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Whipped like a rented mule.

Turned into a speed bump on the highway of life.

Get as creative as you please. When you get beaten by a converted touchdown on home ice in hockey, you’ve taken a butt-kicking.

What to do? After a week when your high-flying Canadiens were turned into mud-crawlers in 5-1 and 7-0 losses to the Los Angeles Kings and Dallas Stars , there’s widespread wailing and gnashing of teeth.

But what do you really do? File and forget, that’s what.

Just because an old saw is a cliché doesn’t mean it isn’t true — and one of the oldest clichés is as true as they come: “You’re never as good as you look when you’re winning or as bad as you look when

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