Depending on your relative life balance, which is determined by your index of blessings on one side and your various malfunctions on the other, 17 years can be a very long time. I have it on some authority.
Some of the babies born in 2006, for example, are going to the prom in the coming weeks, and others have probably already been there, and if those people could count on one true thing in their young lives, at least the portion of their lives that intersect with the National Hockey League, it is that come springtime, the Penguins would be in the playoffs.
Well, there goes that.
