It's way worse, although not comparable. Players matter, fans don't.
Yeah, except if the opponent on winning the division had been something like detroit red wings, they magically would have put in far more effort. So what is this if not throwing?
People in the GDT on Tuesday said that the Panthers were also trying to lose to Toronto in order to play Toronto when they were down 2-0, and then stormed back to win. You don't know anything despite how much you want to think you do. It's like when people here claim that teams intentionally tank, as if professional athletes just don't try.
To me its pretty obvious. They wanted to avoid Tampa because Tampa always detorys them in the playoffs. They would rather take their chances against a team they historically own. Not rocket science to me. People will do everything in their power to make excuses for what is simple human nature.
I didn't say that a team wouldn't prefer what they would deem as a favourite match up, I'm saying that a team of professional athletes and their coaches wouldn't go out and intentionally lose two games for the chance to maybe secure that match up.why is it so hard to believe a team would prefer a favorable match up?
It's obvious the OP didn't watch the games either. While they definitely did not have 2 of their better games, each game saw numerous posts hit that would have otherwise changed the outcome of both games. They were just two really bad game that personally I'm hoping don't carry over into the playoffs. We're screwed if it does. No matter who they are playing.
that bugged me so much, even people at my work saying it like u know Florida is a good team right? they can for sure beat us. then what do u know. all the fans did doing that was got Florida fired up.
