He clearly isn't the man to take this team to the cup. The Jets have one of the best rosters in the league and I'm shocked he lasted this long but he ain't it, chief.
Maurice and Huddy have to be let go if the Jets ever want to get out of the First round again. After this season maybe folks can see the regression and the fact the Jets might not even make the playoffs next season, or be at best a Wild Card team.
Maurice is the Jeff Fisher of the NHL - Mediocrity at best.
Maurice is very intelligent and is a great speaker (Media Darling as he gives great quotes, has a calming voice and knows how to control his image in the news). A coach doesn't stick around for this long without being good at covering his behind. As mentioned on this thread - He treats vets and leaders in the room very well to keep them happy = stable job.
Before last season the pundits always pointed to never having a "great goalie" as the reason that he never won anything. Will the Blind jets fans finally see that he hangs his goalies out to dry? Every other season he has been coach his teams have been near the top, or at the top at shots allowed. His systems force the goalie to make continual high quality saves.
Between him and Huddy, the jets give up multiple odd man rushes, play a man system that is exploited by almost every other coach, can't get the puck out of their own zone, cant make controlled zone entries, have a terrible takeaway-giveaway ratio, leans hard on one line and not rolling 4, has trouble developing youth as per previous points (He leans on stars and plays "his guys" way too much.
Take a look at media clips before his second firing in Carolina - Here is a spoiler - They are the same as ones from this year and last.
I want to cheer for the Jets but its difficult as they won't go far under his current structure. They aren't quite good enough yet and losing another pick at the deadline was silly - They should have stayed put like the Islanders.
They were lucky last playoffs playing a Wild team missing their Norris caliber D and one of their top Forwards - Then playing a playoff Rinne that is obviously near the end of his career - All their flaws were then exposed by the Knights.
Jets have regressed. They are in the position of 2015-2016 or the 2016-2017 team but will be up against the cap. Not the direction this team should be heading. Chevy and Maurice have put them back 2-3 years but with salaries of again players and a ton of RFA yet to be signed.
Roster is going to look very different next year as to meet the cap they are going to graduate a lot of youth. Hopefully they can keep Lindholm and Beaulieu after they were snubbed in this playoffs. There is no way Ehlers should have played that injured.
Go jets go but lets make some changes.
