How does this relate to the issue of lost mangames?
Then please explain why the Jets were bad in December, Jan, Feb when they were mostly healthy (minus Myers and 8 games of Laine)
Doing the math according the impact on points as given at the MGL site - when you take into account each teams injuries the Jets would have finished third in the Central behind the Hawks and Wild.
A top 10 team. With no better than .907 goaltending. That doesn't seem realistic when all the teams finishing in the top 9 all had starting tender numbers .920 or better.
If we compare to their playoff year, they had more MGL in total (roughly 100 more i believe)
However, in 2014-2015 they had more man games lost to Dmen compared to this year
Right. Which is why I was pressing - I was trying to discern what point you were trying to make.
You have to admit that they're partially to blame for at least a portion of last year's record. This does NOT absolve coaching and front office from other issues. Both can be an issue.
They wouldn't automatically be better, but it's difficult to argue that it would hurt them - fix some of the other issues that I mentioned AND be healthier, and I don't know how anyone could argue that we'd be in a better spot next year.
I agree that injuries played a part. My point of contention is against the narrative that "injuries were the difference between making or missing the playoffs".
To assume that injuries had no effect in the standings seems disingenuous. Imagine a healthy D Corp where Stuart spent most of the season in the press box. That would have no effect on the standings?
I agree that injuries played a part. My point of contention is against the narrative that "injuries were the difference between making or missing the playoffs".
I agree that injuries played a part. My point of contention is against the narrative that "injuries were the difference between making or missing the playoffs".
I personally don't think they were - I think lack of front office activity post-Christmas was the problem (for whatever reason: hard to make trades because of XD and cap situations amongst teams, inability or unwillingness to make trades, etc).
That played a bigger part, IMO. Neither helped.
Other than in net, which I was hoping Chevy fixes, inactivity by Chevy is more likely than not to benefit us in the future. Teams would fall all over themselves to move fading vets on big ticket contracts to us for one or more of our cost controlled kids. In the short term we would have been better and filled some of our injury gaps but in the long term not so much.
I agree that injuries played a part. My point of contention is against the narrative that "injuries were the difference between making or missing the playoffs".
This doesn't match the actual team performance. Map the injuries to the team's w-l record. Doesn't jive in terms of why we didn't make the playoffs. If you are looking for a consolation prize or explanation as to why we didn't make the playoffs, you could just as easily use the other things that don't jive. Like schedule, bad calls, puck luck. I am not saying that injuries don't affect you. But if you map our injuries to our performance, you can't conclude that we would have made the playoffs if not for injuries.
Goaltending, coaching and defence. Fix two of those three and we get into the playoffs next year. Regardless of schedule, puck luck, bad calls, injuries, weather, rabbit's feet etc.
Our 7 game winning streak was with important starters missing -- Enstrom, Myers, Matthais all jump to mind.
Our 7 game winning streak was with important starters missing -- Enstrom, Myers, Matthais all jump to mind.
This doesn't match the actual team performance. Map the injuries to the team's w-l record. Doesn't jive in terms of why we didn't make the playoffs. If you are looking for a consolation prize or explanation as to why we didn't make the playoffs, you could just as easily use the other things that don't jive. Like schedule, bad calls, puck luck. I am not saying that injuries don't affect you. But if you map our injuries to our performance, you can't conclude that we would have made the playoffs if not for injuries.
Goaltending, coaching and defence. Fix two of those three and we get into the playoffs next year. Regardless of schedule, puck luck, bad calls, injuries, weather, rabbit's feet etc.