Much of it is venting, because we secretly know that nobody truly in power has the slightest compunction to truly hear us out. It's also throwing crap at the wall because we live in a state where there is a news vacuum about hockey - there are really only two types of reporters here, the shills or those who could care less about the game. So we indulge ourselves to fill the gap.
For example, with the Babcock signing by Toronto today, I had this brief fantasy that Tippett would say to himself, "Well, golly! Coaching the Red Wings. That would be a lark!" and then Don Maloney would say, "Well, if Dave wants to go to Hockeytown, maybe this Blashill guy could come in and helm our rebuild!"
There's no way on this planet something that awesome would happen but it was nice to think about in this lull between Stanley Cup Playoff games, TSN articles about our team's always-imminent demise, the nerves about the upcoming draft, and the nagging feeling that all of the talk coming out of Maloney's mouth about next season (rebuild? reload? repeat last year?) is a presage to another underwhelming and pathetic team for 2015-2016.
Hell, isn't that kind of stuff what Internet message boards are for?