Official Tank Thread

[morhilane]

Yeah, we're 8 pts back now. To make that up we'd have to go on a streak this team seems completely incapable of, especially considering they haven't won more than 2 consecutive games.

Last week, we were only 3 pts back, but in our last 5 games we went 1-3-1. That killed any notion of being "in the mix" this year unless we're talking about 1st overall.

The win and OT was when Matheson wasn't playing.

The Habs haven't been able to win more than three in a rows since they acquired Matheson.

Three games seems to be the max Matheson can play well in a row, but this year every 4 games he's extra bad.

 

[ReHabs]

Patience is a skill that isn't being taught anymore and it shows.

High standards and high expectations are not a cultural value any more and it shows.

Despite the prevailing cultural winds, there is actually nothing wrong with virtuous appeals to being better than yesterday and constantly improving. It's a hidden secret but it's in plain sight -- our society doesn't highlight appeals to greatness but it doesn't mean greatness is somehow less valuable or worthwhile.

In fact the best possible practice for a rebuilding team that has a blank slate is to insist on iterative and constant improvement, have metrics and try to beat them, engage with players and coaches to cycle up. This season: we've seen regression, stagnation, more mistakes, and a decline in morale. Chastising everyone that it's normal in a rebuild and we should simply be patient when the stakeholders involved have not made any attempt to change anything about their process is hard to tolerate and swallow for people who know better.

I work in this field, I would lose my clients if I gave them worse results YoY but insisted that I've actually been building capacity even though I didn't change anything about my approach YoY. At the very least it requires deeper evaluation and thoughtfulness to see what's really happening under the hood.

Rebuilding team sells workhorse veteran players and has worse performances as a direct result? Tolerable. Rebuilding team has many young players regress YoY? Not tolerable.