OT: We Are Absolutely Finished

[Golden_Jet]

As someone who watched their grandmother starve to death from stomach cancer, and their grandfather die from multiple tumors his drunk of a doctor didn't bother looking for when he complained about pain for months, I don't find cancer in an of itself particularly funny topic, no. But I understand that people use humour as a coping mechanism, I have used that coping mechanism in the past and will in the future, and I won't sit here and say that when Grandma was hallucinating about ham and pineapple sandwiches floating around her hospital room, my family didn't find some humour in that to help us manage what an awful time it was for everyone as she spent her last days in a morphine haze. But I wouldn't think it's appropriate to make jokes about someone else having cancer. Do you understand the difference there?

Comedy is, at its most basic, a subjective thing. What one person finds funny, another may find offensive or inappropriate. And that's fine. It's OK man. Not everyone agrees with you. Comedians understand that is the line they walk every time they tell a joke that may be offensive.

Anyways, you've completely derailed this thread trying to justify a joke you didn't make that some people found inappropriate. If you have an opinion on whether our season is absolutely finished or not, that's great! Lets chat about it. But I won't spend my day going back and forth with you about what is and isn't funny. You've said your piece, I've heard you out, and we can leave it at that because this isn't the Comedy Forum Boards.

It was an absolutely terrible take.

 

[DackellDuck]

Ok, so we can't blame injuries, but the injuries piled up for 5 of the loses in those stretches.

So, when you isolate those same stretches before the injuries to Norris and Pinto happened,

10-3-2, a 120 pts pace
11-7-2, a 98 pts pace.

Pretty mediocre results, right?

So yeah. I think you can look at injures as the main culprit, I mean, that seemed pretty obvious before bothering to write out those numbers, but here we are.

First 29 games this year: 14-13-2 (85 pt pace)
Second 29 games this year: 15-12-2 (90 pt pace)

Like I said, you can isolate stretches of good play. But they always follow it up with a stretch of poor play that brings them back to mediocrity. There's no real reason to believe they'll hold it together for 25 games and play at a 98 or 100 pt pace for that long.

People have said that the second half of the season has been great, but when you look at it, it's barely been at the WC pace. So yeah they're still thoroughly mediocre and this 4 game losing streak may have done them in.

And every team deals with injuries. Most don't completely fall apart when a few guys get hurt. If you're waiting for this to be 25 game stretch where everyone is 100% healthy.... I don't know what to tell you...

We're an average team with multiple key players who have major durability issues and don't have any cap space or assets to bring in reinforcements. We can't even make call-ups, and even if we could, our call-ups are plugs. It's not a recipe for sustained success.

That's an honest assessment.

 

[DueDiligence]

See you guys next year.

What's the point of this nonsense?

 

[jbeck5]

Wrong again, French soldiers don’t have a sense of humour and don’t get jokes, don’t take me so seriously, it was a surrender joke that obviously hit to close to home but I am not sorry

Don't tell me how to take you.

 

[Tnuoc Alucard]

We're on a losing streak that coincides with being without Pinto, Norris and Tkachuk. Our future depends on getting healthy,

We are 2 pts back of Clb and 4 of Det, but play Clb four times, and Det twice to close the season, we still control our fate,

Pretty sure Columbus, Detroit , Rangers and Bruins also control Thier own fate……

 

[Back in Black]

See you guys next year.

SENS = See Everyone Next Season.

Buddy, your gonna miss a great month of Hockey. SENS play well when they play a lot, and this month is a full schedule.

Playoffs, here we come.

 

[Micklebot]

Pretty sure Columbus, Detroit , Rangers and Bruins also control Thier own fate……

Sure, you point being? Mine was that it's premature to say we're finished.