’ effort faded Wednesday night in Las Vegas, going from supernova in the opening 15 minutes of the game, to simply not enough to beat a smoking-hot Golden Knights team by the third period.
The coaches are running out of fresh ways to deliver the same game plan. The video guys have clipped the opposing power plays so many times, they know them as well as that team’s coaches do. The writers are worn down, chasing teams that charter everywhere on commercial travel, with the inherent security, delays and cancelations that make air travel what it has become today. The pungent odor of the glove dryer makes the equipment guy want to go back to university.
The Oilers and Los Angeles Kings showed up at the Staples Centre Sunday while the Lakers floor still covered the ice surface, then played the fastest pro game in North America three hours later on a sheet of ice that is inferior to every city rink in a town like Edmonton or Regina. Body clocks don’t adjust better according to your salary, right? That’s why when your favourite player has a bad night, you might check the schedule before you carve him up on Twitter.
Then you add in the injuries, which seem to be an epidemic in the NHL at the moment. Take Saturday’s opponent, the Winnipeg Jets:
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