Penguin immunity continues.

I don't understand the NHL anymore. At one point, with the Pittsburgh organization on life support, the league clearly was concerned and most likely helped Pittsburgh with the draft picks and lenient officiating.

Now, Detroit is the organization that is suffering, as their fan base can no longer afford to buy tickets. The Joe Louis arena is not sold out and in fact, Pittsburgh fans have been able to purchase Stanley Cup finals tickets. That is unbelievable that in a hockey mad area of the country like Michigan, there are even tickets available.

Pittsburgh fans were able to buy enough tickets that it was noticeable in the amount of noise that was generated whenever Pittsburgh scored. Crazy.

So, you would think that the league would realize this and throw their chips in behind Detroit. Well, you'd be wrong. You see, Bettman and the league put their chips in on the North American player who has had a so-so finals. Datsyuk, Malkin and Zetterberg have all out played what's his name.

Wait you say, this makes no sense. Well does the recent decision by the league to disregard hits to the head make sense? One must wonder if the decision was made by the leadership who all happen to be former players that may be suffering from their own personal head trauma, which has clouded their thinking?

The league has also strangely trotted out Bettman and Campbell for extremely awkward interviews where they try to defend their bizarre rulings. One must think that this is a play that they stole from the former Bush Admin's playbook. Just refute and state the position. No, Malkin shouldn't have been suspended. No, the Malkin elbow on Franzen wasn't intent to injure. No, the slashes targeting Datsyuk aren't an issue.

At the end of game 5 after the Penguins clearly lost their minds, there was a scrum by osgood. The camera focused on Osgood and the sound went mute. I know that the camera has been avoiding scrums in the past few years, but this was like whistling in the graveyard. Even the pro-Pittsburgh announcers had to be cut off because they were being critical of the Penguins and the officials' lack of enforcement.