As expected? Short list. But irrelevant. How does this absolve the player that should be our leading performer? And he disappeared last year too. When many others lived up to expectations. I didn’t say he was THE problem, I disagreed that he wasn’t PART of the problem.
Yes one of the central reasons for our regular season success… and our playoff failure. Personally, if we are going to get blown out in the first round, I’d rather miss the playoffs and get better draft position.
The terminally negative focus on one season's playoffs and extrapolate it into the whole picture.
Those same folks in the season before, when the team made it to the Semis, ripped them as a fluke.
If folks are going to point to a single season loss in the first and put meaning to it, and deride them when they go to the Semis, it becomes obvious that those fans will explain how bad things are unless a Cup is won.
In 94 they won, and a fair amount of fans moaned that they destroyed the team in order to win.
Some fans can't seem to enjoy much at all.
I wish they would win it all every season, but too many don't understand what a huge role luck plays in all of this.
On a funny side note, I'm lucky enough to have been in the building in Game 7 in 94. They had never won in my lifetime, so it was amazinly important. After they won, it became less important for a while.
I understand how younger fans who have never experienced it feel. Finally seeing them win is unbelievable and I hope everyone gets to experience it, but it becomes a little less crazy for a couple of years afterwards.
