freer said:
LuncheonMeat said:
bustaheims said:
freer said:
Still better then any of us have seen in the last 10 plus years.
The recent Leaf teams have mostly had better records and been better teams than most of the Leafs teams from the 80s, so, no. Simply making the playoffs doesn't mean much now. It meant even less then, when all you had to do to make it was not be the worst team in your division.
freer, you obviously didn't suffer through the 80s with this team. They were simply terrible.
I have been suffering since 75. So yes they were bad. They made the playoffs which is the goal for a team.
I think the goal of the team is to win, not just make the playoffs, which is something they didn't do much of. The 80s, in summary:
- Combined regular season record: 266 - 441 - 93
- Combined playoff record: 17 - 24
- They did not qualify for the playoffs in 4 of their 10 seasons (not easy to do at that time unless you were really terrible)
- One of the six seasons they did qualify, they didn't win a single game
- Two of the six seasons they did qualify, they won one game
- For the 4 seasons between 1988 and 1991, the failed to qualify 3 times, and won a single game the other.