You dont even realize you just proved my point. Fans are emotional, sometimes in the extreme. Emotional reactions happen here ALL THE TIME. But those same people saying emotional things 7 months ago ARE STILL HERE saying ridiculous, infuriating emotional shit today.
Would have been a lot easier to go be a Lightning fan instead, or something.
How about Ingram goes to Nashville and Askarov comes to Milwaukee. Is that possible?
You are starting to sound like Byrddog.
And frankly, a few of us have stopped posting here because of crap like this, but we haven't given up loving the Preds.
The only part of the playoff picture that is not settled is the Western Conference wildcard positioning. We're one of the 2 and Dallas should be the other (and Vegas has an infinitesimal chance).
Facing either flames or avs with Saros injured isn’t a good prospect. Rittich has been serviceable at times but not good enough to rely on in the playoffs. Other hopes would be Ingram comes up or Askarov signs and comes in and either play lights out
I tend to not post after losses and almost always stay out of GDTs that are losses because of what I view as infantile reactions from so many people. It's the same ridiculous crap that's on Twitter and FB, which I also don't participate in.
I'm pretty sure this is why Steve always waited til the next day to post his observations(and always away from the GDT) Emotions are too high immediately after the game, especially after an absolutely devastating happenstance like the Saros injury. Usually by the next day rational analysis can be done. But to say people who make emotional statements of discouragement arent "fans" is just wrong. If they werent fans they wouldn't be emotionally involved enough to be on a message board for the team and participants in the GDT. This especially applies to posters like me who arent versed in Xs and Os and pretty much go by "feel"... and watching Saros limp down the tunnel made me feel absolute despair. And I'm sure my posts reflected that.
No it is not. It is a poster reacting emotionally to a devastating, unexpected situation and saying something that, in 12 hours, the would probably reconsider. Raw emotion doesnt usually produce rational thought. But most humans understand that and can let something slide that was said in the heat of the moment. If they are truly "not a fan" they will leave, like Byrd did.
I agree, that's why I usually/try to stay away from the emotional type threads. They tend to make me even more frustrated than the result of the game. Once again, I probably shouldn't have replied but here we are.
Yeah, everything about the way that game ended is infuriating as a fan, I get it. I didn't mean to be argumentative just adding my perspective on staying away from bad loss GDTs and away from the boards completely when things are truly going tits up. It's not that I can't handle the frustration of the team's performance, it's that I don't want to be doubly frustrated by the team and then some of the ridiculousness that is posted here.
I feel like the level of angst and "dumbness" of posts has actually significantly improved over the years. There used to be a good handful or two of posters that would only show up after bad losses, extended losing streaks, or in non-playoff years, and what we often see in the GDT now is positively enlightening by comparison. I'm sure we'll see a couple of them poke their heads in after we get bounced in the playoffs though.
And that's completely fair, no disagreement there. I don't really post a whole lot after games win or loss.
Non-contact. Looked like he tweaked his knee. I'm sure coaches will be blamed for overworking him at some point soon.
So Vegas can theoretically tie the preds and dallas in points. However, they can get enough ROW to catch Dallas but they can't get enough to catch us. So we're in no matter what, however Dallas just needs 1 point to be in as well. Hence people saying compounding miracles. Dallas would have to lose out, Vegas would have to win everything in regulation or OT to make it now. They would tie dallas in ROW, then the tie-breakers would fall Vegas' way.
