And here’s my latest on IIHF.com.

The other race, the one that has people losing sleep, sweating through nights, having nightmares, acting absentminded, and losing their hair is the one that has two teams playing in a qualification series with the best teams in the Allsvenskan, the league one tier below the Elite League. And that’s just the fans. What the players, coaches, and team managers are feeling is probably worse.

That’s the Yin. The “shady place.”

Click here to read the whole piece.

Edit: And here’s the song I quote in the piece.