This isn't the Canadian men's national soccer team of yesteryear, and the ghosts of failures past don't travel with it.
That's what Canada displayed on Thursday night, as it did exactly what was expected and dispatched Honduras 2-0 in their World Cup qualifying match in San Pedro Sula, even if the process was uneasy at times.
Quite often, we attach external meaning to sports through the prism of expectation. If expectations escalate through the course of a season — or in this case, a qualifying tournament — and a team fails to perform in sync, disappointment and dejection form through the cause-and-effect relationship.