I am still interested in watching games but my tolerance fore poor starts has diminished. If we are looking like garbage, I do something else while watching, like play a game, surf the net or work. Last game, I watched in double speed off the dvr once we went down 3. But I am still tuning in every game to give them a chance. As people said, there is still a morbid curiosity of what could go wrong and there is still a chance to see sparks of a good team.
More than anything I am frustrated with reading the board in general. This is not at all directed at bleedblue1223. I'm just using his post as a jumping off point to say something that's been on my mind.. I am not posting so much and skimming content because it is so much fiction and repetition. I am fine with negativity, if it is intelligent discussion. However, we have so many people on the board that are plain fabricating Bull #@$%, ad-hoc narratives to explain why we are losing. The good posters I enjoy reading are posting less and less, or at least putting less analysis into their posts. That makes sense, because it is so difficult to figure out what is wrong right now, good posters don't know what to say. One aspect of the team looks terrible one week and good the next, while a completely different aspect that looked good previously tanks us. Something is wrong behind the scenes, but we don't have near the information to say what that is.
The problems with the team touch on too many aspects of play to sum up to one easy answer. Yet dozens of posters have honed in on their one-easy answer and are harping on it ad nauseum. We've made dozens of changes over the last couple years since we were a perennial playoff team, but people randomly pick one change to zoom in on with no evidence that is the biggest contributing factor to our problems. People are throwing out trades of our best players with no discussion of how the trade will help or what they are trying to build toward? Addition through subtraction does work from time to time, but yo still need to replace the positive contributions and be sure of the negative ones.
I expected the team to struggle this year, and spend some time figuring a few things out. I obviously didn't expect it to be this awful. But its still possible to use this season as a jumping off point to fix problems. But we have to absolutely understand what the problems are first, and what direction we need to take the team to be successful. Nobody is really addressing those points outside of BS reasons to assign blame in the easiest manner possible for the dumbest reasons. "Tarasenko is not a Hall of Famer, trade him". "Pietrangelo doesn't pay for team dinner's strip the C from him", "Steen is over 30, take him out back and shoot him". "We don't have enough hits or fights, which is bad for reasons I won't say, trade for Reaves?" Ok, but do any of those moves alone in a vacuum help us play more consistently on Defense, offense, special teams and goaltending?
