Penguins: Endgame

Our friend Jim noted in a comment to a previous Rick Buker post, “This had to happen and now it did!!!” You are sooooo, right my friend. This Pittsburgh Penguins loss to the New York Rangers, like Thanos in the Marvel Universe, was inevitable. Those, like Jim and myself, and anyone willing to take off the rose-colored glasses and really look at this team could see the rotting bones beneath this whited sepulcher. Despite high profile players like Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Kris Letang, our Penguins were never a true Stanley Cup contender. Coaching and poor management decisions made this loss inevitable.

That’s right, if you have guessed by the tone of that opening statement, I have come to bury Caesar not to praise him. To be sure, this Penguins team has brought us many, many years of big-time hockey for our ocular pleasure and for that I am eternally grateful but it is over now.

As the Bard noted in the voice of Mark Antony

“The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones;”

So let it be with this incarnation of our Penguins.

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