Excuse me while I get meta for a moment. In the comments to several articles I’ve written and seen written on AAtJ, I’ve seen the criticism that we are pessimistic or too gloomy. I don’t agree with that seeing as my last 6 articles of a last-place season were defenses of Michael Cammalleri and Ben Lovejoy, an advanced stats summary, a commentary on how McLeod was tearing it up, some landmarks for the end of the season, and a commenatry on how the Devils countdown to contention has begun.