So what can you do about the stress and frustration that comes from unmet expectations?

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Lundqvist had entered the postseason bearing the burden of unmet expectations, having never led the Rangers beyond the second round, and through the team's victories over Ottawa and Washington, he had rendered that history irrelevant.

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Whenever expectations are unmet, discouragement will probably follow.

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Beneath all this is the peculiar British combination of bragging and bewilderment, an air of expectations great but unmet and of unrealised specialness.

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Yet expectations have gone unmet.

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Analysts are quick to plant absurd expectations on certain stocks, only to whine and complain about it when it is unmet.

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