Him and Draisitl are the only positive things to come out of this season.
2 whole players played above expectations this year.....2...... god we suck balls... majorly suck balls.
I wouldn't go quite that far. I'm pretty sure we could say McDavid is outdoing the expectations. We expected good, but he's producing at Top 5 in NHL level already despite just getting used to the league and facing a 3 month injury. Purcell has also outperformed expectations (even though expectations were press box material). Many others have performed at least close to expectations.
I really don't know how to describe this year. There really aren't many players outside than Schultz, Lander and maybe Fayne (for some people) that have had significantly worse than expected years, yet here we are in last place again. The fact that there haven't a major amount of belly flops by key players speaks to how far away this lineup truly was.