BonHoonLayneCornell
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I'm adding some disappointments just for fun and I have this season pretty damn low, basically at the bottom. It's frustrating, but it's just more of the same that we've basically become accustomed to under Dorion, not some big rollercoaster where I feel like my emotions are a wreck. I rank them in order of...
2002-03 - This was our best shot we ever had imo and I can never be convinced otherwise. f*** Jeff Friesen.
2005-06 - Lost Hasek season. With him in net, THIS would have been our best chance ever imo. I never had faith in Emery from the beginning. How could you really with such a stark drop off from the legend.
2016-17 - Yes, this was a Cinderella run, but 1 goal away from the Finals in double OT and I liked our chances against Nashville better than I did against Anaheim in 06-07.
2006-07 - Made it to the finals in a bit of a breeze. Unfortunately, I never liked our chances against Anaheim, especially with Emery as our starter. I'd basically prepared myself before the series started.
2003-04 - Tough Lalime goals in the year we were finally supposed to beat them. Then we had to live down never beating the Leafs. I might have taken a game 7 win over a Stanley Cup still to this day.
2017-18 - I didn't have a ton of hope for this team knowing Karlsson's status and some detractions from the roster, but I didn't know we were heading in to such a dark timeline after. Painful realization that everyone was leaving and we were in for at least half a decade of garbage hockey. Melnyk reality still looming killing faith in said rebuild plan.
2023-24 - Long painful rebuild realized as a failure and needing major surgery. But I'm not feeling attached to it, and always thought the guys behind it were making too many mistakes, so as disappointing as it is, I don't find it overly surprising.
Hell, I would even rank some other seasons above this one. The Hamburgler season fell flat pretty quickly after making it in. I drank the kool-aid pretty hard and was more disappointed then. Same with the year we acquired Sutton/Cullen, thought we were ready to do serious damage. 2007-08 was pretty gut wrenching too. I was so against the way the Dorion/Melnyk regime operated that I don't feel attached to the team they built. I still want success for them, but there's a bit of an "I told you so element" to the current situation that's kept me detached. That and sometimes these are just moments that can't be re-created. 39 year old me just doesn't care like 18 year old me did, so it's impossible to be as disappointed really. You get old enough and you realize these things don't actually matter as much as you thought they did.
2002-03 - This was our best shot we ever had imo and I can never be convinced otherwise. f*** Jeff Friesen.
2005-06 - Lost Hasek season. With him in net, THIS would have been our best chance ever imo. I never had faith in Emery from the beginning. How could you really with such a stark drop off from the legend.
2016-17 - Yes, this was a Cinderella run, but 1 goal away from the Finals in double OT and I liked our chances against Nashville better than I did against Anaheim in 06-07.
2006-07 - Made it to the finals in a bit of a breeze. Unfortunately, I never liked our chances against Anaheim, especially with Emery as our starter. I'd basically prepared myself before the series started.
2003-04 - Tough Lalime goals in the year we were finally supposed to beat them. Then we had to live down never beating the Leafs. I might have taken a game 7 win over a Stanley Cup still to this day.
2017-18 - I didn't have a ton of hope for this team knowing Karlsson's status and some detractions from the roster, but I didn't know we were heading in to such a dark timeline after. Painful realization that everyone was leaving and we were in for at least half a decade of garbage hockey. Melnyk reality still looming killing faith in said rebuild plan.
2023-24 - Long painful rebuild realized as a failure and needing major surgery. But I'm not feeling attached to it, and always thought the guys behind it were making too many mistakes, so as disappointing as it is, I don't find it overly surprising.
Hell, I would even rank some other seasons above this one. The Hamburgler season fell flat pretty quickly after making it in. I drank the kool-aid pretty hard and was more disappointed then. Same with the year we acquired Sutton/Cullen, thought we were ready to do serious damage. 2007-08 was pretty gut wrenching too. I was so against the way the Dorion/Melnyk regime operated that I don't feel attached to the team they built. I still want success for them, but there's a bit of an "I told you so element" to the current situation that's kept me detached. That and sometimes these are just moments that can't be re-created. 39 year old me just doesn't care like 18 year old me did, so it's impossible to be as disappointed really. You get old enough and you realize these things don't actually matter as much as you thought they did.
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