Habs faithful remain optimistic despite four-game losing streak, power-play outage and a raft of key injuries.

Montreal Canadiens fans accept defeats easier than they did back in the day. Article content

Sure, if you listen to TSN 690 after a bad loss, there will be the callers freaking out, shouting that everyone from senior management to fourth-liners should be fired. But the bar has been lowered. Article content Article content

Until 1980, if the team didn’t win the Cup, the season was a failure. Then through until, say, December 1995 — when Patrick Roy was booted out of town and the team went into a 25-year slump — you had to win a series or two for the season to be a success.

Today, if Lane Hutson makes a nice play and Cole Caufield scores a beauty, fans will accept going home

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