Had to repost because I put 67.5 wins and not POINTS because I’m an idiot
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Yeah they just straight up don’t know the prospect pool so kind of a dumb watch.
It’s alright
Preview was alright, about what I’ve seen discussed here on a more surface level. SDPN and a lot of other media obviously aren’t as knowledgeable on some of the prospects, and it can be clear with videos like these. With SDPN specifically I don’t really watch them expecting them to know everybody beyond the Leafs anymore, sometimes their opinions have me scratching my head. I do wish there was a bit of a deeper dive on some of the prospects than some of the more obvious “knowns” considering that’s the biggest thing they pointed out here, the youth taking the next step.
That being said, and something that’s obvious to a lot of us here in the sub, they’re right in that the youth are the big unknown and we’re going to see how some of them have hopefully grown with the mounting expectations. Out of this preview I liked Jesse’s points near the end when it came to how the season’s story will be that development and how it’ll be more exciting to see what it ends up as. (and maybe hopefully better marketing lol).
My one main criticism is that they talk about the vibes and the media narratives (especially compared to the Sharks), and the how the hawks need to improve with that. But wasn’t the media contributing to the perceived bad vibes? Like how the “bedard is bad in the penalty box” thing spawned so much discussion.
Yes there were some bad moments last season but this idea that the hawks are some bad vibes mess comes from the media, in my opinion.
It is pretty hard to do previews of rebuilding teams if that isn’t their team they follow, it’s a lot to ask for them to have that depth of knowledge of all the prospects so they can’t really grasp what actually is exciting about that team and their future.
It’s interesting that with around 117k subbed to this corner of Reddit that any story has the same 5 posters upvoted to the moon saying how wrong an outside assessment must be. Maybe it’s a bit off, but if it reaches the point of a league-wide consensus, then there’s at least bit of a “perception is reality” to it. It’s up to the players and coaches to change that with something more than strategically finishing in the bottom two yet again. The need to “happy wash” every national assessment of the team is bizarre.
6 comments
Yeah they just straight up don’t know the prospect pool so kind of a dumb watch.
It’s alright
Preview was alright, about what I’ve seen discussed here on a more surface level. SDPN and a lot of other media obviously aren’t as knowledgeable on some of the prospects, and it can be clear with videos like these. With SDPN specifically I don’t really watch them expecting them to know everybody beyond the Leafs anymore, sometimes their opinions have me scratching my head. I do wish there was a bit of a deeper dive on some of the prospects than some of the more obvious “knowns” considering that’s the biggest thing they pointed out here, the youth taking the next step.
That being said, and something that’s obvious to a lot of us here in the sub, they’re right in that the youth are the big unknown and we’re going to see how some of them have hopefully grown with the mounting expectations. Out of this preview I liked Jesse’s points near the end when it came to how the season’s story will be that development and how it’ll be more exciting to see what it ends up as. (and maybe hopefully better marketing lol).
My one main criticism is that they talk about the vibes and the media narratives (especially compared to the Sharks), and the how the hawks need to improve with that. But wasn’t the media contributing to the perceived bad vibes? Like how the “bedard is bad in the penalty box” thing spawned so much discussion.
Yes there were some bad moments last season but this idea that the hawks are some bad vibes mess comes from the media, in my opinion.
It is pretty hard to do previews of rebuilding teams if that isn’t their team they follow, it’s a lot to ask for them to have that depth of knowledge of all the prospects so they can’t really grasp what actually is exciting about that team and their future.
It’s interesting that with around 117k subbed to this corner of Reddit that any story has the same 5 posters upvoted to the moon saying how wrong an outside assessment must be. Maybe it’s a bit off, but if it reaches the point of a league-wide consensus, then there’s at least bit of a “perception is reality” to it. It’s up to the players and coaches to change that with something more than strategically finishing in the bottom two yet again. The need to “happy wash” every national assessment of the team is bizarre.