[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

This place sure is a hyperbole chamber and this thread is certainly exemplifying it.

Your side is. You've spewed out more hyperbole than anyone except possible FanIn80. Gio and Bingo haven't engaged in hyperbole at all.

Those two wins have done less good for the bigger picture than two losses would have.

So what? The team should have thrown those games instead?

You think the OTHER two teams, which are worse than the Flames and have ALSO been eliminated, can't do the same? They can out-suck us any day of the week.

I still remember the turtle race in '84 between New Jersey and Pittsburgh for the rights to draft Mario Lemieux. That was some of the worst hockey ever seen, because the coaches actually had marching orders to throw the games. New Jersey finished with 41 points, Pittsburgh 38. Nobody sane wants to pay admission to see games like those. Now you're complaining because a team that isn't even in the running for last place, in a year when there is no talent remotely comparable to Lemieux, isn't doing the same thing those two teams did. It's pathetic.

That’s just a true fact and you can try all you want to put bows on “players going into the summer on a winning streak high” and “marginal affects on the draft”, but it just doesn’t make a case. Some of us see a clear distinction between the 11th pick and the 7th, in lottery odds, players available, and success rates.

So why do the players throw games? For the benefit of a draft pick who won't be on the team until most of them have moved on?

Why do the coaches throw games? The average head coach in the NHL lasts about 2.5 years with one team. Chances are that Huska will never coach that draft pick for a single game. Should he make his resume worse for his next job over a single spot in the draft order for the team that is going to fire him?

All the garish attempts at trying to explicitly link what the team and players do to a fans preference for a loss over a win have been humourous.

You're the one making that link, because you get mad that the team isn't doing what you, as a fan, want.

You’ll all be rolling into the draft threads making comments pre and post draft about how your guy you wanted was missed out on. It happens every year.

Yes, and it happens to every team every year, except the team that drafts first overall – which only gets to do so by winning the lottery. So what?

Good grief, you're tiresome.