Onu200b Tuesday, we hadu200b someu200b funu200b withu200b theu200b idea ofu200b overreacting tou200b the season’s firstu200b week. It’s a sillyu200b thingu200b that hockey fansu200bu200b tend to do, and we usually end up looking back in a few months and wondering what all the fuss was about.
But every now and then the hockey gods like to smack us on the nose with an opening-week game that’s so lopsided, we wonder if they’re trying to tell us something. It’s one thing to lose a game or two. It’s another thing entirely to see your team get blown out of the water.