Wikipedia with a nice setup to when Calaf breaks into song: “The cruel and emotionally cold princess then decrees that none of her subjects shall sleep that night until his name is discovered. If they fail, all will be killed.”

Princess Turandot, a candidate for the Trump cabinet

This is the first Sharks game I’ve seen this season when they were totally out of it start to finish. 3rd period goals from Ryan Leonard and Pavol Regenda make for a 7-1 final. Not the way the Sharks want to head out on the road but maybe they’ll find their game again out there

After 40 it’s worse - Caps 6 Sharks 0. Shots were even after 1 but now it’s Capss 26-18. Another goal for Ovechkin. Kind of bleak out there

You could run a string out from the goal mouth to the faceoff dot to Askarov’s right and pretty much hit where each of the first three goals were scored from. Sharks defensive structure, lacking

Last year Ovi scored on the Sharks late in his march to the goal scoring record. He did it again tonight, which is bad enough, but that was only one of four Caps goals in the first period, one shorthanded, enough to chase Askarov. WAS 4 SJS 0

I should add that this was a YouTubeTV insertion (note the “sponsored” bug in the upper left corner) so no human at ESPN would have seen it, and probably no one at YTTV either