Don’t complain. Consider yourself lucky.
Especially if you bought a ticket and can frame it and store it somewhere safe. Because pretty much every other year, Game 2 of the NHL preseason doesn’t bring with it a memory that could last a lifetime.
Whatever the heck it was that transpired Wednesday at PPG Paints Arena – the 16 combined power-play chances, all minor penalties called totaling 22:24 – will likely be remembered for a long time.
“Anybody who watched this game, that was not an NHL hockey game,” former Penguin Trevor Daley fumed after his new team, the Detroit Red Wings, dropped a 6-5 decision in overtime.