lessers-has-returned">are skating</a>, and NHL training camps are within sniffing distance. So we are warming up our emotional engines to conjure all the irrational excitement, hatred and other strongly worded feelings that accompany an eight-month devotion to watching men making billions playing a game. </i></p>
<p id="paragraph1"><i>This is part of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120439/nhl-league-hate-and-envy">a quick game of considering our rivals</a>, with</i><i> love (er, envy), and hate.</i></p>
<p><b>Hate:</b> No Steve Ott, No John Scott, No Patrick Kaleta (who is, as of now, still banished to Rochester). Who's left to hate? Hulking million-dollar man-child <span>Tyler Myers</span>? <span>Chris Stewart</span>, who might be the quietest two-time 100 PIM guy in the league? Seriously. With <a target="_blank" href="http://www.hockeyfights.com/players/2322/fightcard/reg2014">only six fights last season</a>, Stewart must have racked up a ton of tripping or interference calls to get into triple digits.</p>
<p><span>Marcus Foligno</span> always seems like he's in the middle of things when the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.lighthousehockey.com/">Islanders</a> and <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.diebytheblade.com/">Sabres</a> get together. We'll go with him, but polls are open for new candidates.</p>
<p><b>Envy:</b> Ah, the early days of a franchise rebuild. When undermotivated veterans are jettisoned, draft picks are hoarded, every kid looks like a superstar and the future is wide open. Cherish this time, Sabres fans. Before you know it, years will pass and that sleeper pick from Moose Jaw you saw as the next <span>Chris Drury</span> is working at your local Starbucks and talking about that one time he fought <span>Zenon Konopka</span> in preseason.</p>
<p>Joking aside, the Sabres might be set up better than any full rebuild in recent memory. Their prospect pool was already pretty flush with intriguing talent like <span>Zemgus Girgensons</span>, <span>Mikhail Grigorenko</span> and <span>Rasmus Ristolainen</span>, plus they picked <span>Sam Reinhart</span> this year and have as "good" as shot as anyone of winning this year's Connor McDavid sweepstakes.</p>
<p>If we go with hate/envy previews again, we might soon hate and envy how quickly Buffalo turned things around.</p>
<p><b>Reader Picks </b></p>
<p id="paragraph11">And you? Which (current) Sabre do you hate most, and which one do you think is an alright guy? I can think of at least one candidate that <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2013/10/27/5036582/no-pizza-for-spicoli-goodbye-to-matt-moulson-thomas-vanek-trade-buffalo-sabres">should still get some love</a> from the readership here.</p>
<p> </p>
<p id="paragraph7" class="pgh-paragraph"><b>Previous <strike>Love</strike> Envy/Hate:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/15/6146001/detroit-red-wings-islanders-fans-love-envy" target="_blank">Pizza Sauce Wings</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/14/6144925/tampa-bay-lightning-islanders-fans-hate-envy" target="_blank">Gudas Priests of Tampa</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/13/6143697/florida-panthers-islanders-fans-hate-envy" target="_blank">still growing Panthers</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/12/6134761/boston-bruins-isles-fan-hate-envy" target="_blank">Bahstahn Broons</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120421/new-jersey-devils-hate" target="_blank">Garden State Satanists</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/7/6119045/carolina-hurricanes-hate-or-envy" target="_blank">ex-Whalers</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/6/6115439/league-of-hate-and-envy-washington-capitals" target="_blank">Capitals</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/5/6110951/columbus-blue-jackets-hate" target="_blank">Cuddly CBJ</a> </li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/3/6102219/pittsburgh-penguins-hate-smiles-tears" target="_blank">Igloo [sic] Dwellers</a> </li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/2/6097397/hate-envy-philadelphia-flyers">The Flyers!!1</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/1/6095217/new-york-rangers-hate-envy">The Smurfs</a></li>
</ul>
https://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/17/6147605/buffalo-sabres-islanders-fans-hate-envyDan Saraceni2014-09-15T14:00:02-04:002014-09-15T14:00:02-04:00League of Hate and Envy: Detroit Red Wings
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<img alt="When trains collide" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/IimOJvz6usjWIaXp7EKAPPFnvuM=/0x350:3368x2595/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/38497672/452528641.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>When trains collide | Bruce Bennett</figcaption>
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<p>Headhunting in HockeyTown?</p> <p id="paragraph0"><i>Players <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/4/6106555/frans-and-other-lessers-has-returned">are skating</a>, and NHL training camps are within sniffing distance. So we are warming up our emotional engines to conjure all the irrational excitement, hatred and other strongly worded feelings that accompany an eight-month devotion to watching men making billions playing a game. </i></p>
<p id="paragraph1"><i>This is part of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120439/nhl-league-hate-and-envy">a quick game of considering our rivals</a>, with</i><i> love (er, envy), and hate.</i></p>
<h5>Object: The Red Wings</h5>
<p><b>Hate:</b> I'm pretty sure <span>Niklas Kronwall</span> is Swedish for "Human Wrecking Ball." Kronwall is known for putting the entire force of his body into devastating checks that often skirt the line between legal and rules changlingly illegal. Chances are if you're a <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.wingingitinmotown.com/">Red Wings</a> fan, Kronwall is an effective and misunderstood throwback to a time when men were men and Ted Lindsey was still Terrible. If you're not a Wings fan, Kronwall is like the shark in <i>Jaws</i> and you're hoping no one on your team <a target="_blank" href="http://youtu.be/ys4V-MSXnAM">turns into Robert Shaw</a>.</p>
<p>(The video is two years old, but not much has changed)</p>
<p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/fk3qIjz5EDM" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe></p>
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<p><b>Envy:</b> It's good to be the king or, in this case, the Little Caesar. Pizza King Mike Ilitch bought the Red Wings for about $65 in 1982 and is now one of the league's most august and influential owners. He's got so much pull that he not only guilt-tripped the NHL to moving his team, once the scourge of the Western Conference, to the East because of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index.ssf/2013/03/detroit_red_wings_officially_h.html">"travel and the fans,"</a> but he also got the <a target="_blank" href="http://deadspin.com/detroit-scam-city-how-the-red-wings-took-hockeytown-fo-1534228789">debt-ridden city of Detroit to foot the bill </a>for a new $450 million arena.</p>
<p>And remember, kids: when your team is winning, your staid, antiquated arena built in the 1970's is a mecca of sport. When the team is losing, that arena is a poisonous, uninhabitable garbage dump.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>Reader Picks </b></p>
<p id="paragraph11">And you? Which (current) wearer of the Winged Wheel do you hate and which one do you think is an alright guy? Will you zing Zetterberg or do you desire Datsyuk? Please show your work.</p>
<p> </p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph7"><b>Previous <strike>Love</strike> Envy/Hate:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/14/6144925/tampa-bay-lightning-islanders-fans-hate-envy">Gudas Priests of Tampa</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/13/6143697/florida-panthers-islanders-fans-hate-envy">still growing Panthers</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/12/6134761/boston-bruins-isles-fan-hate-envy">Bahstahn Broons</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120421/new-jersey-devils-hate">Garden State Satanists</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/7/6119045/carolina-hurricanes-hate-or-envy">ex-Whalers</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/6/6115439/league-of-hate-and-envy-washington-capitals">Capitals</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/5/6110951/columbus-blue-jackets-hate">Cuddly CBJ</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/3/6102219/pittsburgh-penguins-hate-smiles-tears">Igloo [sic] Dwellers</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/2/6097397/hate-envy-philadelphia-flyers" target="_blank">The Flyers!!1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/1/6095217/new-york-rangers-hate-envy" target="_blank">The Smurfs</a></li>
</ul>
https://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/15/6146001/detroit-red-wings-islanders-fans-love-envyDan Saraceni2014-09-14T12:00:02-04:002014-09-14T12:00:02-04:00League of Hate and Envy: Tampa Bay Lightning
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<img alt="Hahaha. Seriously guys, cut that out." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/ZmArbM4yb3RvpGqWqn-4lzfqEVA=/0x130:4000x2797/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/38484598/20140116_pjc_sv7_231.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>Hahaha. Seriously guys, cut that out. | Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports</figcaption>
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<p>Blasphemy! Hersey! Singular team names!</p> <p id="paragraph0"><i>Players <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/4/6106555/frans-and-other-lessers-has-returned">are skating</a>, and NHL training camps are within sniffing distance. So we are warming up our emotional engines to conjure all the irrational excitement, hatred and other strongly worded feelings that accompany an eight-month devotion to watching men making billions playing a game. </i></p>
<p id="paragraph1"><i>This is part of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120439/nhl-league-hate-and-envy">a quick game of considering our rivals</a>, with</i><i> love (er, envy), and hate.</i></p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>Hate:</b> Let us recount the tale of <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.rawcharge.com/">Lightning</a> defenseman and agent of evil Radko Gudas Iscariot:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><i><b>Gospel of Lighthouse 35: 3-2 (SO)</b></i></p>
<p>Gudas Agrees to Betray Jesus John Tavares</p>
<p>Then Satan entered Gudas, now called Iscariot, one of the team's top four defensive disciples. And Gudas went to the chief players and the officers of the Tampa guard and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus John Tavares. They were delighted and agreed to give him money - 30 pieces of silver - and a limited no-trade clause.<sup> </sup>He consented, and watched for an opportunity to hand Tavares over to them when no crowd was present. For Gudas Iscariot knew that, at an <a target="_blank" href="http://www.newsday.com/sports/columnists/arthur-staple/islanders-cautiously-defend-their-star-tavares-1.6655382">Islanders-Lighting game in December</a>, there is never a crowd present.</p>
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<p><a href="http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/assets/5010104/TavaraesGudas.gif" target="_blank"><img alt="Tavaraesgudas_medium" class="photo" src="http://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/assets/5010104/TavaraesGudas_medium.gif"></a></p>
<p><b>Envy:</b> The Lightning are good. Very good. A likely candidate to win the Eastern Conference good (provided goalie Ben Bishop is healthy and ready). I'm envious of any team that can stick it to the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.pensburgh.com/">Penguins</a>, <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/">Bruins</a> or <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.blueshirtbanter.com/">Rangers</a> on the road and make them think it was more than luck.</p>
<p> </p>
<h5>Reader Picks</h5>
<p id="paragraph11">And you? Which (current) naturally generated electrical charge do you hate most, and which one do you think is an alright guy? Maybe it's someone who's very good or very bad or very suntanned. Please show your work.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph7"><b>Previous <strike>Love</strike> Envy/Hate:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/13/6143697/florida-panthers-islanders-fans-hate-envy">still growing Panthers</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/12/6134761/boston-bruins-isles-fan-hate-envy">Bahstahn Broons</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120421/new-jersey-devils-hate">Garden State Satanists</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/7/6119045/carolina-hurricanes-hate-or-envy">ex-Whalers</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/6/6115439/league-of-hate-and-envy-washington-capitals">Capitals</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/5/6110951/columbus-blue-jackets-hate">Cuddly CBJ</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/3/6102219/pittsburgh-penguins-hate-smiles-tears">Igloo [sic] Dwellers</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/2/6097397/hate-envy-philadelphia-flyers" target="_blank">The Flyers!!1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/1/6095217/new-york-rangers-hate-envy" target="_blank">The Smurfs</a></li>
</ul>
https://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/14/6144925/tampa-bay-lightning-islanders-fans-hate-envyDan Saraceni2014-09-13T12:00:03-04:002014-09-13T12:00:03-04:00League of Hate & Envy: Florida Panthers
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<img alt="How am I gonna explain this one?" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/SOYVjfCfHDXd_wLuHnkLOExX7XY=/0x140:3542x2501/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/38468536/20140309_jla_bm1_201.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>How am I gonna explain this one? | Robert Mayer-USA TODAY Sports</figcaption>
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<p>Cat scratch leavers?</p> <p id="paragraph0"><i>Players <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/4/6106555/frans-and-other-lessers-has-returned">are skating</a>, and NHL training camps are within sniffing distance. So we are warming up our emotional engines to conjure all the irrational excitement, hatred and other strongly worded feelings that accompany an eight-month devotion to watching men making billions playing a game. </i></p>
<p id="paragraph1"><i>This is part of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120439/nhl-league-hate-and-envy">a quick game of considering our rivals</a>, with</i><i> love (er, envy), and hate.</i></p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>Hate: </b>Fellow members of the "Eternal Rebuild Club," the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.litterboxcats.com/">Panthers</a> appear to still be in the chrysalis stage of their development and not yet ready to shed their cocoon. Until they form an actual identity, there are few players to hate. At this point, the hope is that their trove of prospects all turn into viable NHLers. Then we can hate them.</p>
<p>In the meantime, it is easy to hate their financial and political concerns that <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.lighthousehockey.com/">Islanders</a> fans know all too well can derail and diminish a season before it has even begun. The Panthers' owners say the team <a target="_blank" href="http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2014/08/17/panthers-owner-uncertain-of-future-in-florida/">can't keep bleeding money</a> and they want to <a target="_blank" href="http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-06-16/news/fl-broward-florida-panthers-20140616_1_florida-panthers-county-officials-bbt-center">restructure their lease agreement</a> on the BB&T Center with Broward County. A consultant hired by the county will run the numbers and decide what makes sense for the people (<i>*cough*</i>). Meanwhile, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fprohockeytalk.nbcsports.com%2F2014%2F02%2F19%2Fpols-support-panthers-bailout-plan-co-owner-says-team-is-losing-100k-daily%2F&ei=aUAUVNSkEJHpoAS-goHwBg&usg=AFQjCNFgrULt7VfrHF3bEKugF4s9OYHXZQ&sig2=0eaCipT1fGmjLD6CXeqxQg&bvm=bv.75097201,d.cGU">the club loses $100,00 a day </a>and plays to sparse crowds while sexy new cities like Seattle, Quebec and Las Vegas get everyone playing Relocation Tetris.</p>
<p>Having gone through legal, real estate and other off-ice battles for many years with the Islanders (and, sometimes <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/8/19/6046277/bobby-nystrom-new-york-islanders-sale-brooklyn-wait/in/5322399">still going through them</a>), I hate seeing anyone else have to. The fate of your team should be up to management and the players, not lawyers, politicians and whoever else comes out of the woodwork. I hate that Panthers fans have to deal with it, but they have my sympathies.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>Envy: </b>It's easy to wish the Islanders had <span>Roberto Luongo</span> because he's still a starting NHL goalie. But Luongo's just as good at Twitter as he is in the crease, maybe better. His <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/strombone1/status/482597054703620096">gloriously bizarre</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/strombone1/status/462676151627169792">self-deprecating</a> 140-character sense of humor is <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/strombone1/status/506281867700871168">never disappointing</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/strombone1/status/464084059204091904">always hilarious</a>. I can only dream about the comedy gold that would flow if he were let loose on Long Island and, eventually, Brooklyn.</p>
<p>Hockey players in general are a buttoned-up and pretty boring group. When they let their personalities out, the Islanders can be fun dudes. Of all of the players on Twitter, <span>Michael Grabner</span> is the only one who lets his hair down every once in a while.</p>
<p>No current NHL player brings the funny like @Strombone1. I don't know if Luongo was always like that or the fishbowl of Vancouver made his mind snap. However it happened, I'm glad it did.</p>
<p>Counterpoint: Luongo's contract <a target="_blank" href="http://vansunsportsblogs.com/2013/04/03/my-contract-sucks-roberto-luongo-does-not-get-traded-at-the-deadline/">is not enviable</a>.</p>
<p> </p>
<h5>Reader Picks</h5>
<p id="paragraph11">And you? Which (current) Panther do you hate most, and which one do you think is an alright guy? I'm gonna go ahead and guess there are more of the latter than the former. Please show your work.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph7"><b>Previous <strike>Love</strike> Envy/Hate:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/12/6134761/boston-bruins-isles-fan-hate-envy">Bahstahn Broons</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120421/new-jersey-devils-hate">Garden State Satanists</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/7/6119045/carolina-hurricanes-hate-or-envy">ex-Whalers</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/6/6115439/league-of-hate-and-envy-washington-capitals">Capitals</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/5/6110951/columbus-blue-jackets-hate">Cuddly CBJ</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/3/6102219/pittsburgh-penguins-hate-smiles-tears">Igloo [sic] Dwellers</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/2/6097397/hate-envy-philadelphia-flyers" target="_blank">The Flyers!!1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/1/6095217/new-york-rangers-hate-envy" target="_blank">The Smurfs</a></li>
</ul>
https://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/13/6143697/florida-panthers-islanders-fans-hate-envyDan Saraceni2014-09-12T12:46:39-04:002014-09-12T12:46:39-04:00League of Hate & Envy: Bahstahn Broons
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<img alt=""You're all worthless and weak."" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/WZJfpkaUpssgHDYpGYy77UH1GnY=/0x0:4000x2667/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/38356616/20140121_mje_ae5_1126.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>"You're all worthless and weak." | Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports</figcaption>
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<p>Big. Bad.</p> <p id="paragraph0"><i>Players <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/4/6106555/frans-and-other-lessers-has-returned">are skating</a>, and NHL training camps are within sniffing distance. So we are warming up our emotional engines to conjure all the irrational excitement, hatred and other strongly worded feelings that accompany an eight-month devotion to watching men making billions playing a game. </i></p>
<p id="paragraph1"><i>This is part of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120439/nhl-league-hate-and-envy">a quick game of considering our rivals</a>, with</i><i> love (er, envy), and hate.</i></p>
<p><b>Hate:</b> <span>Milan Lucic</span> is an ideal power forward, and <a target="_blank" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/puck-daddy/milan-lucic-to-dale-weise-during-handshakes---i-m-going-to--expletive--kill-you-next-year-041130720.html">also a tool</a>. He is also the type of one-of-a-kind mythical unicorn that <a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.edmontonjournal.com/2012/07/27/the-edmonton-oilers-long-running-search-for-milan-lucic/">teams turn themselves inside out</a> trying to replicate. Lucic Lust is what causes teams to draft every hulking, mouthbreathing goon from here to Medicine Hat hoping he'll blossom into a 30-goal top liner for a Cup winner. Much more often than not, this plan fails.</p>
<p>Other candidates include <span>Zdeno Chara</span>, the fearsome and fantastic former Islander, who you perhaps begrudge for the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jimZ1tSdPY0">Pacioretty incident</a> or his dramatic dive at the brutal hands of noted headhunter Frans Nielsen. Even more easy to hate is <span>Brad Marchand</span>, who Dom called a, "Grade A Weasel." I'm not going to argue that certification.</p>
<p>The judges will also accept Bruins <a target="_blank" href="http://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2014/8/14/5997223/how-shawn-thornton-may-have-ended-marc-savards-career">cheerleader/apologist</a> Joe Haggerty.</p>
<p><b>Love: </b>One of the most fun things for sports fans to monitor is a good team that has had all of its well-paid chickens come home to roost. No one outside of <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.defendingbigd.com/">Dallas Stars</a> fans had heard of <span>Reilly Smith</span> when he came over in (what at the time was) the <span>Tyler Seguin</span> for Loui Ericsson trade. After popping 20 goals last season, Smith is an RFA the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/">Bruins</a> suddenly need to sign for their future. Defenseman Torey Krug is also awaiting a new contract.</p>
<p>Which means someone - Johnny Boychuck, Marchand, maybe Chris "$3 million a year for some reason" Kelly - will be jettisoned<a target="_blank" href="http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2014/09/10/boychuk-doesnt-want-to-be-traded-but-has-no-control-over-the-matter/"> whether they like it or not</a>. Popcorn, please.</p>
<p><b>Envy: </b>Yeah, paying each their millions is tricky. But having those guys during two runs to the Final and a Cup was probably a lot of fun.</p>
<p> </p>
<h5>Reader Picks</h5>
<p id="paragraph11">And you? Which (current) Broon do you hate most, and which one do you think is an alright guy but refuse to talk to your Yankees fan friends about because any mention of the word "Boston" immediately sends them into a rage like a hungry howler monkey that just escaped from the Bronx Zoo? Please show your work.</p>
<p> </p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph7"><b>Previous <strike>Love</strike> Envy/Hate:</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/8/6120421/new-jersey-devils-hate">Garden State Satanists</a></li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/7/6119045/carolina-hurricanes-hate-or-envy">ex-Whalers</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/6/6115439/league-of-hate-and-envy-washington-capitals">Capitals</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/5/6110951/columbus-blue-jackets-hate">Cuddly CBJ</a> </li>
<li>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/3/6102219/pittsburgh-penguins-hate-smiles-tears">Igloo [sic] Dwellers</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/2/6097397/hate-envy-philadelphia-flyers" target="_blank">The Flyers!!1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/1/6095217/new-york-rangers-hate-envy" target="_blank">The Smurfs</a></li>
</ul>
https://www.lighthousehockey.com/2014/9/12/6134761/boston-bruins-isles-fan-hate-envyDan Saraceni