It was Colin Greening a season or two ago who, during a second-intermission interview with a CBC Hockey Night in Canada reporter, commented on the end-to-end nonstop pace of the game versus the Toronto Maple Leafs. “Yeah, it’s a track meet,” he said in his honeyed I-graduated-from-Cornell-University tone, and proceeded to comment on how they’d like to slow it down and get back to their game.
I don’t know… sometimes a track meet is a good thing.