_wonky_ = "shady"?

[Victor Steinbok]

This just in:

http://goo.gl/IRHeZ
> Game 5 is Friday night in Pittsburgh, and the Pens will get Craig
> Adams and James Neal back from suspensions incurred in Sunday's wonky
> Game 3.

I could sit here with a dictionary for a week and not figure out what
"wonky" means here. "Inexplicable"? "One only a true fan could love"? I
have no idea.

For the record--Game 3 was won by Philadelphia Flyers. If featured a
large number of penalties, including some of the dirty varyiety, that
merited three Pittsburgh suspensions by the league. Even given this
information, I'm not sure how it was "wonky". But one thing it wasn't is
"shady".

     VS-)

On 4/19/2012 8:01 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> ...
> As for "wonky", I take it as a word being used by a person who is
> dissatisfied by something they don't understand well enough to explain to
> someone else.
>
> DanG

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