Not sure what you mean by that. Most thought this team would not make the playoff's this year, were a bubble team at best. The Coyotes just gave us false hope when they were in first place earlier in the year, now we are acting and talking like they are a first place team that crashed and burned. I think with a better coach that crash and burn would not have been as bad and we would still be in the playoff hunt.
Huh?
Just noticed this now. Most everyone had us in the playoffs, including many prognosticators from outside forum 40 on ESPN, NHL.com, and the like. Our average points that was calculated in the season prediction thread was something like 96 or 97 points.
Obviously, we had done things to be a first place team. Do we make the trade for Hall if we were in 4th place in the Pacific in mid-December?
The false hope was that our coach was finally turning things around with the hot start, but then we became satisfied with what was done and didn't prepare for teams in the same ways. It is why we lost a bunch of 2 goal leads during the year. We still played the same way, whether up 1-0, up 4-0, down 2-1, or down 6-2. Can be a good thing, but we also need to conserve energy and figure out how to make the proper in-game adjustments.
Hall is supposed to help our team. If we did make the trade as a 4th place team, then I would expect the team to rise (or at least stay flat) to current productivity. Not get worse. If you are arguing about making the trade in the first place, well, we have never had a #1 OA pick and have been shut out in the draft lottery. Your team is playing the best that they have in a while, and you want to create separation from competitors. No reason not to do that trade. If we pick up Hall and immediately go on a decent point streak, let's say points in 8 straight games (a 5-0-3 record) would have actually given us an additional 7 points relative to what was picked up in that 8 game period of reference. Guess who is sitting 3rd in the Pacific with those 7 additional points? We would be a game back of Edmonton with 1 game in hand.
Do you pay attention to what you post, or do you just flip-flop on everything?