WeWe like to measure the concept of time like books when it comes to Sports.
We think of every year’s team like the next 82-and-change pages of an ever expanding tome that stretches to the first day the team was founded up until the very moment you’re reading this now. Every iteration of core players, every major trade, every championship win and heartbreaking loss wrapped up in neat little bows like chapters of a never-ending manuscript. The only way the book closes is if the team leaves the town it’s in or if it closes shop. In ice hockey.