Openingu200b night is almostu200b here,u200b withu200b theu200b NHLu200b regularu200b season kickingu200b off Wednesday night.u200b That means it’su200b timeu200b for an annualu200bu200b hockey tradition: People reminding you to stay calm, to avoid panic, and not to overreact to every little thing that happens in a team’s first game or two of a long season.
Will we listen? No we will not. Those people are annoying, and it’s way more fun to overreact to every minor thing that happens in the season’s earliest days. We didn’t wait out three whole months of offseason just so we could be calm and measured once the season started.