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Originally Posted by Jester
Of course, the majority of the supposed "negative" posters on here have a pretty good track record on their predictive criticisms with Holmgren because many of his mistakes have been glaringly obvious ones. So suggesting that hindsight has been driving "I told you so" critiques is a bit much.
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This has been KILLING me recently on this board and I brought it up with Opus. When a lot of us criticize the team, other posters always bring up the "hindsight is 20/20" argument.
Okay, in some arguments, that's valid, but for this one, it's not.
A) People complained about the Jones deal the minute after he signed it.
B) People have been complaining about Stevens since 2007.
C) People complained about our lack of a faceoff man the entire season.
D) I personally brought up this team's apparent lack of focus and desire in February or March 2 months ahead of our Game 6 turd against the Penguins.
That's just 4 examples, there are many more.
That is not hindsight. This is people finding problems with the team and then being proven correct when the problems kill us.
That is not hindsight.
Hindsight is when a guy goes out driving, gets hit by a drunk driver, and his friend tells him, "maybe you shouldn't have gone out driving."
When we complain the whole year about how bad we are at faceoffs and then get slaughtered by the Pens on faceoffs and point that out,
that's not hindsight.
End of story.