In Mel Brooks’ comedy, The Producers, Max Bialystock (brilliantly played by Zero Mostel) and his accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) hatch a scheme to produce a sure-fire musical flop, then abscond with the investors’ money.
Intended to offend, Springtime for Hitler instead became a smash comedy, leaving Bialystock and Bloom in the lurch and holding the proverbial bag. They conclude the only way out is to blow up the theater and force the play to close.
In a thinly veiled way, this seems to describe the dilemma facing Penguins’ POHO/GM Kyle Dubas to a T.