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Tales from the Sin Bin

Penalty-box lore. One great scrap story at a time, honest about which parts are legend.

3 dispatches

Aug 21, 2026 Tales from the Sin BinFlames

Jim Peplinski's Encounters with Cannibalism

Forty years after Game 4 at the Montreal Forum, the truth about Claude Lemieux and Jim Peplinski is stranger than the legend, and a good deal funnier.

Riley Quinn

Ember-on-ink illustration of Willi Plett grabbing a Philadelphia Flyer's jersey mid-punch, both players in period-accurate 1970s gear.

Jul 24, 2026 Tales from the Sin BinFlames

Willi Plett's Bar Tab

Two Atlanta Flames-era heavyweights spent a season hunting each other. The record says three clashes but legend says eight. Decades later, they sat down together and had a few beers about it.

Riley Quinn

Stylized ember-on-ink illustration of Calgary Flames enforcer Tim Hunter in a red number 19 sweater, lit by orange embers against a black background.

Jul 12, 2026 Tales from the Sin BinFlames

Tim Hunter's Black Magic

He was a middleweight in a league of giants, so Calgary's sheriff invented a fight trick nobody could solve. They called it black magic. Here's the move, and the one man it never worked on.

Riley Quinn

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