Why put lipstick on a pig? The offseason is a wasteland as a Bruins fan where all we have is counting down to the start of the next season
I think you are perhaps downplaying your own emotions and perceptional bias. Most teams don't pull off miracles during the offseason.
The competition in the UFA market inevitably results in loads of overpaid high-end players and fans who can't understand why their teams didn't "do more" given the cap space they had. Draft picks, aside from those who pick at the top, take time and more often than not, don't make an impact. Rarely do you get miracle trades (the one that pops to mind presently is the Huberdeau/Tkachuk trade where, at the time, many people thought Calgary was getting better end of the deal).
As much as we don't like to admit it, none of this is as predictable as our minds want to tell us. Or straightforward in terms of how to manage. Edmonton was an abject failure of an organization for years (up until as recently as a few months ago) and now they're two wins from a miracle comeback to win the Stanley Cup. Loads of their own fans were talking about how their GM and their FO sucked, and would never win anything with that goaltender, and now look where we are.
Perpetual negativity is far from a realist view of how things actually work.
