Sturm on Scoring Off Timo Meier, Sharks Playing the Right Way

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This goal coming off Timo Meier's deflection contained so much poetic justice that it must really mark the turning point for luck for Sharks this season. That was a pure example of the role of luck in hockey and its unpredictability which makes it so much more entertaining. When the Devils hit the post on their own empty net with a bouncing pass from the Sharks' end backwards into their own zone, it was clear on whose side the hockey gods were cheering. These kind of divine interventions in hockey plays do not come only randomly, hard-pressed teams with maximum desperation work ethic make them happen to erase the stress of always being down on your luck. It is the shape and physics of the puck (rubber substance with strange aerodynamics when spinning or sliding or bouncing on ice or round goal posts) that is behind the dominance of the luck factor in hockey. Some of this luck happens fast (player injury, puck in the mouth), and some of it happens ultra slowly (when puck is sliding down ice towards open net and no player can catch up). Hockey pundits don't have to spin the game as it is already spinning itself and its fans! Mike Grier was gifted a lucky rabbit foot and he is off to the races doing more rabbit tricks.