Let’s explore a common sports cliche today. Hockey is a game of inches. Yes, pretty much every sport is a game of inches especially, as Al Pacino in his greatest performance reminded us, football*. This is a hockey website, though, so we’re going with hockey being a game of inches, or for our Canadian friends, a game of centimeters.
Today’s lesson in real life giving truth to the cliché is the supreme moment of hockey action for Tampa Bay Lightning fans in this year’s Stanley Cup run - Steven Stamkos one shot, one goal.