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Everything You Ever Knew Is Completely False

04/07/2016 at 5:45pm EDT

Jimmy Howard has no business playing this game. Mrazek stole that job from him last year.

Dylan Larkin belongs in Grand Rapids, because he's 19 and, like most adults, doesn't know or care what the hell a "PDO" is.

Brad Richards is too old. Mike Green is a liability.

Darren Helm has no hands.

Jeff Blashill is not Mike Babcock and we all know Mike Babcock never misses the playoffs.

Turn it all around. Spin it. Kick it. Toss it in the air and let the wind carry all those pre-conceived notions wherever the wind carries shit in the Spring.

Here they are, with one win remaining, offering us a ladle full of the most disgusting soup we've ever tasted.

Optimism.

You guard against it. You despise it. The taste of it makes your tonsils sting. But it's there and last night is to blame.

You actually believe the Wings will win tonite. Oh, you're saying all the right stuff but you're more relaxed today and I'm here to tell you that is wrong way of doing business, brother. The. Wrong. Way.

You'll agree and pretend to stave it off. But it's not going away. The feeling that after tonight, Saturday won't mean much. My warnings mean nothing. Our "normal" is the opposite. One game did that to you? Three games? One dong has had that kind of impact?

You're damn right it has and I'm right there with you.

There was a focus last night we hadn't see since maybe the early stages of last year's Tampa series.

25 becomes a reality tonite, in Boston.

But it won't be easy and it most certainly will not be fun. Buckle up, bitches. Buckle up and hold on because this one's gonna be bumpy. Sloppy. It's gonna be dirty. It's going to be ugly and mistakes will be made, attributed to last night's stress-fest.

Bumpy, sloppy, ugly and dirty like an Ohio woman stocking up on Camels at the Pump and Smoke before Bingo on a Tuesday.

It's a Live Blog and this one's gonna be a train wreck because you (and I) have allowed optimism to slip back into our lives.

LGRW. 25's coming tonite.

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