Yes absolutely. I’m just saying we like to dive in head first into the koolaid so some breaks on the hype train probably don’t hurt either. The lot of you sing a different tune after round for 4 years in a row and then 20 games in go back to your usual selves. Weird way of life for me personally.
I never did that. Just because I don’t blindly worship everything the team ever does is not evidence of that. And it’s not about me deciding arbitrarily. The Canadian teams are not as good as the top American teams. It’s okay to enjoy this, but it’s important to remember that we never questioned whether they can do well against these teams. It’s just the reality of the situation that the current regular season is not representative of a standard regular season and favours the Leafs strengths and weaknesses. Now they’re making the most of it and they deserve credit for that and I haven’t said they don’t. But for those of us who don’t like to drink Koolaid every year I think context can’t hurt either.So you ignore all legitimate context and quality of competition impacts for years to consistently bash the team and everything associated with it, but now, when we're completely dominating, you've arbitrarily decided our opposition just sucks and nothing we do counts, based on absolutely nothing.
I 100% agree with this. Let’s hope for Andy 2.0 in the playoffs (I sound like Conor McGregor fans saying this 2.0 shit)
You've done exactly that.
It is about you deciding arbitrarily. There is zero evidence that our division is any weaker than any other division. It is pure fantasy of those who dislike and wish to discredit the teams and players doing well. The style of teams you discuss are also present within this division.
Lots of people questioned it, before we started dominating. Now suddenly it was supposedly inevitable, and worth nothing. If the only teams we have difficulty with are the elite of the elite teams (and we take even them to the limit with worse versions of this team), then we are undeniably a cup contender.
Okay no one cares about what a Bruins fan thinks rn. Ofc you’re on board. If you’re concerned with this with your own playoff run going that’s kinda sad too. You guys aren’t much better of a fan base either tbh.
I would love for the team to win not that it would make losing 3 to the Habs impressive. I’m not going to bet on it though. I just want some fans to stop acting like complete clowns year in and year out and responding to any criticism of the team with an irrational illogical hot take equivalent to you must not be a fan or are never happy and accept that fandom manifests in different ways. Look at the clown a few posts above who finds the need to respond to every single f***ing reply ad nauseam who claimed this team is “undeniably a cup contender” despite no evidence of it aside from cherry picked stats. People like that suck the energy out of the forum not people who want open ended discussion grounded in some rationality and not blind faith at the level of a golden retriever lol. What this attitude among this fan base does which involves seriously overrating the players and the team, is it puts undue pressure on the team and unfairly inflated the players ego/belief of how good they are and they end up making ridiculous contract demands their peers don’t and are willing to sit out until those requests are obliged. That’s my angle.
