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despite their best intentions, this has to be the only group that could screw up a 50/50 draw for their fans.
it’s like they’re continually chasing this pot under the rainbow to be the biggest and best that the actual fan experience always seems to play second fiddle somehow.
at one point this town would have been buzzing all day long about what the team would have to do on the ice for two straight games and who would step up to get to the next series. it would have been about the hockey and the wisdom or the fallacy of breaking up the lines and combinations that got the the team to where it was.
instead, friday was all about getting a 50/50 raffle ticket as if the fans knew there wouldn’t be a chance for them to buy another one.