Edmonton Oilers and Ottawa Senators must bear their burdens with dignity Globe_Sports
Ottawa Senators' Chris Tierney, right, checks Edmonton Oilers' Alex Chiasson during third period NHL hockey action in Edmonton, on March 23, 2019.In what may be the greatest meta-observation of sports, former L.A. Lakers coach Pat Riley once wrote, “Success is often the first step toward disaster.”
People who work in pro sports don’t fail. If they had, they wouldn’t have ended up working in pro sports. The pair of them highlighted their problems this week with some wild, popping-off-in-public by authority figures. But sports isn’t the real world. Out there, lots of people can win. In sports, only one can at a given time.
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