ScoresFromCentre
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- Jan 29, 2016
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I heard several fans call Farwell’s postgame show at the end of the regular season with a sky is falling attitude, saying the Rangers wouldn’t get out of the first round. While I didn’t specifically hear anyone in the media opining on the three losses to end the season — two to Guelph — isn’t that just stating a fact? That’s just what happened. To me it sounded like fans were a lot more concerned about the skid to end the season.
Fans will be fans. There were a couple pages of "sky is falling" posts in the Knights topic during their Memorial Cup-winning 2015-16 season when they lost three in a row in January. There was a bit of the same in this topic when the Rangers lost a few after the big post-deadline winning streak. You'd think by now we'd all figure out that no team is as good as it looks when everything's clicking* or as bad as it looks when everything's going wrong, but we're emotional creatures.
On the Pope thing I know he thought he thought he was doing his job asking Mascherin about wanting to be traded from the Panthers but why take the wind out of his sails after the game? Mascherin gave him the right answer. The question should not have been asked IMO. They need to stick to the series.
I'm sure Mascherin didn't want him to ask the question, but he probably expected it. It's newsworthy. Not a bad thing for a young guy to develop the ability to tune out the distractions during the playoffs, either. He handled it well.
*Except the 08-09 Spitfires. They were actually that good.