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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Justified or lack of patience? Lots of talent there but I think this points to the lack of patience owners have when it comes to their expectation to compete. I figured NYR would start to really compete in a couple years, not this year.
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Really their record of 27-23-6 is pretty impressive when you consider how many games they had to play against the Penguins, Islanders, Bruins, and Capitals. This isn't nearly the same as the Flames playing a lot of games against the Leafs, Oilers, Jets, and Habs as I suspect only the Leafs would make the playoffs in that division and I'm not even sure that's a given. From an outsider perspective it looks to me like they were on a good trajectory and this season was a bad one to hold extremely high expectations given the level of their competition.