Yes, and Z HockeyFan took me to task for not believing his "fact based" postitions. As if a wild hypothetical about what the 2015-16 Stars might have done against a 2021 version of a goalie in a different system, as well as saying that had that goalie been playing that well in 2020, we couldn't have managed one more win out of two games to win that series in 7 games, even though we were slightly favored is a fact to him. Huh?
Agree with Sportswastaken. Some here look back on the finals run to pick it apart, as if the Stars didn't deserve what they got. While I agree they caught a break against the Avs, their entire run wasn't just due to bad goalies. And, while I was skeptical of them winning every round, I did manage to enjoy the run. Statistically, it might not happen again in my lifetime, so why not enjoy the ride?
I hope the negative Nellie's around here don't translate their Stars negativity to real life. I fear they would be lousy spouses, friends, or co-workers if they picked people apart in the real world like they do here. I doubt they do, because something about the internet makes some folks brave or foolhardy, or both.
I won't speak for the bad goaltending thing because that isn't my belief either.
But I'll address the other points as a "detractor".
The reason most of us pick it apart is because people, yourself included, and management apparently too.
Are pointing to this fluke run as the new standard for the team.
People have thrown around "contender" as a descriptor for this team even.
The team is still just a wildcard team.
Management came out and said that they were keeping the status quo, despite quite literally getting smacked around in the SCF by tampa, because...2 wins away.
Everyone could see we need offensive help. And better bottom 6 talents.
We kept the losers, like Cogliano, who was a healthy scratch in the most important game of the season (gm7 against the avs)
Added players that hadn't played in the nhl in years to supplement our "depth".
Then got to watch teams routinely skate circles around us this year.
We got to hear that our career loser coach was safe no matter how embarassing some of the games/loses were. He was given carte blanche because hey 2wins from a cup.
We got to see our idiot gm, sorry career average gm, whos hampered the team with bad contracts, bad drafting and poor coaching choices. Lay all the blame for poor performances on the players because they didn't "play the right way"
Yes a roster with Justin Dowling, Tanner Kero, Joel L'Esperance, Rhett Gardner, nick Caamano, and andrew cogliano some of which were regularly utilized on the pp wasn't devoid of talent, or suffering from poor coaching. They just didn't pay the right way.
We got some canned bs about how Seguin, Bishop and radulov were "our deadline pickups" though being fair that may not have cane from anyone in the organization... I'm not going to look for the sources.
We got to watch a team still inexplicable in the PO hunt, though at a miniscule level, sit still at the deadline, only to get the
"Haha 2 of these deadline adds are done for the whole year now"
Knowing full well those 2 are out the full year prior to the deadline instead of trying add something or trying to sell off some ufas like Cogliano/comeau, even for a lowly 5th. Or trying to sell Oleksiak off for something of value.
We hung onto everyone, with the basic assumption that our idiot gm likely plans to bring everyone back.
Hey that's OK, at least the young guys will get to play some more now that the towel has been thrown in, and we'll shut down Hintz so he can get the surgery he needs... nope just kidding here's 15 minutes a night of cogliano, and comeau because loser coach got to loser coach. Oh and hintz roulette too, because very slim chance at POs still.
Everyone around us last year got better, even Colorado who was already ahead of us, got better.
Not us. We kept the same lineup, i mean what else could we do, nill f***ed the cap so much that we had to use Ltir from day 1, just to put below NHL quality players in the lineup to have a full roster.
But 2 wins away, in a weird year, with a weird format that none of us likely live to see again. No reason to make changes.
I mean who could have seen injuries to radulov and Hintz, except for everyone who was talking about how the condensed schedule was going to skyrocket injuries, but you know some unforeseeable phenomenon by dallas management. Never mind knowing from day 1 our #1 center and #1goalie would miss most if not all of the season.
We can enjoy the actual PO run, but we have to be realistic about what it is, a fluke.
The team over-achieved, work still needs to be done on this roster, but with dipshit in charge you know nothing will.
So yes a year later i can be disappointed overall by the scf run, because it bought a loser front office more time, and gave those same people a misguided sense that this team is right there with Tampa and Colorado.