Enough of the "we lost to the Penguins farm system" ****. ****. This board is the most aggravating place sometimes.
For the last 2 weeks all you read on here are people complaining about lack of progress. Lack of team identity. Lack of desire from the players to win. Etc.
You can't fix every problem over night, and every problem that is solved over night must have a faulty solution because things don't just happen that way.
We made progress these last 2 games. When was the last time this team came back in a game late in the 3rd? Probably hadn't happened this season until the Calgary game. They did it again tonight.
Calgary a lottery team? If they were in the Metro division they'd be 4 points out of the playoffs. They're 5-4-1 in their last 10.
Penguins farm system ********? Does that mean that 10/11 of the last teams they've played have been beaten by their scrub ass farm system too? Enough. This argument is invalid. We beat a relatively healthy Penguins team earlier in the season. We lost to a relatively banged up one now. Injured players or not, whoever they put out there fits in a system. It's a very ****ing successful system, and they've now had a sample size of what 5 years with Bylsma? Countless injuries, they keep plugging in and finding success. Losing to them tonight is no shame, no disgrace.
So we've shown resilience, which is a measurement of character. The identity is improving, incrementally. No one should expect some sort of exponentially positive shift. That **** just doesn't happen and if those are your standards then i'm sorry to break it to you but they're not going to be fulfilled... ever.
2 straight games isn't the norm, but it's a start and every team needs to start somewhere. There needs to be a spark, a connection for the guys to want to fight game in and game out for each other. Baby steps. Suddenly, this accomplishment is moot? Disregarded and irrelevant because the majority of this board wants to ***** and whine some more?
Do we have a lot of problems? Yes. We need more talent. We need more youth. We need a team identity. But these problems aren't going away instantaneously. No trades have been made. No players waived. No coaching changes.
So what can we judge the improvement on the team on? How about the only things we can. Character, will to win, compete level, chemistry. All of these have improved in the last 2 games, even if slightly. It's a step in the right direction.
