Now, hockey's longest current streak since their last Stanley Cup will be extended by another year. It looked as though the Blackhawks would rally to make the playoffs, but a recent four-game losing streak brought their demise. They found out the hard way that it's a lot easier to get wins early in the season than to try to make them up and chase teams late. An 0-7 start killed them. Even though they're just one game below .500 since that start, that caused them to miss the playoffs.
Wins are worth just as much early in the season as they are late, but are easier to find.
I am the Blackhawks. Now, late in the semester with work piling up, I am figuring out that work done early in the semester makes life a lot easier, and that making up everything is not simple, especially because I have to do it in all my classes. My procrastination is just like starting out 0-7. I dug myself into a hole I might not be able to get out of. I need to go on a decent winning streak to rally and gain that final playoff spot.