Pre-Game Talk: Preds @ Jets • Sat, Mar 23 @ 6:00 pm CT • Sportsnet

[Ducky10]

Don't have tix for this one.

Everyone who is going, please bring the noise.

I'm going, I'll yell for you .

 

[Whileee]

It's cute how the Preds board Pre-GDT morphed into the GDT which morphed into the Post GDT and all of that together is 5 pages over 2 days.

Each HF Preds fans should have to have at least 3 accounts.
That way it could look like a conversation by more than 5 people.

Jets better be all over things tomorrow if they want to get a good result.

Maybe AOL service has been spotty...

 

[Mortimer Snerd]

There are bigger factors then us just "Being off". Big part of the season without Byfluglien and Morrissey is huge. Plus, no Enstrom (As soft as he was), was good at keeping shots against low.

On the Forward side, losing Ehlers for a chunk of the season makes SF a lot lower.

Injury excuse is being way over used. Not that it doesn't exist but which team has not had injury problems? We have had worse injury loads in previous years.

 

[Tom ServoMST3K]

Injury excuse is being way over used. Not that it doesn't exist but which team has not had injury problems? We have had worse injury loads in previous years.

And have had exactly zero success in those years

 

[Jets 31]

Losing your top 2 defenseman is way worse than losing 2 forwards , for one the defenseman play a tonne of minutes especially Buff and Morrissey . Then you are replacing those 2 defenseman with inferior talent and think that's not gonna make a huge difference ? Look at it this way , Chevy is adding 2 elite defenseman for the playoffs for free , how will that not make any team way better .

 

[KingBogo]

As someone who likes following stats and believes in tilting the ice, I agree with you.

But then I look at the standings, have a sip of my drink, and enjoy life and the position the Jets are in.

If they flame out, at least I still have the summer to look forward to. Until my hopes are dashed, I'm going to hang on to the possibility that they return to their dominant play after rope-a-doping the league for the last couple of months.

And the history of professional sports is filled with teams that played below expectations during the regular season and then caught fire in the playoffs and due to the nature of hockey it seems to happen in the NHL more than any other league. Over the last decade and not counting the lockout season the Stanley cup winner has had the following regular season point totals:

105
111
104
102
100
95
103
112
99

Average 103.4 points. Sports Club has our most likely final points total at 103 points

Coincidence? I think not

 

[YWGinYYZ]

GDT: GDT: - Preds @ Jets • Sat Mar 23rd, 6PM • Bell MTS Centre • Sportsnet