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You can go further and look at the competition that the Leafs have in their Division in Buffalo and Ottawa. These are teams that the Leafs have to play 8 times a year. Thats just plain silly, because these are the cream of the crop in the Eastern Conference. To expect a Leafs team to compete with BOTH those teams at the same time is just not going to happen, so the Leafs lose points right there. But why aren't you making comments about the poor play of the Habs? They are doing just as poorly as the Leafs. They missed the playoffs and did nothing to improve their team, rather they LOST key parts and got worse. So where is the condescending tone toward the Habs organization?
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I can't disagree there. I'm not sure if many people notice this, but for the last few years, however bad the Leafs are the Habs haven't been that much better.
I wish Leaf fans were more critical of their team though, 'cause you can tell the pressure gets to Montreal's management, but it doesn't get to Toronto's: Whatever their choices that they make, they still expect to sell out the next game.
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It's easy to tear apart an organization when its down and not doing well, but you have to look past the surface of the matter. This is an organization that has tried to be productive, but have failed. It doesn't mean you need to take whatever pot shot you can at them. I choose to marvel, and yes laugh sometimes, at the teams bad luck. But why rub it in the faces of the fans? It really doesn't accomplish anything. Besides, we're not even 10 games in, and to say the team is doomed to fail already is just ridiculous. Let us at least wait until the 25-30 game mark to decide that.
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Honestly, I do find this to be commendable.
As a fan of this team however, I have to say that this team doesn't always try to be productive... or at least, not until recently has it seemed that it's come to mind. It's success is making the playoffs. They never want to make the moves to push the team over the top, and they continually "improve" the team with patch-up jobs.
It's even worse when most of the fans of this team trust in every move it makes. It fails to waive or drop its garbage players as it knows they'll garner a large fanbase, and it does little to nothing during the off-season except hand out pay-raises and no-trade clauses to overrated players.
As for waiting forthe 25-30 games mark... What we're seeing now isn't a shock. It was quite clear before the season even began: This isn't a good team. They made little to no change to the team that didn't do squat last year, yet they have people expecting different results.
Until Gamache was playing, every player except for Jason Blake was in the line-up on last year's non-playoff team.
Also, I'll say that the media also plays a nice role in all this hoopla:
They win, and we should all get up on our high horses and plan the Stanley Cup Parade. They lose, and all of a sudden they point out the problems with the team, despite them existing even in a game where the team wins.
And the fans eat it all up too.
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