It Should Have Been...

What do the damnable Avengers (including Boston-born Chris Evans, 

self-appointed ass of America... er... Captain America!) 

call that side-effect thing again... a splinter reality? 

An alternate timeline: there you go! 

Well, call this what you will 

but this should have been 

the way things would have gone 

in these silly goose playoffs: 

... just like EA Sports 

had projected it, 

way back in 2014! 

They did it for Jarome, mind you - 

they had a soft spot for a great player who wanted 

to win it all once, at least, before calling it a career... 

Iginla had tried with the Penguins, in 2013; 

they were swept by the Bruins! 

He joined the Bruins the next year... 

They were ripped off by hated rivals in 7 games! 

And that was it for Iginla's quest for a cup... 

HE SHOULD HAVE PERSEVERED - 

kept trying, in 2015: third time's (usually) the charm 

- and it would have been, had he stuck with the 

BRUINS - instead, he left the team, 

weakening them, diminishing their chances...  

(He was not crazy: he was not about to join 

the luckier-than-crap shitty habs next...!!!) 

AND SO LET US BELIEVE 

- yes, *believe* - 

that if scientists are correct 

and science-fiction can be prophetic  

(sometimes...) and hit the nail 

on its proverbial head, 

somewhere, out there 

there is a reality 

- an alternate dimension, 

another timeline - 

where things occurred 

exactly as some sportscaster 

had projected them, right there 

on that bracket challenge! 

A Luminous predictor, really... 

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