Let’s start with some statistical averages to balance the weight of losing to the league’s newbies. If your 500 team wins all its games, it loses the 500 team chic. That would be terrible, no? If your not nearly 500 home team loses twice as many home games, that’s even more terrible. Feel better already, right?
Me neither. And here’s the thing. The league tradition for expansion teams is to lose. Lose. Lose. For years even. They’ve broken the code. It’s not fair and you can be assured I will be writing my duly unelected league representative to express our dismay that a veteran expansion team like ours must suffer this indignity in our own rink.