Last night - Jets lose, shots 24-23 NYI, Jets goalie has a .870 sv%. Isles could be doing a good job of only taking good shots. Could be bad goaltending.
Wednesday - Jets lose 2-1, outshoot NYI 26-22. Underlying stats say the Jets were the better team. Maybe the Isles were doing a good job at taking only good shots.
Thurs 16th - Jets lose 3-1, outshoot Columbus 38-24. Maybe Columbus did a better job at taking only good shots.
I'm reluctant to trust your eye test given you called the 2nd period against Buffalo as "the worst period by any team this season in any game", but maybe your eye test is just influenced by the end result and not what's actually happening on the ice?
I said that period was the worst I had ever seen - and it was. I don't know about other teams in games I didn't see. Did you think it was good? Or even just not terrible? They were hemmed in the DZ for almost the entire period. Come on!
Look at score effects in some of those games. Jets had 1 SOG in the 1st period.
1 Not sure but I think Isles got their 2nd goal before Jets got their 2nd SOG. Jets came on after that. Finally started to play, but Islanders were protecting their lead.
In those 3 games you list, Jets score 2 goals, both on the PP. The last 3 games they have scored just 2 goals, again both on the PP.
I'm NOT watching just the end result. If I was I would have been ecstatic with the Jets 4-1 win over NYR. Shot counts are not the be all and end all of measures of a game, but when a team is outshot 51-21 they were outplayed by a wide margin. If they won it was on goaltending differential alone.
I don't know what underlying statistics you are taking comfort in but they are 9-11 in the last 20. That is pretty bad. Worse is that they were not very good in many of the 9 wins either.
If you can't see with your own eyes that they have been bad for these 20 games I don't know what to say to you.