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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
Fact is, it's very easy to be right in sport if you always take the pessimistic view. Very few teams out of the 31 in the NHL have "successful seasons". The Stanley Cup winner, maybe the finalist if it's the first trip, and one or two surprise playoff teams. Chances are, if you take the negative route, you'll get to say "see, I told you so" every year, because even as teams have success, usually the expectations and yard sticks keep getting pushed out further and further. Being negative is a sure fire way to always get to say you were right.
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I was going to say something like this in the trade and speculation a.k.a Bennett is/isn't a bust thread. Where there have been significant X is bad/give X a chance debates in the past it has turned out that X is in fact bad more often than not. Is this because the X is bad folks have better judgement or just that sport is hard and failure is more normal than success?