OK. So here’s my theory:
Sports fans in New York City are so advanced, so sophisticated, so attuned to the powers they possess in the overall sporting universe that they conspired Thursday and Friday to make certain that Henrik Lundqvist — the real one, the one who showed up for work Friday night at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla., and stonewalled the Lightning — would materialize, as opposed to the imposter who wore his gear for Games 2 and 3.
Why not?
Really, isn’t that just the next step in the process, in the way that sports fans believe — don’t just think, don’t just ponder, don’t just speculate, but believe — that we can influence the way things turn out in games that we really, truly, overwhelmingly care about?