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Sometimes when you’re sick, you forget what it was like to feel healthy. You lose your frame of reference for what normal — or whatever normal is for you — feels like. It seems like you’ve always felt this way and you’re always going to feel this way and nothing will ever get better.
It’s like that in sports sometimes too.
When your team is winning, it feels like it’s just the natural state of things. This is how good they’ve been all along and this is how good they really are and they will always be this good forever and ever. Any previous losses were just bad luck or your team “figuring things out” but now that they’re winning, everything is okay.
But when your team is losing, it also feels like it’s just the natural state of things. Your team is a bunch of bums, who don’t deserve their contracts and should be embarrassed to wear your team’s beloved jersey. Thus it has always been and thus it shall always be. Time to light your jersey on fire and call for everyone to be fired/traded.
It’s not true, of course. At least, it’s usually not true. Some people do get sick and never get better and some teams lose and never stop losing. But, as I continue to deal with a fever, cough, and headache from a mystery ailment, it helps to remember that this too shall pass.
Likewise, after the Vancouver Canucks got utterly destroyed 6-0 by the New Jersey Devils, it helps to remember that this too shall also pass as well.
It doesn’t help that the Canucks have managed just one win on home ice this season against the hapless 3-7-1 Pittsburgh Penguins. It also doesn’t help that they just lost to the Carolina Hurricanes, making this a second-straight loss against a potential contender after beating mostly teams destined for the NHL’s basement.
But it’s still early in the season. The Canucks haven’t even played ten games yet. Arguably, this is the best time of the year for a wake-up call.
“It was embarrassing. We should be embarrassed,” said Tyler Myers. “Even through some wins the last couple of weeks, there are some things within our game that we’ve got to clean up. We’ve got to find our identity. Right now, we’re not there yet and we know it. As tough as tonight was, we just have to keep working and come out next game and be ready to respond.”
Speaking of wake-up calls, no wake-up call for me tomorrow morning, thanks. I’m still sick and it was a 7:40 p.m. start when I watched this game.
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