That doesn’t even begin to explain why it’s perc that it’s only because of leaf hate, except for when they win a poll.
I was accused of being a leaf hater for voting Pettersson over Matthews by leaf fans, then accused of being a Canucks hater for voting Marner over Boeser and Nylander over Horvat.
Which one am I? The point is that when a poll goes someone’s way, the thought is “well, they only voted our way because it’s too obvious”, while a poll doesn’t go a persons way the thought is “they’re just hating on us”
It’s impossible to be both.
You might say I voted Pettersson over Matthews because I hate the leafs. But why didn’t I vote against them in the other two polls?
Canucks fans would feel the opposite.
It’s only because I hate. But I hate abs love different teams on different days, often contradicting each other? It’s only based from emotional rather than logical deduction.
Why can’t it just be that people have different opinions?
Well I would say you are just one vote.
But many times these very arguable polls tend to sway 70/30 against the Leaf players. When really the scores should be closer together.
And the rules for how we grade a Leaf player change to that of how we grade a non leaf player.
For example. In that other pole Matthews/Reilly vs Eichle/Dahlin the hypocracy that's all over that thread is that we are allowed to project Dhalin's future potential but we can't project Rielly's. Even though Rielly has done nothing but steadily improve every year and has taken a big step this year.
Reilly is currently looking at a 60-70 point season, is a +9, logs hard minutes and is a key point man on the PP. (how he gets a ton of his points)
He essentially RIGHT NOW, what we are projecting Dahlin to be. But clearly Dahlin is going to be better than Rielly. So I guess we are now suggesting that he's going to be greater than a 70 point defence man. We are gifting him that based off of potential.
We don't DARE gift Rielly that. Because? Cause he wasn't drafted first over all? Cause he's a Leaf? Cause he hasn't shown he could become that? Has Dahlin? Dahlin looks great for sure. Looks like he's gonna be a Rielly for sure. But we find that insulting to say because? Is it because to suggest that, we are now projecting a 70 point season for Rielly this year? Is that wrong? Why? Why can't you project a 70 point season for Rielly but we can for Dahlin?
Oh right! Double standard.
Rielly is currently what Dhalin strives to become. That's just facts based off of the numbers Rielly is currently putting up right now. People hate to say that because we've grown comfy on these boards with labeling Rielly a fringe 1d. And until he wins the norris he will always be a fringe 1d. So how dare we compare him to such a young raw talent in Dahlin.
So that's how we get a "Dahlin > Rielly AINEC" comments...which make me giggle. Either you are that stupid or your troll game is weak.
And this is just the most recent double standard I can directly point too. You see these idiotic non leaf vs leaf polls at least 3 times a week. I've very quickly learned not to take stock in them outside of gaining more respect for just how great the Leaf hate is around here.