Jimmy Firecracker
Fire Sheldon.
Now I wasn’t alive during the 80’s, the most I can glean from how bad that era was are horror stories from old people alive who actively watched the team and looking back at stats. It’s no secret that Harold Ballard was a curse on this franchise.
However, the 2010’s now have to rank up there as one of the most pathetic decades for a professional hockey team. With our elimination yesterday, we’ll have gone the whole decade without one playoff series win. I THINK only one other team can make that claim to shame (pretty sure I read us and one other team, can’t remember).
The late 2000’s had bad times but at least the early part of the decade had a few good runs. Same with the early 90’s, and there was also one more added run in ‘99.
Again, I really can’t properly compare the ‘80s and ‘10s, but I have to imagine it’s close. We got to watch this franchise give up two very high draft picks at the start, witnessed a historic playoff collapse, and while the latter part of the decade has yielded some fantastic young talent, they couldn’t do much of anything in the playoffs, maybe they will in the ‘20s.
So yeah, I guess for people who were there (and anyone who want but still feels like they can chime in) which decade was worse for this franchise?
However, the 2010’s now have to rank up there as one of the most pathetic decades for a professional hockey team. With our elimination yesterday, we’ll have gone the whole decade without one playoff series win. I THINK only one other team can make that claim to shame (pretty sure I read us and one other team, can’t remember).
The late 2000’s had bad times but at least the early part of the decade had a few good runs. Same with the early 90’s, and there was also one more added run in ‘99.
Again, I really can’t properly compare the ‘80s and ‘10s, but I have to imagine it’s close. We got to watch this franchise give up two very high draft picks at the start, witnessed a historic playoff collapse, and while the latter part of the decade has yielded some fantastic young talent, they couldn’t do much of anything in the playoffs, maybe they will in the ‘20s.
So yeah, I guess for people who were there (and anyone who want but still feels like they can chime in) which decade was worse for this franchise?
