Will No One Rid Me of This Meddlesome Priest?

I was born in Pittsburgh and have remained a Pittsburgh sports fan all my life, even though I moved away when I was four years old. So this week I am frustrated that yet another hockey team defeated the Penguins in a playoff series after their coach used coded language to ask his team to injury a Penguins player.

In the past it has been Barry Trotz with the Washington Capitals. This year it was Gerard Gallant with the New York Rangers. But it's the same story: a coach down in a series against the Penguins gives public comments about "getting tough" or something and in the next game one of his players concusses a Penguin.

Funny how they never take "getting tough" to mean winning more faceoffs or playing more shifts late in the game. It's almost like "getting tough" doesn't mean getting tough, it means "injure someone."