Quote from: coggs on Today at 01:20:00 PMYes and no. The doom and gloom of Rangers fans is just tiring. Up 3-1, have a bad game and everyone sucks. The GM sucks for not trading for a top-6 forward (because that worked out well last year). Rangers fans expect them to win every game by 4+ goals, score the first two goals of every game in the first 5 minutes. Never allow the opponent to get closer than 1 goal. Score on every PP, kill every penatly. Win the Corsi battle 95-5, have every zone entry result in a HDSC and a goal. I could go on and I am only slightly exaggerating.
Here are their results this year: https://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/NYR/2024_games.html
They literally had ONE losing streak of more than 2 games. It was a 4-gamer that started with a SO Loss. Aside from that, only 5 times where they had back-to-back losses and in 2 of those cases there was a SO/OT loss.
I would say this thread has been almost nothing but a cascade of high praise this year, so unless you're referring to other Rangers fans outside of this thread, I would say the above is a misrepresentation or, at best, a wild exaggeration. I can think of a number of occasions this season where the Rangers had a bad night, and people here generally had the attitude of "rough night, but no big deal. Shake it off and move on to the next one."
The bottom line is fans know this team is very talented, and so expectations are naturally very high. Fans also recognize that the top of the Eastern Conference is highly competitive, but regardless, if the Rangers' final game in this postseason is a loss, people are unquestionably going to be disappointed for a period of time. I would not say that makes them gloom and doom mongers or disloyal or unfair fans. It makes them fans that were optimistic about their team given its roster and coaching who didn't quite get the outcome they were hoping for. Nothing wrong with that. They're still loyal, good fans who are not going anywhere.
As a means of comparison, I am also a Knicks fan. I have been nothing but delighted with the season they have had relative to expectations and considering their severely bad injury luck this year, but in no way do I expect them to go any further than the Eastern Conference Finals (if they make it). I just happen to feel the Rangers have a higher ceiling than that.