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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
Revisionist history and more hyperbole on your part. Picks like Nemisz were criticized from day 1 by many - I'm always amazed when posters claim to have been these "lones voices in the wilderness" while the rest of the board was blind to reality. Every day on this site there is a wide variety of opinions about each and every player and prospect discussed.
But I suppose you can group "people like you" in terms of those that take the pessimistic viewpoint - and probably more often than not you will be right about a player - because more often than not prospects fail to become impact NHLers. The odds of becoming an impact player are very slim. Or to put it another way: the odds favor those that take the negative view. So if you want to pat yourself on the back about being right about Nemisz (Sven is too early to call) then I guess congrats. You projected that a late 20s pick didn't become an NHLer. Woot.
People here are well aware of what Johnny Hockey is and the long odds he has to over come - your concerns are hardly ground breaking or news. You've picked up on a couple of comments about Kane/Toews that are probably too optimistic and are suddenly using that to suggest that a lot of fans are blindly optimistic.
But the bigger point is this - sometimes it is fun as a fan to get excited. I'll take that any day of the week over someone who takes a crap over anyone who chooses to get fired up over a prospect like Gaudreau.
Sports is supposed to be fun.
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The name of this thread is "Expectations vs Reality." If the "reality" crowd isn't welcome to express their opinions, that should be made clear. Maybe a more explicit thread naming format would keep the excitement vs analysis posters on this site from annoying one another.