Across Canada, Tim Horton’s must have been thumping this morning. A watchful nation saw the Edmonton Oilers and Winnipeg Jets play six periods of hockey that ran into the wee morning hours. (I’m on the East Coast of Canada’s southern neighbor. It was 2:00 am when things ended. It was so late that NBC Sports went right to Poker After Dark. No wrap-up show with Kathryn Tappen but straight to poker for late night insomniacs.)

Winnipeg’s 4-3 triple overtime victory was the final blow in Edmonton’s Stanley Cup playoffs death spiral, resulting in Canada’s national hero and beloved son, Connor McDavid, searching for his golf clubs this morning. Winnipeg’s Kyle Connor ended the epic affair 6:52 into the 3rd OT after Connor McDavid coughed up the puck in Winnipeg’s defensive zone. Sort of streaking down the right wing – it was the 6th period of hockey and no one was really streaking – Kyle Connor’s shot from the right wing sneaked under the right arm of exhausted Edmonton goalie, Mike Smith.

Game Over. Dreams Shattered. Canadian Kids Crying in their Cheerios this Morning.

In the 3rd OT, both teams started to resemble somnambulant zombies and the play had definitely become more ragged. (I am currently trying to get through the latest zombie movie on Netflix, Army of the Dead. How can a zombie flick be boring? Well, this one is working hard to achieve that dubious distinction.)

Getting back to Connor McDavid, who scored one lonely goal ( He scored it in Game 4.) as his team was swept. Most of Canada is now mourning (Winnipeg is rejoicing.) the departure of the NHL’s best player, Connor McDavid, from the Stanley Cup playoffs. When Canadians walked to their laptops to start today’s work day, maybe a little Irish whiskey was added to that cup of Tim Horton’s?

It was a tough morning for a hockey-obsessed country that views Connor McDavid as royalty. And with Sidney Crosby also on the edge of playoff extinction, Canadians have to wonder about the state of its puck deities.

Are they simply mere mortals?