Whenever a new member of the St. Louis Blues says how much they think that the team can win the Stanley Cup, there’s always an impulse for fans to think some variation of “aww, that’s nice.” It’s kind of like the reaction people have when they see a cat walking on its hind legs: “aw, he thinks he’s people!”
After Ryan O’Reilly’s post-season press conference tour of misery (he said that he lost his love of the sport of hockey thanks to being on the Sabres - which is not a thing that you want anyone to say), maybe it’s time to temper that knee-jerk reaction that we have to the new guys being optimistic.