April 5, 2012; Denver, CO, USA; Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Steve Mason (1 Colorado Avalanche  The Blue Jackets defeated the Avalanche, 5-2. Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-US PRESSWIRE

The NHL hockey season has left me a little like Steve Mason. Dazed, not sure what just happened or where we are going.

I just can’t quite let the NHL hockey season go. So bear with me for a little more mourning–

A poem keeps coming to mind, particularly a few lines. The Poem is,

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The lines are:

Someone had blunder’d:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:

Or of course, if we want to get a little more “Fine Arts” we could go to:

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

But life must go on, so let’s look at a bright side.. The news release that Seattle has approved a new sports complex and arena, make a potential expansion  of the NHL a little more likely. This would be right next door to Vancouver, so I’d think hockey would be a great draw. The article [click title for link]

Potential NHL Seattle owner talks relocation vs. expansion

Talks about expansion and NHL re-alignment of teams like the world is sunny and hockey is back. I guess I like that attitude!!!!