It’s mid-December. Do you know what level of crisis your favorite team is in?
Chances are, the answer is “pretty darn high”. This is the time of year when we normally see a few teams figuring out that reality isn’t going to match their hopes; that’s just how the season works.
But this? I’m not sue I can remember a season where this many teams felt like full-fledged disasters. I’m not even referring to teams like the Sharks who have bad records like we expected. That’s business as usual for a rebuilding team. I’m talking about the kind of seasons that get lots of people fired.