Reading these posts reminds me of Sabres Facebook feed. There are people who fawn over plugs like Kaleta, Ellis, Scott. Players who while important in their own way don't drive W/L in the NHL. And then when the topic of a player like Connelly, who is you know.. "good at hockey" comes up they do nothing but slam the guy.
I don't understand. But there's a significant (possibly just vocal) portion of fans who'd rather praise a plug who they thought would score 5 goals a season who magically makes it to 8, and blast a player who can get 30 but doesn't hit.
This vocalization, in my opinion at least, has palpable effects on the players/team. And as fans shouldn't they be doing things to help the team they allegedly cheer for? When people take steps to run a player out of town it hurts not only their on ice performance but actually lowers their trade value as well. So if you're just interested in being pragmatic it doesn't make sense either.
I'm not suggesting that people don't have the right to make their opinion heard. Or that if they buy a ticket they can't boo if they want. Good for them, but it's childish and counter productive. Maybe I'm expecting too much from drunken whiner line callers.