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Originally Posted by J epworth kendal
Or, people who have optimism after 6 games have seen a team that has outplayed it's opponent 4 out of those 6 games, and was 2 coin flips away from being 3-3 to start the season with a new coach and new system. I said before that I won't throw this team under the bus or put them on a pedestal until I see where they are at after 10 games, but so far, I see a team that is very much improved from the last 3 years, and losing these games early are all about living through growing pains and working their way through this process. 6 games do not make a season. If we get to 10 games and we still only have 1 regulation win, then yes, everyone will be very concerned and for good reason. Just stay sane until we get a large enough sample size that we can objectively evaluate this team. While you're at it, it's much more fun to be an optimist than a pessimist.
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Fair we have a new coach and new system, but the key players on this team are really still the same group they have bee for the past 3 years. The nucleous of this team is very much the same as the one that failed to make the playoffs the past 3 years, so I'd say giving them a clean slate to start the season is very much the definition of "blind faith" at the moment.
As the season moves on, should we start to see this team win these games and consistently dominate games (while getting the wins) they way they have, then I'd say it would be more than reasonable to start to shift the thinking about what this team could do.
But for now, to suggest that anyone should be thinking this is just more of the same old crew led by Iginla, Kipper and J-Bow not finding a way to get it done is more than fair, and would likely be the best use of the data available to us.
I'm hopeful, that the coaching changes and the additions of the likes of Hudler, Wideman and Cervenka could maybe be enough to turn the team around, but for now, those changes don't hit to the core of this team enough to simply ignore any data and experience we have with this group from the past few seasons. I guess the point is, looking at the 6 game sample size right now as if it's all that matters, likely isn't fair for this team, they aren't changed or young enough for that to be the case.