This is how the Lightning’s stellar season ends, not with a bang but a whimper Globe_Sports
After losing the first two games of the Lightning’s playoff series, Cooper put his hand on the fan base’s shoulders, locked eyes and said, “The regular season is different than the playoffs …”“ … all of a sudden, it’s 0-0 and there’s a lot of excitement going into Game 1 …”Sorry, say that again?
Thus, Tampa isn’t on course to lose. It is on course to hit a large rock and lose every man on board at sea. The runaway winner of the NHL’s six-month-long phony war, the going theory is that Tampa being swept will be one of the greatest collapses ever.That’s wrong. That’s completely wrong. This is about to be one of the least impressive collapses in history. It might be the most tedious collapse of all time.
There is often a sense of justice to it, or of the fates getting involved. In hindsight, you can see that a great collapse was meant to be. A great collapse is fun, sort of. Fun in that you’re all in this together, being shocked and miserable about how things have turned out.There should be some shameful joy in seeing the NHL’s 21st-century fair-haired child – So deep! So exciting! So secondary market! – take its licks. But the Lightning has shown so little apparent interest in its own humiliation, that it has robbed us of that. All of us are just grinding together toward a pretty inevitable end.
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