[CaptainCrunch]

The whole they were the better team tonight is pretty irrelevant, they lost.

There's no moral victories in sports, the plucky underdog that fought the better team and valiantly lost, ends with the byline, this team lost, that team won.

The winning team after the game isn't going to stand around and tap their sticks on the ice out of respect while the crowd does the slow clap from a bad 1980's teen movie.





Its the playoffs, they lose, and their "Better game" didn't translate and put their backs against the wall, and its not likely to translate into them winning the next game.

And frankly nobody by the end of the playoffs is going to care all that much about Toronto's plucky resolve, in the end they're the team in the series trailing 3-1 and being outscored 17 to 9.

You want moral victories, or the argument that yeah we lost but we were visually better, there's a team 3 hours to the north of us that bases their whole existence on that.

Hope does not float eternal, Thelma and Lousie are two rotting corpses that were picked over by buzzards, and in the end John Cena didn't marry Nikki Bella.

And no, "Dad I really tried hard" does not let you escape from a report card full of F's.