I mean look at this team’s record over the past 8 seasons and look at all the shitty contracts they’ve handed out and the picks/prospects they’ve traded away despite sucking ass. You’d have to be delusional to be positive.
I didn’t post much back during the prime Sedin days but I highly doubt this place was filled with negativity back then.
There's also been a lot of kneejerk 'trade Petey, trade Hughes, trade Horvat' at the first sign of a slump, but people don't cop to those opinions, they slink away and pretend they never held them.
There were systemic problems with the way Benning ran the team, and lots of them. But he also did make a number of objectively good calls e.g. choosing Markstrom over Lack (which he was excoriated for on these boards btw) and then keeping Demko over Markstrom. His positive steps don't undo his errors, but this board more than anywhere else cannot even recognize the positives and decides that it must have been our white hat Judd Brackett forcing his hand, etc.
Just a great deal of intellectual dishonesty that is frequently couched in impoverished hockey knowledge.
Dickinson is the new whipping boy on this board so he can do no right to a great number of people.
Regarding his usage over Hoggy and Podz, have people noticed that often in the last few shifts of a game Dickinson will replace the weakest defensive player on one of our top two lines for a couple of shifts in the last 5 minutes (e.g. replacing Boeser on the lotto line)? Because on a slightly broader scale, that is what the ice time discrepancies were about this past game. In crunch time while trying to protect a lead coaches play players whom they trust defensively. They all do it, and you will lose the trust of your room if you don't, but it feels like a number of people have no understanding of that and are now smugly hating on the same coach they were complimenting two weeks ago.