No, you consistently imply that this 30-game stretch is the only thing that means anything, and I keep telling you that you are wrong. when a team has been the same for 30+ games, i tend to believe that they're highly likely to stay that way when their problems are as real as the hawks are. i don't see why there's any reason to believe that there's a good chance it will turn around when the playoffs start and we're facing even tougher competetion. the thing is, this team has very real problems. it's not like they're just slumping and people can't figure out why. our defense is ass without campbell and our goaltending is comical. crappy defense and horrible goaltending makes it close to impossible to win a stanley cup... unless you score like the caps. and we don't.