WPGChief
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It's never really been mentioned by any Jets fans, nor is it entirely supported as the Jets traded down in the Expansion Draft to lose only Thorburn (when many expected to lose Dano), but when there's any opportunity to make the team better, it should always be looked at - and with the UFA FWD market, unlike the UFA D market, there are some interesting names out there that could help boost a lineup, especially when you look outside of the Jets top 6 (Wheeler, Schiefele, Laine, Ehlers, Little, Perreault).
Plus I made charts and want to show them off.
Top 1 - 60 FWDs, separated by groups of 20:
Bottom 20 (ranked 88 - 107 FWDs):
Hanzal and Bonino are fortunate to be the only top centres on the market at the age of ~30, and are probably gonna be paid big time though they are realistically at best 3Cs who can slot up into a 2C role comfortably.
If the Jets were to add a FWD this offseason, it would likely be someone in a 3C/4C role and pushing Copp to a wing, where he has seen a lot of success in recent memory. In another thread, someone mentioned that Gagner could be a sneaky grab for the Jets as a 3C and force Lowry as a 4C, but as we see here, half of his GAR came on that very dominant CBJ power play (in the beginning), and his EVD metric was pretty bad.
My eyes first went to Josefson on the first chart, who has spent a plethora of time being injured on an usually bad NJD team, has a very strong EVD metric, but not really anything else. Looking elsewhere, his RelCF% is a rollercoaster of going between -5% and +5%.
I know this is heavily unlikely to happen (the obvious addition is goaltender (which seems to be Elliott) and many of us hope that a LHD is close as well), but it was worth looking at from a GAR perspective. In my very honest opinion, I think this is yet another year to stay away from the highly sought after free agents, but could add decent depth - though I envision the Jets hope that one or two AHLers draw into the lineup next season (Connor, Lemieux). What are your guys thoughts?
Plus I made charts and want to show them off.
Top 1 - 60 FWDs, separated by groups of 20:
Bottom 20 (ranked 88 - 107 FWDs):
Hanzal and Bonino are fortunate to be the only top centres on the market at the age of ~30, and are probably gonna be paid big time though they are realistically at best 3Cs who can slot up into a 2C role comfortably.
If the Jets were to add a FWD this offseason, it would likely be someone in a 3C/4C role and pushing Copp to a wing, where he has seen a lot of success in recent memory. In another thread, someone mentioned that Gagner could be a sneaky grab for the Jets as a 3C and force Lowry as a 4C, but as we see here, half of his GAR came on that very dominant CBJ power play (in the beginning), and his EVD metric was pretty bad.
My eyes first went to Josefson on the first chart, who has spent a plethora of time being injured on an usually bad NJD team, has a very strong EVD metric, but not really anything else. Looking elsewhere, his RelCF% is a rollercoaster of going between -5% and +5%.
I know this is heavily unlikely to happen (the obvious addition is goaltender (which seems to be Elliott) and many of us hope that a LHD is close as well), but it was worth looking at from a GAR perspective. In my very honest opinion, I think this is yet another year to stay away from the highly sought after free agents, but could add decent depth - though I envision the Jets hope that one or two AHLers draw into the lineup next season (Connor, Lemieux). What are your guys thoughts?
