yea it is pretty clear that this roster is a wild card team. i dont think u could find an nhl analyst in the world that has us finishing even 3rd in the division this year. I actually do think its possible we could finish 3rd over boston (however unlikely) but we would not make it out of the first round against the clearly superior teams we have in the top 4 of the east. its interesting that u say all i do is crap on the team, since all theyve ever done is crap on us in return. it would seem that the scope on my crap gun is properly calibrated and yours is malfunctioning. it would be one thing if all i ever did was ***** and moan while the team went on to be a smashing success. i find it extraordinarily bizarre that anyone could judge me for complaining about the longest active playoff series winless streak in the nhl and the fewest amount of playoff appearances of any team at all over the last 25 years of the panthers existence. i can very easily make the case that the panthers are the worst franchise in nhl history, let alone just bad enough to complain about. and sorry but no, ur solution of rooting for someone else doesnt work as im not a traitor. thats like saying if u dont like the direction your country is going, just move away instead of trying to help push it back in the right direction like an actual patriot. complaining about a never ending ****ty product is called normal. its immensely abnormal to accept what we have witnessed the past 25 years. The second i see any glimmer of hope that it has changed, id be the first to be ecstatic.....but i dont. theres just not enough star power on this team to go anywhere. its just what is. the fact u cant see it year after year while ive accurately predicted it and been rightfully pissed about it every single time should give u pause.
All I see is:
-A bunch of words, because someone obviously doesn’t know what a paragraph is.
-A bunch of whining about the teams history, which has ZERO relevance in a thread about the Panthers 2018 off-season.
-Someone so full of himself because he predicted blah blah blah...whoopdie doo.
First off, don’t give me this crap about how I don’t see anything with this team. I’ve lived through it mister know-it-all. I’ve been a fan since 93. I was 10 rows up from the Lindsay goal. I waited on line from midnight on at Marshall’s to get tickets to the SC Finals, only to be cheated out on them. I was a season ticket holder from 2000-2008, witnessing some of our worst years in our history, hoping that the team would make the playoffs with those yearly hot March runs that they would have, only to fall short. And now, for every game that starts at 7pm, I get up at 2am to watch my team play. So I saw, and see, everything.
I saw/see that you don’t need only “star power” to win in this league. You need a lot of things going for you at the right time, to make the hardest playoff run in sports. It’s never about who is the best team, or who has the most star power, it’s about getting hot at the right time, its about being healthy, and of course, being lucky as well. This team is talented enough to get in, and talented enough to compete with any team once they get in.
This team might not satisfy your “star power” filling, but if you can’t see that this is the most talented team the Panthers will ever ice, then you can’t see s**t. And going by what you say, how you can’t see a glimmer of hope, I question how long you’ve even been a Panther fan, because this team, this roster that is playing in the NHL, and the prospects right around the corner, gives us more hope than any other time in our 25 year history.
There are few teams in the league that can ice a better top six than us. There might be teams with better "star power" in there top six, but from spot one to spot six, few teams can match our offense. And while there are players who we would like to see gone from the bottom six, there is enough talent for Boughner to choose from, to make our bottom six quite formidable. Im sure a lot of fans would love to have on their team the talent that we will be rocking with in the bottom six. We have the chance to have three legit scoring lines, and depending on how Boughner puts them together, each line will have a capable 20+ goal scorer or two. That is what you would call depth.
Are there holes in this team? Absolutely. Would I like to see an addition to our second pairing D? Of course. Am I nervous about our goaltenders health? Yes, it’s the most important piece to our lineup. Our goalies health will be the reason why we make or miss the playoffs, unless we get hit with serious injuries upfront (knock on wood).