Well I apologize if I got a bit personal, but I am thoroughly over the nonchalance fans all over the league have towards regular season success. There are 26 teams every year that don't make the conference finals, 28 that don't advance to the finals, and 29 that don't win it all. Suggesting that we are simply "above average" in being one of the top teams in the conference and the division, both of which are among the strongest you'll find in this league is...not to get personal again, asinine. I really have no other word for it. Above average AT BEST, is a team that manages to secure home ice. Though by my interpretation, above average is a team making it in through a challenging Western conference by means of a wild card seeding. Or for another example, lets just say Colorado is at the present time "above average". They certainly had a high finish but haven't been consistently good enough for long enough to merit being labelled one of the West's better teams or even elite. Since Boudreau's takeover, regardless of what that's spelled for us in the playoffs, our win-loss-otl record is elite by the standards of the rest of the NHL. I think that's pretty well above average by now. So yes, I am a fan of being better than most teams over the course of a grueling 82 games. I'm not a fan of playoff failures, but I'm not sitting there and thinking that my team is only a little above middle of the pack because they didn't manage to do what some teams need several decades to do or haven't done period. We aren't management. Expecting perfection and flawless hockey of our team will bear literally zero results on the on ice product and it does far more self harm than good when perfection isn't achieved. And we don't have a long enough history of winning to merit having such lofty expectations year after year.