[FanIn80]

I don't know who's disagreeing that you can't lose every game.

My complaint has been that nothing was changed/altered at all in our game plans, after we were eliminated. Any call ups we made were strictly injury related, and we went with our full pre-eliminated roster (again, except for injuries) and icetime for every post-eliminated game.

It's not so much that we didn't "try to lose" it's that we treated these games exactly the same way we treated them when were still trying to make the playoffs. We COULD have done different things that, just by nature, may have resulted in losing more games than we did (or it could have gone the other way)... but we DIDN'T.

We were eliminated on the 4th, with 7 games left. Between then and now, just becuase of the results of all the other games that were played (not involving the Flames), our first round pick could have been as high as 5th overall. We've played 5 games since then, going 3 and 2 for 6 points... and because of that, the highest we can now draft is 8th overall (but only with help from Seattle), and we can still slip down to 10th (with zero help from anyone).

That's why I (and I assume others) are once again pissed. We didn't do a single thing different after we were eliminated. Same lineups, same icetimes, same old refusal to treat these games any different than any other games.

That's the point. There were lots of very realistic things we could have tried. We could have sat one or two vets for each game (alternating, of course) and tried out someone like Poirier (or literally anyone else from the Wranglers). We could have given the kids more icetime than (at least some of) the vets. We could have started Wolf more than we did (he only started 2 of the 5 post-elimination games).

It's not that we didn't lose more, and nobody's telling anyone not to score goals. It's just that we did literally NOTHING that wasn't forced by injuries for ONLY the last 5 games after we were eliminated. Maybe we would have lost more... maybe we would have won more... we'll never know, though, because this organization never. f***king. changes.

I don't know any other way to explain it than this. If people still think I'm "whining because whatever..." than they're just never going to understand (or they're just incapable of seeing beyond their own point of view).