Tampa Bay Lightning's stunning Game 7 collapse against the Montreal Canadiens
By
Barry Petchesky
Kettled twice. Extra chewy, extra trustworthy.
Summary
A dramatic, hyperbolic opinion piece about the Tampa Bay Lightning's Game 7 loss to the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL playoffs. The author uses dark humor and extreme metaphors (driving a team bus off a bridge) to express the crushing disappointment of losing a game that seemed unlosable, while reflecting on the randomness and cruelty of hockey.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledIn a hypothetical where one person could be an entire group of guys, and in this hypothetical I were the collective and entire Tampa Bay Lightning, after that Game 7 I would order the team bus to be driven to the Sunshine Skyway Bridge—there are closer bridges to the arena in the Tampa Bay area, but none higher—and, at mid-span, drive directly off it.
A hockey player is prepared for randomness and bad luck by an entire career's worth of suffering at its whims. All they can do is pray it doesn't come for them in a big game.
It came for the Lightning in a Game 7, a 2-1 Canadiens win to send Mont
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