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Originally Posted by Jay Random
This here is the whole problem.
Hockey is not a morality play. Teams don't lose because they angered the hockey gods with their sinful ways. They don't win because Tinkerbell sprinkled them with goal dust for being such good boys in practice.
Whether they win or lose, there are reasons why this happens. There are no excuses, because there is nothing to excuse, unless one or more players obviously and persistently fail to do their jobs. (And we don't see a lot of people excusing that, anyway.) A reason is not the same thing as an excuse; but if you want to construct a neat little melodrama in which Virtue is Rewarded and Vice is Punished, you will get very angry whenever anybody merely analyses why a given outcome occurred – especially if the outcome is a loss.
If you want someone to blame after every single loss, don't blame the players or the coach. Blame yourself for thinking that as a fan, you have some sort of right to a win.
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Have another drink. What a useless post in a sports forum.