Several years ago, the NHL ran a series of ads called “History will be Made,” in which they speculated on how the course of NHL history would have changed if certain events never occurred.
Here at Fear the Fin, we thought we’d take the chance to speculate on what would have happened if San Jose got bounced by Vegas in Game 5 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals. This is an article that could have been written if the darkest timelines had come to pass, and a reminder that the best and worst times are separated by a very thin element of chance.