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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
Of course I'd be pleased with improvement. I still cheer and get excited when this team wins. When they tied the game last minute and won in OT against Boston last week I was super stoked. Should our team show great progression, Enroth stand on his head all year, Myers look like a Norris winning defensemen, and our rookies play out of their mind to challenge for a playoff spot, that would be just grand. But all that coming together is very unlikely -- and if we're going to be that bad, next year is the year to do it.
I will always cheer for my team to win and be successful, and if we start the season strong I'll be totally into it. But at a certain point in the season you stop being disappointed about losses and start thinking of that top draft pick.
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I absolutely agree with that point. For me, that point is somewhere after the trade deadline, when you're 10-15 points back of a playoff spot and the writing is on the wall. For you, it's apparently 8 months before Game 1 of the regular season.
I don't mean to give you a hard time in particular, but you're in a similar boat as Flames fans here. McDavid is a nice consolation prize for being an awful team, but the idea of getting McDavid doesn't excite me, it disappoints me. Yeah, it'd be nice to have him, but the line for me isn't getting him if "things fall into place," it's getting him if things go horribly wrong.