NEW YORK -- Stop this already.
Stop insulting everyone's intelligence. Stop attempting to prove whatever point's not being proven. Stop acting like rank amateurs rather than allegedly responsible stewards of the rest of Sidney Patrick Crosby's NHL career.
Which is to say, stop playing Brian Dumoulin and Jeff Carter.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Seriously, I've never seen anything like this in a lifetime of covering all three of Pittsburgh's teams, certainly not with the Penguins. Not to this extreme. But we've now reached the stage of this becoming an out-in-the-open joke for the whole hockey world to behold, game after game after game, where no one among Mike Sullivan, Ron Hextall or Brian Burke -- three experienced hockey men, the first of those ranking among the sharpest coaches/managers I've encountered in any sport -- will do a damned thing bout it.