What is your excitement level for 24/25 season ?

[koteka]

You understand the team is better now than it has been, in years, right??

Yup. I have been busy with other things. We aren’t making the playoffs. I am peeking in now and then, but I haven’t sat down to watch an entire game yet this season. I have also watched fewer college football games this season. I am probably up on the amount of NFL I have watched. I got on the Justin Fields train even though I usually hate the Steelers. That is over now and I didn’t watch any of the NFL last weekend.

 

[thebus88]

Yup. I have been busy with other things. We aren’t making the playoffs. I am peeking in now and then, but I haven’t sat down to watch an entire game yet this season. I have also watched fewer college football games this season. I am probably up on the amount of NFL I have watched. I got on the Justin Fields train even though I usually hate the Steelers. That is over now and I didn’t watch any of the NFL last weekend.

Uhh….well no wonder you’re as negative as you are about the team right now. It’s not like it has been, I promise, sit down and watch a damn game. If you’re up tonight, watch a game with the trooo fans against SJ like old times. We could get a new goalie tomorrow for f***s sake.

f*** football.

 

[koteka]

Uhh….well no wonder you’re as negative as you are about the team right now. It’s not like it has been, I promise, sit down and watch a damn game. If you’re up tonight, watch a game with the trooo fans against SJ like old times. We could get a new goalie tomorrow for f***s sake.

f*** football.

I am actually pretty positive about the team long term. I think people are getting unrealistic about this season. I think people are overrating the start. Teams will react to us. Teams will figure out how to counter attack.

One thing I have learned from football is an upstart team can look pretty good. Then they play against a team with a tactician for a head coach (or defense coordinator) who will figure out how to scheme against the team. Other teams will copy what was successful against the upstart team. So you can have a team that starts the season maybe 6-0 and look really good but finish 8-4 and look mediocre. All it took was one game to show some weaknesses.

 

[koteka]

Here we are about 15 games into the season. It is too early to say some team is a playoff lock or out of it, but I see the Eastern Conference dividing itself into 3 groups:

Contenders - Hurricanes, Panthers, Rangers, Capitals (surprise), Leafs, and Devils

Middle of the pack - Lightning, Bruins, Sabres, Islanders, Senators, Wings, Pens, Jackets

Falling behind - Flyers, Canadiens

There are 8 teams in the range of 2 points under Bettman .500 and 1 point over Bettman .500. We are one of those 8 teams.

Last season at this point we were 4-7-3 for 11 points, and we were on game 4 of a 9 game losing streak.

This season we are 5-7-2 and just lost our 5th straight. Time to win a couple of games, boys.

We have already shut a team out, which didn’t happen until January last season.