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Originally Posted by Vedder
At this point I don’t know if you’re being deliberately obtuse or just truly don’t get it so I’ll spell it out for you:
The team should never feel content or take moral victories from losses to the oilers. I want players who hate to lose to them, because I as a fan hate losing to them.
This is true irrespective of the quality of the team. If we are rebuilding, I still want the players to hate losing to the oilers.
Your argument about the rebuild is non-sensical though, because it’d be impossible for them to get worse results than they’ve had since last October with this group of players. And there is no reason at this point to think it’ll get better absent a rebuild or re-tool.
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A. No one has expressed contentment nor taken a moral victory. Nice straw man.
B. I'm not talking about players - I'm talking about fans. What player didn't hate that loss? But the fans had better get used to losing if they want a big rebuild. Wait until the team plays without Tanev, Lindholm and Hanifin (and maybe Markstrom as well).
C. There's plenty of ways for them to have had worse results since October. For example, they could have gone without a 4 game winning streak before the last couple close games. They could have had way more blowouts (I can't remember the last one).