[Morreale]_Juste un rappel : Les Hurricanes étaient des prétendants légitimes à la coupe Stanley au début de la saison ; choisi par beaucoup pour même tout gagner… Les Diables ? L’espoir de simplement se battre pour une place en séries éliminatoires…
Just a reminder:
The Hurricanes were legitimate Stanley Cup contenders at the start of the season; picked by many to even win it all …The Devils? The hope of just challenging for a postseason berth …
— Mike Morreale (@mikemorrealeNHL) May 6, 2023
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Devil_Dane
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And then we went and kept pace with them all year, finishing with one of the best records in the league and fantastic analytics. I’m not pissed we dropped two games to the Canes, I am pissed the offense has disappeared under the spotlight and we have regularly looked totally lost in about half of our post season games. Expectations shifted about midway through the season, I just want us to stop getting our shit pushed in.
Yes BUT, we did better and ended 1 pt behind them. We don’t suddenly get a pass when we regress to a postseason contender… truth is this young team is shot, Timo has the worst puck luck and our G situation is far from resolved. Call it what it is… you can poke a million holes in Graves, Seigs, Dougie, and Sevos games as well… and now they’ll win three in a row and I’ll completely change my tune
You can’t compare a perennial top team in the league who has gone through a lot of trials in the post season with a team that has been in its second playoffs since 2012, just because they finished 1 pt behind the former team. Seriously. Teams learn to win. Is it frustrating that it looks like we don’t know how to enter the o zone at times? Yeah. But Jack is 21 and looks like he’s been stifled in the post season. He’s going to have to learn how to be who he is in the playoffs. Expectations should not have shifted just because we overachieved this season
Think it’s pretty nonsensical to constantly call back to preseason when the season has changed everything. In the big picture we’ll get over it if we continue to get blown out by Hurricanes and lose the series, but right now it’s perfectly fine to be beyond frustrated by how harshly spanked we’re getting. It would be a whole another thing if we were still losing, but we’d be in the games, but constant blow outs? I don’t know how it doesn’t demoralize you.