Depends on who you ask I guess, and how long they've been following the team.
I wouldn't say so, but my expectations weren't high for this season to begin with as I figured we were a fringe playoff team at best. When you don't get upset at losses it doesn't really matter, I've been having a laugh at this team all season, it's just part two of last season.
The first couple months of last season were harder imo, took me a while to embrace the fact that we were a joke and that this team isn't good enough. The Bruce bump was entertaining but the problems that plagued this team under Green still continued to a degree under Boudreau. Last season wasn't a tale of two teams, we're the same Jekyll and Hyde team today. We just don't have Vezina caliber goaltending covering the warts anymore.
Losing with this group doesn't phase me because I don't really expect them to have success. They'd be better off ejecting the veteran pieces of this core and starting over with Pettersson, Hughes, and the other youth. This team ain't going to contend any time soon let alone be a surefire playoff team.
What really bothers me is the continued failure of our management groups, and the meddling of ownership if there's any truth to that. We've been mediocre at best most of the past ten years and it doesn't look like that'll change any time soon. Money tied up long term in vets when we're not going to really be competitive, a capped out bottom feeder, a shallow prospect pool, our inability to effectively draft and develop our own prospects, our continued mismanagement of draft picks and our historical unwillingness to sell players.
We've done everything but actually try to rebuild, we've spun our wheels just trying to get into the playoffs because "anything can happen" but fallen on our face and missed out on that goal despite the best efforts of management. We haven't been trying to rebuild the past ten years, we've just sucked.