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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This is not true. McPhee's draft selections were panned by a number of pretentious fans and a few in the media, but otherwise outside opinions were fairly strong that he made astute player acquisitions and deals, and handled the whole process very well.
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“Pretentious fans”... You have dialed it up a notch lately, how come? Not slamming you here, just thinking a mod on a fan site would have a higher opinion of fans in general.
What I recall is people wondering why McPhee overloaded on D. Those who thought he did a good job believed that he had made some good moves for the future, vs. being even sneaky good this year.
Anyway no expansion team in my memory has had a goalie play this well. And in the NHL, that can mean instant contender.
In another note, everyone seems to be talking a lot about playing with a chip on their shoulder because they are a team of castoffs. How is that different than every single expansion team in the history of sports? That hasn’t seemed to make such a difference before.