For all of the junk the NHL rightly deserves, it’s hard to argue that at least someone there knows what they are doing.
Coming off a wildly successful Four Nations Face-Off that saw the largest audience watch an NHL game in decades, the league schedulers decided last summer to celebrate the fifth anniversary of one of the wildest events in the league with a rematch in the same location.
Yes, five years ago tonight the Hurricanes were forced to rely on an EBUG because of injuries, and somehow a 42 year-old man who alternated between driving the ice resurfacing machine at the practice rink and playing the Jorge Alves role for the Maple Leafs and Marleys got a win in an NHL game.