The path to a triumph in the division series included one more victory, and the path to the World Series looked appetizing, too.
In A Year In Yellow, a documentary about Sir Bradley Wiggins's path to Tour de France triumph, Sutton was interviewed in the rather shabby flat (scroll to 5min 30sec).
It was two defensemen and a rookie, John Purves, who scored the first three goals to put the Capitals (9-7-0) on the path to their fourth consecutive triumph and hand the Islanders their 10th setback in 14 games 4-10-0 4-10-0 4-10-0
For Barack Obama, the crucial moment came one cold night in January 2008, when the one-term senator's unexpectedly decisive triumph in the Iowa caucuses set him on the path to an epoch-making victory.
Like his country's tortuous route to liberation, Mangar Makur Chuot's path to the Olympics has been a triumph of will over difficulty and disappointment.
The story of this film's troubled path to the screen, and its ultimate triumph, is the kind of scrappy-little-movie-that-could story that Hollywood loves.
"The path to freedom goes through prison, but the triumph of justice over evil is inevitable," Maseko says.
I spoke to Grubba about her journey as an actress in Hollywood - not an easy path to say the least - which makes her triumphs all the more inspiring.
His path to Milwaukee has some elements of a movie: triumph over adversity, doubters, a snowstorm, even a baby.
Crusaders' path to the final started with a victory over Newington YC, then came an extra-time success over Coleraine, a penalty shoot-out win against Linfield and another extra-time triumph, this time at home to Ballymena.
It would be an odd but welcome triumph if an awkward diplomatic incident became a path to greater discussion and understanding.
