So, in the spirit of positive things, I would like to tell you about something really, really good.

In fact, not only was I shocked by the absence, I was pretty disappointed, as well. After all, hockey is Canada's national sport, and the only real contender for that title. It isn't like here in America, where the NFL, NBA, NASCAR, and Major League baseball are all huge, viable commercial draws. In Canada, you've got Hockey, then curling, and then a guy boxing a reindeer, bare-knuckled, naked, in the dead of the Canadian winter. (Although, apparently Canada is the world's biggest trampoline superpower. Who knew?) And yes, both the curling and the reindeer boxing are completely awesome, but when it comes down to it, they just don't bring out the fans the way that, say, men driving in a circle six hundred times does. 

So to see Canada so desperately underrepresented in the NHL playoffs is, to my mind, an absolute travesty. And after careful consideration, I think that I know what the problem is.