Scheifele is a shell of the player in the first 20 games. He was a beast then. Speedy, checking, passing etc. now he’s mostly coasting and hardly skating the last 10 games or so.
Some of the things that were discussed ways back and ignored due to being tied 1st overall seem to be troubling the Jets now. 1st line's extremely high PDO coming down with Helleybucks performance leveling off along with Scheifs and Connors high sh%. 2nd line still not clicking, 3rd line is still the same with defensive work and all that but won't help the jets with scoring and the 4th line being figured out especially when you have to distribute Perreault elsewhere at times. Also, Chiarot might be bad but he wasn't the reason that the jets were down 3-0 early. He's the fall guy because he's some AHL call-up who can be gotten rid off easy but it won't magicly solve the jets problems.
Would it surprise you that Lowry has about the same 5v5 points per minute as Little?As much as I appreciate all the little things CLT do well, they remind me too much of running on a treadmill, just a fast track to nowhere offensively. Down 4 goals there was no need to send them out so often, and even less need to keep the line together.
Jets were just handily outplayed in that game. Hope that is sickness related because many players looked really bad.
Why would it surprise me? In a game down 4 goals I don't see much point in continuing to hold the opposition down. Break the line up and try to create some more scoring with Lowry in particular.Would it surprise you that Lowry has about the same 5v5 points per minute as Little?
That line allows an average of one even strength goal against every 11 games, and scores about 3 times as often as their opposing lines.
I totally agree with this--it seems like Scheifele has been invisible over the last 10 games or so. He hasn't been hustling or driving the play at all !!! The guy that has been driving the play is Ehlers. I hope Scheif wakes up--we need him to get that 1st line scoring.
Indeed, it seems the Jets didn't "figure it out". What a surprise.
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Nice to see some line changes, PLL is immediately much better, but if I were Maurice, I would have immediately put ESL together because they have by far the best goal output of all the combinations, even if they would not be solid defensively. High risk is fine when you are trailing that badly. Well, baby steps at least. We need some new tricks with the breakout
This time the bottom-6 could not deliver 5v5 scoring and the top-6 remains dry. Hawks didn't take too many penalties unfortunately.
Ehlers with a nice snipe. He looks so much better on the first line. ELL just kills the soul of anyone in it.
he needed to do the Gretz and just let it go in his hockey pants.Wheeler literally looked like he was clenching a turd all night. Never got into a full stride.
ah yes, yes, back to the old "Blame the goalie coach" excuse that wasn't there for the first 1/4 of the season.I see the Flaherty effect creeping back in to Helles game. Hendricks is not an everyday NHL player. Jets stink last night. The only positive is I sold my seats to the game and didn’t have to witness it.
Jets should start playing some desperate hockey before the backwards slide continues in the standings.
he needed to do the Gretz and just let it go in his hockey pants.
i mean, that's what i'd do. and then stand in front of the other team's net.
because you have 2 players that were top 10 in the league in scoring and you wanted to break it up?I really don't understand Maurice's totally unwillingness to put Wheeler with Little , they played together for years and played quite well together . Has any reporter asked this question to Maurice ? Because i've never heard anything . Sheif with Laine and Ehlers and Little with Wheeler and Frenchie , if it doesn't work Maurice can go back to his lines . I really don't get it .
Outplayed, out goaltended, out coached....
We all have to stick together.
We all have to stick together!
We all have to stick together!
The Chariot twins!
All the Finns are busy fattening up the Reindeer!
We do?
Schief last 5 games: 0 goals, 1 assist, 1 point
top line not scoring = Jerts not winning
Connor should publicly acknowledge Mo's lofty achievement!
What do you think Q did tonight that made the difference?
I would if it meant getting 6 players playing good as opposed to 2 , i think as a team we would be even more successful that way .because you have 2 players that were top 10 in the league in scoring and you wanted to break it up?
i really don't get it.