Please forgive me for propagating that played-out catch-phrase particularly after you had to endure Penguins’ TV announcers not just beat, but pound that horse posthumously throughout the broadcast last night.
Honestly, I didn’t count the number of times I heard one of the announcers make, or allude to that hackneyed saying, nor do I recall the first time it was used as a hype statement pregame but after hearing it over and over again, eventually the iteration evoked images in the muse of my mind. Eventually the banality of it all brought forth the animated Tom Hanks as the train conductor of the “Polar Express” punching the tickets of children on the cusp of losing their belief.