“Fortune favours the brave,” said Pliny the Elder as he steered his ship toward the shoreline near the vicinity of Pompeii after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Dominic Ducharme threw caution in the wind and went hard after the Vancouver Canucks in the last few minutes of regulation in last night’s game. The coach pulled Jake Allen for an extra attacker with two minutes to go, giving his players a fair chance to earn a draw. A puck-out-of-play penalty gave the team over a minute to equalize, and the coach went for it.