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I wonder if a better defense will lead to a resurgence in people's opinion of Blake?
wheelers game was all about speed, he’s lost that gear and the end is near!
I wonder if a better defense will lead to a resurgence in people's opinion of Blake?
I wonder if this is the year we see Wheeler transition to a 2nd line role. Play with Dubois and Stastny most of the year.
Though with the lineup as deep as it’s ever been, I don’t see Mo making that change just yet. One more kick at the cup, and what not, with his favourite line. CSW line.
Offensively Blake can put up close to a ppg and I have no problem with him on the first line.
defensively he can’t keep up to other teams
Top lines and this is a huge problem. Add that Connor and sheif are top 10 for worst defensive forwards in nhl and it’s playing with fire keeping him with them.
What a coincidence that all the Jets forwards became horrible defensively as soon as they started playing in front of one of the worst defence corps in the league…
Well, not all of them...
I’d be curious to see your supporting evidence that they are in the bottom 10. That puts about 400 forwards above them.Offensively Blake can put up close to a ppg and I have no problem with him on the first line.
defensively he can’t keep up to other teams
Top lines and this is a huge problem. Add that Connor and sheif are top 10 for worst defensive forwards in nhl and it’s playing with fire keeping him with them.
I’d be curious to see your supporting evidence that they are in the bottom 10. That puts about 400 forwards above them.
Nope. Ehlers, the one man breakout has continued to excel.
I’d be curious to see your supporting evidence that they are in the bottom 10. That puts about 400 forwards above them.
I think you are misremembering. Laine was still on the team and he pretty much was at the bottom of the Jets forwards constantly.There was charts going around for advance stats last couple years. Connor and wheeler were 1 and 2 and sheif was 7 or 8th worst iirc
around the same time sheif called advanced stats hogwash. I was arguing sheif said that because he knows how bad his stats look
There was charts going around for advance stats last couple years. Connor and wheeler were 1 and 2 and sheif was 7 or 8th worst iirc
around the same time sheif called advanced stats hogwash. I was arguing sheif said that because he knows how bad his stats look
Well, not all of them...
Don’t need puck cycling and board battles when you keep possession entering the zone and score off the rush more a la TML.It is really just CSW and neither Connor nor Scheifele were that strong defensively before. Scheifele was better defensively earlier in his career but the change was him, not the D behind him.
Stastny and Dubois are better suited to compensate for Wheeler's weak D than C & S are. Ehlers improves the defensive play of the 1st line. So swap Wheeler and Ehlers. Pretty obvious really.
That still leaves the 1st line with 2 lightweight wingers who are not going to be great at board battles. Just have to try to avoid them as much as possible.
Don’t need puck cycling and board battles when you keep possession entering the zone and score off the rush more a la TML.
wheelers game was all about speed, he’s lost that gear and the end is near!
Actually, I think they have been pretty good off the rush the last couple of seasons. Also not too bad at extended possession in the O zone. The problem has been pretty much limited to the D zone, though that then overflows into the N zone.
But with Ehlers in line 1 there will at least be 1 guy who hustles to back check. That alone will help quite a bit. Meanwhile Dubois and Stastny are at least adequate defensively.
S-D-W will mean that PLD will have to be the guy doing most of the scoring. But that is a role he was good in with CBJ.
Then next year he gets Perfetti to work with and the year after he gets Lucius on the RW, a goal scorer.
Panarin was the trigger man on that line without a doubt not PLD...Agreed. Dubois was good leading the rush and being more of a triggerman in Columbus.
Perfetti should fit in really well with him when he's ready.
First line just needs to use speed and skill in the offensive end to mIntain possession and to break other teams down. This is where activating our defense will pay dividends.
He’s not having much luck selling his house