Not going to lie, that was a pretty funny bit. I already knew exactly what happened to the Carolina Hurricanes in their hilariously demoralizing loss to the Boston Bruins, yet still I was caught off guard by the broadcast footnote that was "...and the B's scored 5 straight in the third to win 6-4". If there is anything more satisfying than a good, old fashioned long con then it's self-deprecating sarcasm, and this homer-heavy breakdown of the Canes' game turned nightmare managed to combine both seamlessly. Truth be told, I wish more regional sports' coverage of bad teams was like this. When a season is inevitably headed towards being a complete train wreck why not do whatever is necessary to derive some laughter in the final moments before fateful impact? I can promise you that when a plane is going through the most traumatic of turbulence there are more people aboard it that are looking for one last person to fuck as opposed to crafting harsh criticisms of the pilot, so why is it so hard for sports fans to make the best of bad situations? Objective analysis has its place too, but that place is not the evening time slots of local news networks whose target audience is trying to find a way to get over season-defining losses rather than reliving them. Credit to Mark Armstrong for recognizing that and not highlighting the 90 second stretch in which it took the Bruins to tie the game with three consecutive goals that came faster than Rick Pitino on ecstasy...
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