That may be true when you're playing Vancouver circa 94, not when you're playing one of the top 2 winners in recent memory in the Kings. I'm sorry I disagree. It's so easy to say that, but reality is when you're the underdog and playing a great team manufactured adversity by the refs will **** you up. Teams in general are too close, but when one is better than the other, that's enough of an edge. 3 gift goals in 5 games is way too much to give a team like the Kings in a series that featured 3 OT games and 5 OT periods.
I like your posts - you are passionate, insanely behind the team, and have good hockey knowledge. But blaming things and making excuses
is a mentality that basically all successful people agree is a failure mindset. Read a couple of hundred books on the most successful people and these people simply do not do it. One after another after another you'll see this:
"I was always taught not to make excuses." -Derek Jeter ... "Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." -George Washington Carver ... "He that is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else." -Benjamin Franklin ... "No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune." -Junior Seau ... "Never make excuses." -John Wooden ... "Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not." -George S. Patton ... "I do not believe in excuses." -J. C. Penney
I can post dozens more, but that would be silly. Basically, I grew up impoverished in the South Bronx, a disaster childhood. My younger brother is dead, my older brother in prison for life. I refused to accept that path. I have spent my life studying what it takes to persevere and succeed - a library of over 2,000 books - and the most successful people do not make excuses, they focus on results. If they do not get the desired result, they take ownership for it, and seek to learn from it and find a better path. You can disagree with that, and that is perfectly okay. And nothing I am saying is meant to be personal or in any bad spirit. I am simply relaying what I have seen repeated over and over by highly successful people. Be well