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Originally Posted by MillerTime GFG
Yea that’s not what I am, though I get what you’re saying. I still follow prospects, the draft, and watch most games. However, when I watch the games, I don’t get too invested. They’re not worth my personal investment. The mental attrition over the years has been too much.
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Isn’t that just part of getting older? In 2004 when the Flames went on their run I was 20 years old and for the next decade+ I lived and died on the Flames. A win was a good day and a loss pissed me off way more than it should.
I just find that now at 37 I have too much real life stuff to get happy and sad about that a Flames win or loss doesn’t do much to my mood anymore. Playoffs are a different beast but I simply am not as emotionally connected to the team as I was when I was younger.
I still spend a crap ton of time on this forum, I watch pretty much every game, and follow the team closely but I think I have outgrown the emotional rollercoaster and look forward to when I can ride it again when I retire.
End of the day I don’t get why people get so upset that this has been a mediocre team? Next year it will be a 32 team league and we are a bottom 5 market in that league with the worst building in the NHL. Making the playoffs and having the pieces to go on a run is worth cheering for and watching for me.