All right, Tim Murray. Time to shift gears, please.
Look: I’m as patient a Buffalo Sabres fan as you’re going to find. I’m not one of those guys who lives and dies by living vicariously through professional sports. I didn’t always used to be this way – I remember terrifying some people back in my college days due to my rabid intensity during the playoffs of both professional and college sporting events – but my father had a history of heart disease, and before his ticker finally gave out, he told me to stop getting so excited over the things in life I could not control.