Keep in mind most on this board were enamored with Chayka initially and Murello extended Chayka before the major problems surfaced. I have disagreed with BA on the time it took to start an obvious rebuild, trade Chych/DVO, etc, but I do like the direction the team is going by building through the draft.
Murello is making his bet on an unproven coach and unproven GM, but Murello has a history in his business ventures of playing the long game and sticking with his managers. The GM bet is a safer one, given BAs experience within the Blues organization, they were a proven winner for 10+ years, built the team mostly through the draft.
So far, expectations have been very low. That starts to change this year. We have a lot of young players, some of them should get better naturally, some of them won't pan out. As a team, we haven't caught lightening in a bottle since the WCF run. We are due to beat expectations one of these years, I hope its this year. It's going to be fun to watch, we have a lot of hope with all the young players.
What is the bogie for this year? 75 points? Or is it higher? We will need 95ish points to make the playoffs, That would be way above expectations, 70 points or less and we are way under expectations.