The Hurricanes Took Vegas To The Brink And The Rest Of Us Got Hockey Nirvana

Well, the National Hockey League has hopelessly screwed itself now. It has unwittingly but in a very real sense created a Stanley Cup Final so wonderfully bizarre and delightfully absurd that the first game that ends up normal could absolutely result in its Toronto offices burned to the ground and as soon as the Knicks parade ends, burning their New York offices to the ground as well. The NHL would totally deserve that result because you cannot keep ratcheting up the improbability game after game and then, once the suckers are hooked, give the people "normal" hockey. People react poorly to bait-and-switch at tavern-watching level. Put more simply, you cannot give people this or this or most amazingly, this and then just dump a regular old game on them once you've grabbed them. Bait-and-switch will never have had gained such a bad reputation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcsakQhf93U