One perk of a smaller community (where only 9 posters even talk about hockey) is there is no hivemind situation usually...in the rare instance that I poke my head into there, it's usually just people that have no idea what's happening on the rink (80+%), antiquated/pre-conceived notions about a player, or empty calculator jockeys...
And if you say something "different" you're asked to "prove it" (in so many words) from each of those three points of view, each of which has their own pitfalls...I'm not sure I even have five posts in that team forum...
I feel like the reason I don't talk as much hockey because I moved out of Pittsburgh and life is busy and I don't catch as many games but really the reason is I completely trust Jim Rutherford and Mike Sullivan and I love the identity of this team.
Its completely different then the Shero teams where we had no forward depth, scratch that, just no depth (Not blaming him completely most of these young upstarts are his draft picks)
I'm not speculating about how much better our team would be if we just acquired someone like a Taylor Hall or some star complimentary winger, we have one, his name is Stanley Cup Champion Phil Kessel. I also completely trust that the powers that be know the this team's most immediate concern right now is the future of the number 1 D spot.
When your happy with a team's identity I think you just shut up and wish for the large amount of luck it takes to get 16.