Like Kierkegaard, the Isles management believes that faith should trump and challenge rational thought. Kierkegaard’s work was famously (and deliberately) hard to understand, much like every decision Mike Milbury ever made.

Tampa Bay Lightning - Jeremy Bentham

A team now built around the philosophy of maximising pleasure, the Bolts have been accused of abandoning traditional concepts of hockey philosophy (e.g. defensemen). And some might say that Bentham’s ultimate fate, of being stuffed and mounted immobile in a cabinet, bears a startling resemblance to Olaf Kolzig’s recent form…