Saw this on twitter and it got us thinking (even though it should be “Chicago” instead of “Columbus”)..
The Penguins blowing their playoff chances against Columbus might really end up being the biggest butterfly effect in the NHL this century https://t.co/pCJ4KJhXEI
— Nathan Strauss (@NathanPStrauss) May 19, 2023
As described in Wikipedia:
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministicnonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.