Because excuses mask the bitter taste of tears.

Yeah, it's too bad that tonight's game wasn't a fair one, right? I mean maybe if and Pavel Datsyuk and Niclas Lidstrom hadn't been forced to sit out tonight's game due to Gary Bettman, they woul--... oh, wait, what's that? That was from two games ago against Detroit? And we apparently beat them in a game between then and now with Lidstrom and Datsyuk in the lineup?And then we did it a second time just last night!? You mean they were in, and we beat them!? Well, who would have guessed!(This much-belated, horse-beating, first-post-in-half-a-year entry is brought to you by the letters H, A, T, and the number 3. ... yes, that can be looked at in two different ways, too.)