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Originally Posted by sharklife25
With high expectations comes great disappointment...
If you have the horses to do it, but they never come through it's far more heartbreaking than never having the horses and never expecting anything out of them...
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They have made the final four (out of THIRTY TEAMS) 3 times in the last 7 seasons, final 8 in 6 of 7. You can cry about them not making the finals all you want, but the fact is, each year there are way more than 8 teams that "have the horses to do it", and the sharks are consistently going pretty far.
As a fan, I hope that they find their way this year, but I am also not going to be looking for players to blame if they don't. I think that is what is most frustrating when talking to other Sharks fans... they are always looking for a scapegoat, even before the season is over, as if the team has already lost. If the chosen scapegoat of the day has never won a cup before, the reason for them being the scapegoat is "they obviously don't have what it takes to win a cup". If the chosen scapegoat has won a cup in the past (Boyle, Niemi) then "obviously it was a fluke". It is all just so frustrating to see, the team has great players and fans are usually attacking them.
As for your quote... in my experience you are dead wrong. It is far more heartbreaking to see your team not make the 2nd round for 2 decades than it is to see your team ousted in the playoffs every season for a decade.
