A melancholy song for a melancholy couple of outcomes.
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Let’s start at the end, which happens to be a very awful place to start.
Jason Dickinson was at the end of his shift, and a bit tired. Leon Draisaitl got half a step on him, and Dickinson was slow to hand off his man and pick up another. In Boston, we were amazed at how Dickinson had worked his way into getting overtime shifts after being eschewed by Future Hall of Fame Coach Ken Hitchcock every time Jim Nill called him up. In Edmonton, we must admit that, here, Dickinson needed to hand off his man a touch earlier.