I admit it; I'm getting old.
In my forties, I don't function well on less than eight hours of sleep,
and my current work schedule has me up at six-thirty.
I'm usually in bed shortly after ten,
even if it means missing the end of the game.
After putting the kids to bed, I checked the score.
It was 4-2 Wings, which was a slight improvement on the 3-0
I saw when I started the put-to-bed process.
I made a joke about how many empty net goals the Wings would score
and I went to sleep.
I missed a lot.
Unable to watch the game, I missed out on Detroit's resident anti-vaxxer
Tyler Bertuzzi
putting four goals through Andrei Vasilevskiy
including a sick display where he split Sergachev and Hedman
with a between-the-feet pass to himself
and another where he flew out of the penalty box
and pounced on a deep puck--
--imagine scoring four freaking goals
and having your team still lose the game--
--and I missed Steven Stamkos score two quickies on the power play
the second coming while they were still announcing the first.
But most of all what I missed was the Tampa Bay Lightning
using their ludicrous wealth of offensive talent
to overcome their sloppy defensive play.
This game is only a marginal improvement over the home opener
against the Penguins, but a win is a win,
and goals are always fun to watch.
But tell me--
--did you possibly expect the defending champs to allow
TWELVE GOALS in their first two games?
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