Getty ImagesLeading up to Wednesday's Game 1, Puck Daddy is previewing every facet of the Stanley Cup Final between the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins — on the ice and off the ice.

The movie “P.C.U.”, which was released back when Jeremy Piven had his own hair, gave the world the Caine-Hackman Theory, which stated that “no matter what time it is, 24 hours a day, you can find a Michael Caine or Gene Hackman movie playing on TV.”

In discussing the defensemen for Boston Bruins and the Chicago Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup Final, we’d like to offer the following offshoot of that theory: “No matter what time it is, 24 hours a day, Zdeno Chara is probably eating up ice time.”

Chara is averaging 29:21 per game for the Bruins, a total that includes five overtime games including that double-OT classic against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 3 of the conference final. It’s over five minutes more than the second-highest ice time leader for the Bruins in Dennis Seidenberg (24:10) and higher than Chara’s average when Boston won the Cup in 2011 (27:39).

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Does Zdeno Chara automatically give the Bruins the nod for best defense corps in the 2013 Stanley Cup Final?

(Ed. Note: As the Stanley Cup Playoffs continue, we're bound to lose some friends along the journey. We've asked for these losers, gone but not forgotten, to be eulogized by the people who knew the teams best: The bloggers who hated them the most. Here is B.D. Gallof, New York Islanders blogger, fondly recalling the 2012-13 Pittsburgh Penguins. Again, this was not written by us. Also: This is a roast and you will be offended by it, so don't take it so seriously.)

By B.D. Gallof

"I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it." - might or might not have been Zdeno Chara

Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you to the annual Penguins Eulogy. If someone who is still mourning the Bruins sweep happens to miss this, no worries. I can pretty much guarantee there will be one this time next season.

So, kind folks, please have a seat. You will see clearly, there are lots of them. The bandwagon emptied quite a bit after the first two loses at home The rest seemed to mutter their way off that plank in a grim stupor once Gregory Campbell hobbled himself right into the hearts of NHL fans.

You have to wonder if Sidney was taking notes.

Speaking of which…. let's just dive right in, shall we?

Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today to eulogize the light of the NHL’s life, the Pittsburgh Penguins. The cries, tweets and posts of fans’ disbelief on how this team could not only fail, but fail so badly versus Boston, border on hilarity.

Let’s be honest here… it is likely the Penguins bandwagon is about the only thing that has ridden through most of these hillbilly fans’ trailer park. What else do you do in Western Pennsylvania… be an Edmonton Oilers fan?

Getty ImagesRoman Josi signed a new deal with the Nashville Predators on Monday.

Granted, it’s for $70 million and six years less than what the last guy who played with Shea Weber received in his last contract. New CBA, man ...

From the Preds:

Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that the club has signed defenseman Roman Josi to a seven-year, $28 million contract. He will make $2.5 million in 2013-14, $3 million in 2014-15, $4 million in 2015-16, $4.25 million in 2016-17, $5 million in 2017-18, $5.25 million in 2018-19 and $4 million in 2019-20.

“Re-signing Roman was a top priority as we look to regroup heading into the 2013-14 season,” Poile said. “Roman has proven, with his growth and success here in Nashville and on the international stage, that he is one of the best young defensemen in the NHL. Roman’s skating ability and instincts have allowed him to play in all key situations. With today’s signing, we have our top defensive pairing locked

The NHL has made a mess out of its postseason awards thanks to the lockout. There’s no Las Vegas extravaganza (hence, no Nickelback), as the awards will instead be handed out on two television specials on Friday and Saturday night.

One imagines every nominee will not be present at this awards presentation, which will likely have the pomp and circumstance of the draft lottery selection. The winner, however, might be there or appear via remote feed to give a pithy acceptance speech for their half-an-award. (#asterisk)

Hence, one assumes leaks will happen leading up the NHL Awards being announced.

Hence, Nick Kypreos of Sportsnet has learned that P.K. Subban of the Montreal Canadiens has bested Kris Letang and Ryan Suter to win the 2012-13 Norris Trophy at the NHL’s top defenseman.

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Getty ImagesPittsburgh Penguins Head Coach Dan Bylsma has a Costco-sized container of goodwill stored up, collected over the last few years from media and fans.

While many of his peers are inarticulate oafs, Bylsma is a personable and intelligent interview. He’s seen as being in control of his team but not in a tyrannical way – hired as the anti-Michel Therrien in 2009, this persona was reinforced by the favorable editing on “HBO 24/7” two years ago. His journey from being a interim coach to a Stanley Cup and Jack Adams winner is still a hockey fable many revisit.

He’s gotten results, too: 183 wins in 293 regular-season games, many of them played without both Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin in the lineup, as well as a dozen other significant injuries that have befallen this team. Bylsma is the rare coach who gets respect for both leading a frontrunner – the Penguins have not finished below second place in the Atlantic under his watch – and coaching an "underdog" when his team is decimated by injuries (see: MacLean, Paul).

Where he hasn’t gotten results: When it counts the most.

Since the Penguins captured the Cup in 2009, Bylsma’s teams have won three playoff series. There was a six-game win over the Ottawa Senators in 2010, before the upstart Montreal Canadiens ousted them in seven games in the next round, in a series in which Bylsma was outcoached by Jacques Martin.

In 2011, Bylsma was outcoached by Guy Boucher and the Tampa Bay Lightning eliminated the Penguins in seven games.

In 2012, Bylsma’s Penguins lost to the Philadelphia Flyers in six chaotic games.

In 2013, Bylsma’s Penguins won their two other playoff series – a 1-vs.-8 battle with the New York Islanders and then another win over the Senators – before getting swept out of the postseason by the Boston Bruins in humbling fashion.

Before the Boston sweep, Bylsma was 20-17 in the playoffs since winning the Cup as a freshman coach. Now he's under .500.

But the reason his job is in jeopardy is not the number of postseason losses, but how the Penguins have lost them.

Getty ImagesTo put things in the proper perspective: Glen Sather was a general manager in the NHL the year before Brad Richards was born – a 34-year career that saw him build a dynasty with the Edmonton Oilers before running the New York Rangers beginning in 2000.

The 69-year-old Sather has been in this game for decades. He also had surgery to treat prostate cancer in March, leaving assistant GM Jeff Gorton to handle the team’s duties leading up to the trade deadline.

All of this is to say that it would be understandable if Sather decided to dial back his workload in the Rangers braintrust. Jimmy Murphy, who writes for ESPN Boston, hears this might be exactly what happens this summer. From his blog:

Don’t be surprised if Sather, 69, decides to step down from his GM post and places another in charge of running the player personnel decisions. An NHL source as well as a Rangers team source have told MurphysHockeyLaw.com that Sather is considering such a move as he prepares to meet with his hockey operations staff in La Quinta, California this week to discuss the coaching situation, the roster going forward and prepare for the 2013 NHL Entry Draft in Newark on June 30.

Keep in mind that Sather is on record as saying he plans on remaining general manager through next season.

But if he steps down as GM, Murphy hears that Jim Schoenfeld, the GM of the Rangers AHL affiliate the Connecticut Whale, and former Wild GM Doug Risebrough, a team consultant, would be prime candidates to take over as GM.

But Gorton has been viewed as the heir to Sather for some time, especially when it comes to Sather handing the reins over for players personnel while remaining the team’s president.

Or perhaps the Rangers will fulfill every puckhead fever dream and name Mark Messier their GM with Wayne Gretzky as their new head coach. Because who wouldn’t want to see that other than every Rangers fan ever?

The second period of Game 2 in the AHL Calder Cup Final was like a parfait of officiating incompetence, each layer revealing a bigger blunder.

It began with a shot by J.T. Brown of the Syracuse Crunch, which appeared to fly wide of Grand Rapids Griffins goalie Petr Mrazek. Well, at least to everyone but the players on the Crunch bench, who pounded their sticks to get the referee’s attention because they saw the net ripple:

Turns out Brown had actually Shea Weber’d it.

No, he didn’t sign an elephantine offer sheet with the Flyers.

No, he didn’t take a Griffins player’s head and slam it into the glass like it was a WWE turnbuckle.

We’re talking Weber’d like in the 2010 Winter Olympics: Brown shot the puck through the net, as was confirmed by video review. The Crunch had suddenly tied the game late in the second period.

Oh, but here comes the next layer of incompetence: Fun With Official Game Clocks.