News Article: Getting back to the dance

[pegjets]

Good writeup in the Free Press from Ed Tait and Tim Campbell on the questions which will determine whether the Jets return to the playoff.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/hockey/jets/Getting-back-to-the-dance-331177202.html

For those without a FP subscription, in summary:

1. Buff and Ladd Contracts
2. Keeping goals against low
3. Not protecting a lead in the 3rd period / last 5 minutes
4. Copp / Petan / Ehlers and Burmi performance
5. How they do in the early road games
6. Penalties taken
7. Pavelec / Hutch regression
8. Injuries
9. Glut of right-sided D men

Ed Tait has us finishing fourth behind the Blues, Hawks and Wild. Tim Campbell partly agrees but is less confident.

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[Aavco Cup]

Reducing our times shorthanded from over 300 to somewhere around 250 would go a long way to making it possible

 

[CaptainChef]

Teducing our times shorthanded from over 300 to somewhere around 250 would go a long way to making it possible

Agree. Penalties and #7 (goal-tending) are the keys

 

[scelaton]

Good writeup in the Free Press from Ed Tait and Tim Campbell on the questions which will determine whether the Jets return to the playoff.
Ed Tait has us finishing fourth behind the Blues, Hawks and Wild. Tim Campbell partly agrees but is less confident.

I agree with Tait's prognostication, but also with the qualifiers in the preamble:

*almost half (7/16) the teams in the 2014 playoffs were absent in last year's playoffs
*Only 23% of NHL teams made the playoffs in each of the last 3 years

There is so much parity in the league, especially in the Central, that you can be a strong team, on a strong development path, and still falter in a given year.

 

[pegjets]

I agree with Tait's prognostication, but also with the qualifiers in the preamble:

*almost half (7/16) the teams in the 2014 playoffs were absent in last year's playoffs
*Only 23% of NHL teams made the playoffs in each of the last 3 years

There is so much parity in the league, especially in the Central, that you can be a strong team, on a strong development path, and still falter in a given year.

Absolutely. Only 7 teams having made the playoff each of the last 3 years (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, Anaheim Ducks, St. Louis Blues, Detroit Red Wings and Minnesota Wild) is a telling number, showing how hard it is to make the playoffs consistently.

If the Jets didn't make the playoffs this season, it isn't exactly the end of the world or doomsday for the franchise.