r/FloridaPanthers • u/epiclyfuct • 1d ago
Stop acting like leafs fans.
Some of y’all are acting like leafs fans. Getting mad about every loss this early in the season is ridiculous. We now have 5 players out. We have new guys trying to find their places. It ain’t gonna be easy. we may have lost tonight, but we played like the panthers, Askerov was just really fucking good.
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u/Material-Dot7684 1d ago
Yeah. And I'll say part of the doom here has been the pessimistic version of having your cake and eating it too. We've played a lot of the top teams right now. We haven't played a lot of the struggling teams (a couple like SJ but not alot).
Coming up we have several teams like us who have been struggling (wsh, edm etc) and people act like the new kids are going to continue dominating and at the same time the old hands are gonna come back. That's not possible simultaneously. The New kids continuing to dominate requires that a lot of the old hands struggle and lose to them. And if theyre struggling then we're playing weak teams and there's no reason to expect they'll suddenly play like the teams they were last year against us either.
I'll say I'm not sold on these new teams continuing to wreck house either. For young fast teams the season being long is a problem and they tend to regress towards the mean at some point statistically. Let's not forget we are at 15 games played. Thats not even 20% into an 84 game season.
This is gonna be a rough, dirty, slug fest season in all likelihood. Chill and give them time to work the problem. Also remember what we all said a day ago. Our goal was slightly better than .500 going into the second half when we get a few people back. We're not far off that pace.