Lits and Fly looked good but Laine did not.
Serious with this? I though Laine was about the best forward for the Jets today, not counting the goal, making couple of plays you expect your line mates to score and making no stupid things on ice. True that they don't have good play together with all three on ELL, but at least they got some L+L action, and E+La action going on periodically. And as always they were calm and working on d-zone, Morrow being unlucky to make full screen on Brossoit doesn't count.
Ehlers had his moments, but I think he was 2/3 of the game totally invisible in a bad way. I'm serious that he is really down mentally just now. So bad he didn't get his goal out of those two really good scoring chances he had in the game, because a goal would make all the difference. That he missed the empty corner might just hurt him even more. Little had a good first and third periods.
I agree with your other points, though I don't think Copp was bad enough to be picked too. Again smart pretty invisible little things he is doing, and was super close to score a game winning goal. Not sure if someone got a stick on that puck, didn't watch a replay.
CSW was a bit of a defensive nightmare, as they are used to be, also taking two completely unnecessary penalties. Nevertheless CSW is still the only offensive line for the Jets to regularly have three pass chains on the o-zone. For example even ELL might had better possession numbers tonight (not checked), I don't think they had even once eg. Little passing for Ehlers passing for Laine or the other way around. It was just one pass and then a shooting opportunity, and those are much easier for goaltenders. It took some 3 seconds to Scheif & Connor to be on ice with Laine when Connor found Laine with a very good pass. Something that's not usually happening on ELL.
Morrow was unlucky to screen the goalie once, but other than that I liked many of his decisions. It also looked from one angle that he did hit the post after that 2-on-0 by Ehlers & Laine, but maybe that was just goalie making a save.
Trouba had a lot of trouble with pucks bouncing his stick in the first period. Maybe he was just very unfortunate.
Carolina seems to be a pretty good team and playing really different game than the Jets. Not much board play going on, but they try to win space on center of the ice with speed and puck movement. Looking at that huge amount of shots, they did pretty well on that. They had also high number of huge scoring opportunities, but then again the Jets got some of the best chances.