My interest in the NHL season checked out with the Caps, but here’s a quick recap of what’s going on: the Los Angeles Kings are up 3-0 against the New Jersey Devils in the Stanley Cup Finals, and, more importantly, Taiwan’s Next Media animation is recreating it as a Pro Bending battle between a bunch of guys dressed like the Burger King and the literal Devil. In pads.

This is a particularly good one, featuring the Devil using voodoo (which seems like a mixed metaphor), Fox Sports buying Kings broadcast rights with a treasure chest of gold and that moment pictured above where the Devil skates around the Kings and causes them to fall into the ice. You know, because hockey games are always held on frozen lakes. Oh yeah, and the part where the Kings survive drowning and freezing to death by commanding fog-spewing polar bears. Think we don’t talk about hockey enough? Tell the real Kings to ride in on polar bears.

Video is below. Stick around ’til the end for the Carol cameo.

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Welcome to our weekly installment of Friday Face-Off, in which we pit two random videos against each other in the ultimate battle of “Awwww” and “Oh snap!” as you, our glorious With Leatherites, determine which video shall forever live in infamy as a champion. As always, feel free to submit videos to BurnsyWL@gmail.com and winning videos will receive our super cool, not-for-sale-anywhere With Leather t-shirts.

As we tip-toe toward Christmas, I thought we’d try a little experiment to see if it’s possible for anything to be better than Santa Claus, who is totally real despite what my brother has been telling me for 27 years. Obviously I have a great deal of respect for the other many wonderful holidays that take place at this time of year, but they don’t have any mascots with immense commercial appeal, so maybe they should try a little harder.

That said, our first video this week is a super heavyweight contender, as it features the world’s most popular animal of the week, Siku the polar bear cub, who was abandoned by his mom because she couldn’t produce milk. Abandoned. On Christmas. Is it cold in here? Then it’s time to turn up the cute.

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