And which stats would these be again?
Talking about cherry-picking:
While I never once made statements of Laine being used badly in PP this year.
If "cherry-picking" in your mind is a simple referral to fact of what Maurice has accomplished career-wise, you'd simply be chewings nails outside the Jets forums, ha. So there are 13 coaches ahead of him in games played, while he reminds at the very bottom of that list that comes down to the losses. "Yay".
You did hit the nail in the coffin there with pointing out Maurice tenure being developmental. I wonder how long it would take should he go shopping for new pair of shoes. When this man is expected or should make changes to get the absolute optimal output from his team, he does nothing. When things start clicking with a line (like it did with Perreault - Little - Ehlers) he would not keep it together because there was no way Laine could be promoted to the first line so instead of going with the sure thing, he started mixing things up yet again. He hasn't been able to find balance so that all lines could get consistent results as expected given their roles & ice time, until very recently, but even that took him Stastny and some 60 played games (not to mention Little's line still having lots to do to regain form). The age isn't an issue as long as these kids are better than an average old school player, and they are.
You bring up these examples of teams drafting here and there, as if it had anything whatsoever to do with Maurice. I don't know how many times I have to repeat this until it's received, but it is Chevy who drafts these talents, not good old Paul.
Would you mind elaborating the rest of us this sum of factors you were referring to, of why ELL was in place and in the end played the what, 40(?) games together? I find this part fascinating so please would you be kind enough to share why in fact they were shackled to one another the way they did despite of being piss-poor at the ice? Furthermore if you don't mind, why not continue and explain what these so called strong counter-arguments were again that somehow justified the utilization when it made no sense (even less the further and further we dive into the 17-18).
You do understand that I was criticising P.Mo here, not the Jets right? No one has been above critique this year so why should he? I do not know how you find the timing so convenient to drag this "old" post of mine back into light since the team has actually been doing quite well of late and even Laine has had some kind of share of the ice time. In general, if you don't like what you're reading, just turn the page.
Oh and I've been enjoying myself ever since Laine was cut away from Little and that's been like 8 games now!
Perhaps they don't matter or perhaps they do. If person is under scrutiny, would it be fair to judge him based on what he is today (alone) or would you get more accurate picture looking back to all and every year of his life? Like pointed out above there are 13 coaches with more games and less losses. I'm aware that he is extended and unless he falls out in the first round of the playoffs, there's little reason to expect him to disappear, but that doesn't change the way I think about him. I see a lot of his old bad habits still in the play and I doubt he'll learn new tricks going forward. I'd be happy to be wrong of course. Time will tell.
