Hideous Asymmetry of the NHL Standings
A hockey player's eye injury comes not from a stick but from looking at the NHL standings, which split losses into three kinds (regulation, overtime, shootout) but have only one column for wins.
Transcript
[Two hockey players; one has a bloodshot eye] "Oh no! Did you get a stick to the eye?" "Worst. I gazed upon the hideous assymetry of the NHL standings." [Standings columns: W · L (regulation) · L (OT) · L (shootout)]
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021-10-06-hideous-asymmetry-of-the-nhl-standings/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)