I made a sort of shift by shift video of Jesse's game last night, but it got flagged for copyright infringement on YouTube, so here it is straight from my Google Drive - hope it works.
You might have to click on it, I don't know for sure how it will show. Perhaps it will open in a new tab or window.
Thanks for this!!!
A couple things I noticed;
- To McDavid's point. JP is playing inside a lot. He sticks right in the high scoring area, and only moves out to support the play or retrieve a puck. Then he heads right back in there
- He is screening the goalie when the puck is up high, then when it goes down low, he moves out just a bit to open up for a pass. He is generally open and always ready
- I saw him communicate in the defensive zone making sure others were aware of player movement and soft areas. This is huge, and has been missing at times
- He is battling for pucks
- He works hard in the defensive zone to force turnovers.
- He is hard on the boards when he is forcing a player off the puck
- He doesn't complain for a call. I hope the refs took note because they looked off a few obvious infractions and he just kept playing
- If McD's pass is just a little farther from the goalie, Jesse buries that one. No knock on McD of course, but that would have been sweet.
- JP's positioning in all zones was spectacular. Last night his hockey IQ looked great.
- JP's skating looks clumsy but it is not clumsy at all. He has some very nice edge work (such as the drive that set up Nuge's goal). He only looks awkward due to his size and freakishly long arms
Just a couple things to tidy up (super minor)
- He needs to get nastier when a player has him against the boards trying to get him off the puck
- A couple times he floated over to the LW during zone exits, and the RD did not have him there for an outlet (caused Bear to ice it once)
- Nuge needs to trust him a bit more. I may be wrong, but I felt Nuge looked him off a few times and tried a lower probability play
- He needs to smile more!!