Viqsi
"that chick from Ohio"
While your comment wasn't directed at or to me, it does directly target a conversation in which I was involved.
I now specifically recall why I quit posting or even bothering to read this board. Contrary to your belief, you don't get to dictate the opinion of others. It seems impossible for you to simply disagree. You will shove your opinion down the throat of anyone who does not toe the line according to your version of, well, anything, really.
Sorry, but after the way I got treated during the Howson protest (I still occasionally get calls from debt collectors who've been led to believe I used to live in Mansfield) I have zero tolerance whatsoever for twisting facts to suit "we're all ****ed and nobody should ever feel happy about this team ever again" doomsday theories. It's just a thing of mine. I get into sports to combat depression, not cultivate it.
MY opinion is that there was a change in the disposition of Tortorella, the team and their apparent reluctance to admit serious problems with the team's play coinciding with that meeting (either incidentally or purposely).
That is different from "their play went downhill after the meeting", which is what I was responding to. If you want to suggest that they didn't handle adjustments well after that point, that's a different discussion (and one that might have merit, because towards the end of that stretch they were winning mostly because of Bob and in spite of themselves). But to say they did poorly after that is simply factually wrong.