If you'd noticed, in my earlier posts on this I specifically said that this wasn't meant to absolve Jones of all criticism. My problem is with the type of criticism. Don't apply the same criticisms differently to different goalies. If a bad goal is a bad goal, then it's a bad goal for everyone. If Jones lets in a softy that "any NHL goalie should stop" then Dell should get roasted the same if he lets in the same kind of goal. Call out Jones when he screws up, but if it's a goal that other goalies would get a pass on for extenuating circumstances, then Jones should get the same benefit. Criticism only works when it's fair. When it looks like it's being applied unevenly, it damages its credibility. And that only makes things worse when the level of criticism is already as divisive as the Jones issue is to begin with (and again, in fairness, the divisiveness is less about Jones being above any sort of criticism and more about how much gets heaped on him)
