Monday Muse: How Crazy Is That?

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Monday Muse: How Crazy Is That?

Some things make you say, “Did that just happen?”

No, I’m not talking about the US president saying kids will have to do with only 2 dolls for Christmas instead of 30, or him wanting to re-open Alcatraz as a prison, or him and the White House posting a picture of him as the Pope (yeah, that happened).

I’m talking about what happened during last night’s NHL playoff game between the Winnipeg Jets and the St. Louis Blues. If you are not a fan of the third most popular sport in the world. let me set the stage.

The Jets had the best record in the regular season and the best goalie, Conner Hellebuyck, and were favored to beat the Blues handedly. But after winning the first two games the series seemed to go off the rails with Hellebuyck being pulled in three of the next four game after less than stellar performances, and most Jets fans were skeptical that Game 7 would end in victory.

After letting in 2 goals in 4 shots, it looks like Hellebuyck would get yanked again and the Blues seemed to be destined to advance to the next round when they scored again, going up 3-1.

Cue the sports movie trope. Three minutes left in the game and the coach pulls the goalie, leaving the Jets’ net empty, to get an extra player, which pays off and they score with 2 minutes left to make it 3-2.

Still with a man advantage and the clock ticking down the final seconds, the Jets score with 1.6 seconds left in the game, sending the teams to overtime. Then late in the second overtime, the Jets score and win 4-3.

Whew…

It was almost as crazy as when a few years ago, the St. Louis Blues went from the worst team in the league, fired their coach mid-season, went on a winning streak to be the best team in the league and going on to win the Stanley Cup.

But not this year.

-Leon

Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.

My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/