Hey Dean, what’s with the darkness and shadows and stuff? I mean, when you were in Edmonton back in the mid-to-late 90s, the Oilers weren’t all that great, but at least they made the playoffs once in a while. Things could have been worse. A LOT worse. Imagine being Connor McDavid right now, scoring 100 points every year yet having a snowball’s chance in hell at making the playoffs.

Or even worse, you could end up like Todd from Breaking Bad…

What? You don’t remember Todd?

Oh no, you remember Todd. Or perhaps you know him best by his Internet meme name “Meth Damon”.

That dude was craaaaaaaaaaaaazay! In case you’ve never seen the show before, Todd looked real sweet and innocent (maybe not in this photo, but trust me, he seemed like a real lamb in the beginning), but he was in fact a member of a neo-Nazi group that was involved in the drug trade when Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston) came along, and they all started working together, making tons of blue meth until Walter finally had a change of heart, realized these guys were evil, and a whole bunch of people got killed, including Todders in a wild shootout that concluded the much-beloved and still absolutely awesome series. I haven’t seen the final season of Breaking Bad in a while, so I’m probably off a tad on the details, but you get the idea, right Dean?

So keep your chin up, Dean-O, and things will surely get better.