When is it too late for it to be too early?
If a team, especially one that is expected to do well, starts the season poorly, an argument that tends to be made is that it’s just a bad start and it’s too early to assume the worst.
At what point should panic start to set in? 15 games in? 25 games? The half-way point?
The end of November is a huge point in the NHL season. If you’re on the outside looking in during the opening days of December, you’ve put yourself in a hole that could be too deep to dig out of.