In fact Little has been mostly criticized because of his poor offensive play this season. Not that much about his defensive play, as he has been defensively really one of the most solid Jets forwards this season.Nice to see Little with some point production and another solid game.
If Little was the C covering Sharp on Sharp's goal instead of the shiny new object Stastny, people would be crucifying Little here. The objectivity for some reason has been completely lost when discussing Little.
I have been definitely criticizing him a lot for making all of his linemates have problems with their 5 on 5 production this season.
Nice to see though that there might be after all some chemistry that leads into production, with Wheeler and Connor. If they continue like against Chicago, it will for sure make the Jets a very difficult team to play against. Little’s line was definitely last night a better line than Stastny’s line, but Stastny’s line had after all a bit of an off game for their recent standards. Hopefully Stastny’s line can regain the quality of play that they have had mostly so far, and that Little’s line can keep up with how they played last night. But if/when this happens and Scheifele is healthy again, who the hell should Chef play with then? I would hate to see two well functioning lines be split, if that would already be the case of how well the present top two lines would be seen working consistently.
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