What’s to judge? All teams are now in the mid season grind stage where they have up and down games. Yesterday The Stars, Wild and Avs all got hammered by teams below them points wise. We lost in OT to the top team in the Pacific. We actually improved our position and moved 1 game closer to the finish line.
It’s the case of classic tunnel vision. 82 games is allot of inventory for a humans to consume so most fans don’t pay much attention to other teams other than when we play them, scoreboard watching, or TSN highlight pancakes.
All teams have a variance in their play from period to period, game to game, week to week.
Two nights ago when we beat Boston 8-1 there were very few comments on our board about how Boston had an off night and played like ass.
The ability to play a full 60 minutes every night is a myth. Mostly because there are two teams on the ice both trying to win. Just go to other teams PGT’s after wins and losses and they say the same shit as us after wins and losses just insert different players names.
The refs have it out for their team, if they could only play a full 60 minutes every night, when they win by a blow out its what did there team do so well without considering the other team might have sucked. When things are going good the good times will never end, and when they are going bad the bad times will never end.
Jets are basically in first place in the league but the path to that spot in the standings has a story just like the 31 other teams path has a story. The novel is bound in leather, each team owns a copy, and the title is “What have you done for me lately”.