There comes a moment in everyone’s life when they’re forced to swallow certain harsh realities about the world. Maybe, for you, when you were a child, you came downstairs at just the wrong moment one fateful holiday night and found yourself face to face with falsehoods you’d been fed about illogical worldwide break-and-enters, committed annually by a morbidly obese geriatric with the craziest form of transportation you’d ever heard of. (Or maybe, for you, it was more about rabbits in April.)
That same thing, figuratively, happened to the Tampa Bay Lightning one night in their series against the Detroit Red Wings.