I get being annoyed with the Pens in the final, because any right-thinking person should be, but this is a pretty dumb comment. The NHL loves the Pens making it this far; their only real beef is probably that the Pens' opponent isn't the Hawks or Kings; the problem isn't so much that the Sharks aren't as exciting as that the NBA is a bigger deal and there's an unfortunate market split that was never going to go the NHL's way; and the NHL will be fine, as evidenced by decades of absolutely terrible decisions that haven't screwed them yet.