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.

 

[ColinM]

Hey look, tomorrow its March and they are playing meaningful hockey. In a strange way this makes me optimistic as meaningful games in March was my start of year prediction.

Inspite of the the losing streak I think they will still be in the playoff hunt 30 days from now. In a small way that still makes the season worthwhile.

 

[GCK]

Not funny, or appropriate.

It’s a joke.

 

[Mr Hat]

I don’t care how they are playing today. I care about how they are playing April 9 when the playoffs start

But I wish these boards could kick off all the sandbaggers and ass draggin’ fans at 11pm on April 7 when we find out our playoff opponent is so we believers dont have to listen to these sucks limp takes about a team they have no faith in. Weaklings and suckholes all of you and you know who you are.

I don’t care how well the team plays April 7th when they are 10 pts out of the race and Brady’s best 4 games were for a different squad.

They can play exceptional at the golf course where you and the other cheerleaders can continue to support them despite results.

It’s like continuing to pump up a leaking tire expecting it to hold under pressure and calling everyone a suckhole when the duct tape doesn’t hold.

But yeah let’s kick off the fans who don’t agree with me so we can live in an echo chamber who celebrates 9th place after a 7 year rebuild as some type of achievement. Fantastic idea.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

How anybody could joke at a time like this is beyond me. We're 4 points out of a playoff spot.

 

[PlayOn]

So many crystal balls in here.

On one hand we are for sure making the playoffs and on April 7th we will find out who our opponent is, and if you disagree you’re a weakling and a suckhole.

On the other hand we are going to be 10 pts out of a playoff spot on April 7th.

So glad we’ve cleared that up! No point in even watching the games.

 

[Tuna99]

I don’t care how well the team plays April 7th when they are 10 pts out of the race and Brady’s best 4 games were for a different squad.

They can play exceptional at the golf course where you and the other cheerleaders can continue to support them despite results.

It’s like continuing to pump up a leaking tire expecting it to hold under pressure and calling everyone a suckhole when the duct tape doesn’t hold.

But yeah let’s kick off the fans who don’t agree with me so we can live in an echo chamber who celebrates 9th place after a 7 year rebuild as some type of achievement. Fantastic idea.

I don’t think they are a leaky tire - I think you are a dude that goes to a massive wedding buffet but you only focus on the one dish you don’t like, instead of all the other yummy food you could celebrate

Echo chamber - what echo chamber?? Mostly what I see about the Sens is fans like you jumping ship and surrender like the French army before the fight is over.

Stay optimistic, these players and coaches at least deserve that

 

[guyzeur]

See you guys next year.

Who is/are the Looser(s)? That is the question!

I'm so evil

 

[Blotto71]

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,

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

With them getting healthy, maybe there's a chance they claw back here. Last few games felt like guaranteed losses with the forward roster that had to be rolled out. Time to put up or shut up.

 

[HoweHullOrr]

With them getting healthy, maybe there's a chance they claw back here. Last few games felt like guaranteed losses with the forward roster that had to be rolled out. Time to put up or shut up.

Yes, got to hope that we get on a roll now with injured players returning & some of the teams that we need to leap frog start to falter.

 

[Erik Alfredsson]

I think you should probably voice your concerns on the main board.

 

[Micklebot]

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.

Here's what you said:

This team has been mediocre for two months now, and you can't just blame injuries.

I called bullshit on that, because it is straight up not honest.

We just had a 5 game losing streak where we lost both Pinto and Norris, plus Tkachuk for two of the 5. That's clearly a stretch where yes, you can blame injuries. To suggest otherwise is just about as intellectually dishonest as it gets.

The every team deals with injuries claim is just as disingenuous, it's willful ignorance of the impact injuries can have. Nobody is waiting for the team to be 100% healthy, that's a strawman, but having over 20 mil in roster players in the pressbox is going to have an impact on the on ice product, to suggest otherwise is absurd. The impact is compounded when you have it concentrated in one position, for us at Center.

The two months prior to that, we went 19-8-2, a 113 pts pace. We very clearly were not playing mediocre for two months, again, straight up dishonesty to suggest that. We played poorly for a 5 game stretch when key players all went out at the same time

This isn't isolating good stretches, it's responding to a misleading claim that's clearly wrong with the facts.

Wrt to the claim of durability issues, Pinto has one major injury in his career, he played every game he was eligible for the last two seasons. Not exactly sure where durability issues is coming from. Norris certainly had issues with his shoulder, but outside of that hasn't missed a lot of time over his career, and his current injury has nothing to do with his shoulder, nor does his shoulder seem to be problematic anymore. Time will tell I suppose, but it's one thing to be concerned if his shoulder will hold up, it's another to claim he's got durability issues. Now, if you said Chabot had durability issues, I'd agree.

 

[Tuna99]

I don’t care how well the team plays April 7th when they are 10 pts out of the race and Brady’s best 4 games were for a different squad.

They can play exceptional at the golf course where you and the other cheerleaders can continue to support them despite results.

It’s like continuing to pump up a leaking tire expecting it to hold under pressure and calling everyone a suckhole when the duct tape doesn’t hold.

But yeah let’s kick off the fans who don’t agree with me so we can live in an echo chamber who celebrates 9th place after a 7 year rebuild as some type of achievement. Fantastic idea.

You jumped off the bandwagon so hard even Leaves fans are like “Jesus man, take it easy”

Anyways, in This case, it will be good your take is so wrong because it means you will have playoff hockey and not whatever drivel you’ve written above that will be sent to the dustbin of bad takes