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Originally Posted by Table 5
I certainly never had that feeling. I was just happy as bananas to see them get in the playoffs. Expectations were 0 for me until we beat Detroit.
In 2004, it was such a foreign concept to be in the playoffs, I had no idea how they would do. The last few years of playoffs in comparison however, expectations going in were negative. You just knew they would never get past the 1st.
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True, that 5-2 loss was still "well we're still in the playoffs, this is awesome" but I thought there was this real never-say-die unification on that team that even though we didn't have the talent of the Canucks, I thought we had that winning attitude... but maybe just cause I was used to losing and Darryl really had that team believing in themselves.
But I have to think Darryl knew exactly which guys he wanted; i.e. he went out of his way to target Rhett Warraner, Stephane Yelle, Marcus Nilson in particular (also Chris Simon was particularly targetted).
I don't get that feel with Feaster... the one guy he particularly targeted that I thought was right was Hudler, just makes a lot of sense and went in the right direction. (a bit expensive though). As it turns out, Wideman seems to be a great addition, though his contract is a bit heavy too.