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Originally Posted by Textcritic
But at the end of the season how do we determine WHICH of the two points lost are the ones which held the team out of the playoffs? Moreover, if the team happens to win their next five, or seven of the next 10, then I expect no one will care that they dropped Game #1. It's all pretty relative, and it is a long season. I think the message here is that losing the first game sucks, but it's not something over which to fret too badly.
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I guess I'll just disagree, if they miss the playoffs they'll for sure be looking at a game like this against a clearly inferior team and a team that's likely finishing bottom five. These are the games you have to win.
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I don't see a single poster here who has said losing Game #1 is "acceptable." But what a number of posters are saying is that while losing the first game is not ideal it is not at all indicative of how the rest of the season will unfold.
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Maybe acceptable is not the right word but what I mean is there are clearly people are wiping the loss under a rug because "they always lose the opener". This makes no sense. It's still the same two points you get from any game.
Oh well, hopefully they make it so that this discussion is all meaningless.