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Originally Posted by Jay Random
I sometimes wonder just how old the average CP poster is. ‘Making the playoffs consistently’ is a damned hard thing to do now. A lot of people talk about it as if this were still 1990, when 16 out of 21 teams made the dance and you almost had to suck on purpose to miss.
An average team will make the playoffs half the time and miss half the time. The Flames are an average team that has had some bizarrely bad breaks in the postseason. A lot of people here talk as if they were the worst franchise in the entire league. They're not even close.
Who would you rather cheer for: the Flames, who at least make the playoffs half the time, or the Sabres, who are consistent bottom-feeders? The Flames or the Coyotes, who are perpetually bankrupt and make all their deals to cut costs and aren't even trying to win? Or the Leafs, who have been making the playoffs regularly of late, but have overspent so badly on three big stars that they are forced to skimp on everything else, and have actually gone longer without a series win than the Flames have? Or, God help us, the Oilers?
A number of things have gone badly in the last couple of years, not only for the Flames but for the league and the world. It's a frustrating time to be a Flames fan. But why, in the name of sanity, is that a reason to make up more reasons for being angry?
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Some good points for sure, but using those 4 teams doesn't really help your point? Pretty sure those 4 teams have lots of complainers too, some likely worse than cp. I think in a forum things tend to get a little micro managed so the intensity of the debates are higher. I tend to believe many posters here do avoid extremes one way or another; Having a team that is poorly constructed while not getting good results from one year to the next is going to bring out posters who care about what happens to the team.
Agreed sometimes posters do complain for the sake of complaining, but that's why we have you!
