PoutineSp00nZ
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
Detroit and Buffalo are unremarkable teams that are majorly flawed, and Ottawa is in the exact same boat. Same for Montreal, Pittsburgh, NYI, Philly. All these teams are about equal.
They win a stretch of games and they are “figuring it out”, they lose a stretch of games and “they’re the worst in the league”.
Ottawa lost 5 in a row, then won 6 in a row, and now losing 6 in a row again. No good team does that. Good teams figure it out. Good teams don’t look back when they get in a playoff spot.
Buffalo was in a wildcard, lost 13 in a row, now 5-2-1 last 8 games.
Bottom line… all those teams are bad, really bad teams pacing around 80-84 points (teams pacing 80 points are BAD). The difference between a good and a bad team is consistency. None of these teams can win consistently. It’s all about winning 10 in a row and losing 15 in a row. This is why you see doomers threads and other “is this the year?” Threads in the same month. These teams don’t learn, quite simply, and don’t have enough pieces or a strong enough leadership to pull through.
None of these teams deserve to be in the playoffs and I would include the Bruins in that category.
All those teams are in the "figuring it out" stage. But that's gunna come with looking wildly different during stretches of the season. THe team that sucks less than its good,and can prove that over a full season is the team that will emerge from it. But until we can look back after a season and see more good than bad . .. you just don't know and there will always be questions.
Who the hell knows really.