It amazes me how many of you have blinders on when it comes to Enstrom. It's so obvious they should have Morrow in right now. The Jets won what 11 of the last 12 games of the year mostly without Enstrom to finish the season. Then they crush the Wild 4-1 and finish them off with back to back shutouts again without him. Does that sound like a team that needs to make a change on defense, not to mention to play a guy who hasn't seen much of the ice in a long time? Of course Nashville is a tougher team than Minnesota, but things were rolling great and there was no need to make the change to put Enstrom back in the second he is healthy. Throwing him to the wolves against Nashville his first game back was not smart at all. If this had been in the middle of the regular season I would understand the move. We don't have time in a playoff series for him to "find his game" or he will get better when we had a player in Morrow who was playing perfectly fine and was getting stronger each game. Enstrom was -2 last game (the worst of all defensemen on the Jets) and 2 goals were directly related to his poor play. Enstrom is not built for the playoffs, he is too small (just ask Toronto and Minnesota, they have lots of players his size ask them how that worked out) and is not being physical at all and shying away from contact (scared to get injured again). Average out his stats for an entire regular season and he was on pace to score 2 goals, Morrow was on pace for double digit goals. If Enstrom isn't going to score then he better at least take care of things on the back end, which he surely isn't. Again Morrow was playing just fine defensively as well. For all you Enstrom lovers, show me one clip where Morrow has cost us the game in the games he has played in.
I can show you a clip where Morrow won a game for us
I haven't chimed in at all because it's a heated argument, but I agree with most of what you've posted. We were doing great, the D was perfectly fine, and Toby has been out for a long time with injury. His numbers aren't great, including his Corsci (I think that was the stat I saw that was 26%) was terrible in the 2 games back. So it's not just eye test, and it's not a condemnation of his life's work, it's just the fact that 'waiting for a guy to get up to speed' shouldn't happen in a playoff series like this.
I love Toby, but I disagree with the decision to change up something that was working well. I know it's a different series with a different team.....but, that's how I feel about it.
We will put Frenchy back in if he's healthy (after some time off), but that will likely be on the 4th line. I would have liked to have seen the same with Toby, playing third pairing minutes with Myers to get his legs back.
Your mileage may vary.
