DEANYOUNGBLOOD17
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That'll happen when you have the best goalie on the planetUmmm
Only Stat that shows why we are 3-0 this year.
The team that won the Jennings trophy last year has started the season with a 0.67 goals against after 3 wins with 1 shutout and 2 one goal game against.
2 goals against after 3 games.
Not much of a conspiracy theory honestly. You're talking about the only coach I've ever heard of who resigned mid-season. The reason given was that he couldn't reach the room.So all 3 coaches that have coached the team all defer to Scheifele to run the team? This includes the coach who just won the cup in Florida who had to manage some pretty big egos to get it done. This conspiracy theory is more plausible to you than a coach wanting Ehlers to drive the 2nd line for example?
Ummm
Only Stat that shows why we are 3-0 this year.
The team that won the Jennings trophy last year has started the season with a 0.67 goals against after 3 wins with 1 shutout and 2 one goal game against.
2 goals against after 3 games.
i dont know about all 3, but i know one of the Jets media guys, either edmonds or wiebe said on 1290 in the 2019 season (i believe it was this year, since they went off-air shortly after) that scheifele and wheeler chose who they play with. i was surprised they admitted this on air when 1290, and those 2 notably go out their way to carry water & protect the Jets/tnse.So all 3 coaches that have coached the team all defer to Scheifele to run the team? This includes the coach who just won the cup in Florida who had to manage some pretty big egos to get it done. This conspiracy theory is more plausible to you than a coach wanting Ehlers to drive the 2nd line for example?
The narrative that schief is bad defensively is largely based on his xGF%I actually see both sides of this argument.
I see why Buffdog, myself and others still like the 1st line with 81 and 55 despite what the advanced stats say.
I also see the argument that it's not shitting on Bambi and KFC to want to have them playing on seperate lines to see if we can get a bit better offensive balance and maybe have 2 lines that give up a little less.
At the end of the day, I accept that those 2 will play together, for whatever reason. They have obvious offensive chemistry so at least part of their game works to the Jets benefit.
The one thing that does baffle me is what happened to Mark Scheifele? Obviously I still love the guy but do you remember when he was a 200 foot player? What switch went off in his head that turned him into a guy who give 50% effort defensively? I think it might be too much ice time to be fair, but you deffo don't want a disgruntled Brighteyes loafing around the ice.
Pretty much everywhere. Look at Edmonton and tell me that McDavid doesn't run the show thereIt's not news that inmates run the asylum here.
The narrative that schief is bad defensively is largely based on his xGF%
Yes, he accrued 62.46 xGA last season in 74 games. But Crosby ( who I don't think anyone would accuse of being bad defensively) had 61.77 xGA. The difference is that Crosby had 76.13 xGF to Schiefele's 53.15 xGF
So yes, if you want to improve his xGF% then he should reduce chances... but that's only one side of the equation. The real gap is the fact that he should be producing more offence at 5v5
Pretty much everywhere. Look at Edmonton and tell me that McDavid doesn't run the show there
You keep saying the 1st line is working so poorly when they virtually won us the last 2 games and we are 3-0. And if you go look at the advanced stats the 1st line is miles ahead of the 2nd line by any measure possible so far this season.
LOL it was not HELLY who won those last 2 games. Both those teams got very good efforts from their goalies as well.At 5v5?
Really? You are going to talk about the last 2 games after 6 years of same old, same old?
Not to mention that it was Helle who won those last 2 games.
Comparing to the ENP line is setting the bar pretty low.
LOL it was not HELLY who won those last 2 games. Both those teams got very good efforts from their goalies as well.
I'm growing really weary of the whole our team is shit without Hellebuyck nonsense.
If the other teams goalies would have been mid we would have won both of them by several goals in regulation.
There are a lot of assumptions hereI think some of the nuance is being lost in these discussions. The argument that Helley is stealing us games is more to show that our skaters weren't good enough. Helley is a part of the team and it's great we can rely on him (mostly) for locking it down and helping us win. Every team wishes they could have a goalie like him. He is a big part of our team success and we cannot discount this.
However, having your best skaters (who play the most minutes) lose their matchups is not a recipe for success... We have seen this the last several playoffs.
Our best skaters also showed up when it counted and got us our 3 wins, which was fantastic. Again, this is not your typical recipe for success and we should not be expecting to win in this fashion over an extended period of time.
We should be striving to have strong 5v5 play, which is the primary driver of success in the NHL.
All this being said, those games were highly entertaining and I'm not too worried.
of fwds with similar TOI as scheifele (1072 mins or 90% of scheifele's), he was 2nd worst out 87 fwds in xGA/60 which accounts for the missed gp. usually KC isn't far behind (ofc they play together lots). And this is on a team that was good defensively (11th best) vs a team like PIT (27th worst).The narrative that schief is bad defensively is largely based on his xGF%
Yes, he accrued 62.46 xGA last season in 74 games. But Crosby ( who I don't think anyone would accuse of being bad defensively) had 61.77 xGA. The difference is that Crosby had 76.13 xGF to Schiefele's 53.15 xGF
So yes, if you want to improve his xGF% then he should reduce chances... but that's only one side of the equation. The real gap is the fact that he should be producing more offence at 5v5
Pretty much everywhere. Look at Edmonton and tell me that McDavid doesn't run the show there
i don't think a single person has said scheifele's importance to this team is lower than ehlers'. if we lost scheifele our top line C would be lowry who has never scored 40 pts in a season.I don't think moving Ehlers to the 1st line and trying to play in 20+ minutes a night is magically going to make us a better team. Ehlers is frustratingly good to watch but I haven't seen him put up a long stretch where he is in that top 30 player in the league type,
Put it this way, If we lost Ehlers for a long stretch of time we are probably going to be ok but if we lose Schief I think we are in trouble.
I've said this before... I don't think that schief is a top centre in the league at this point in his career.of fwds with similar TOI as scheifele (1072 mins or 90% of scheifeles), he was 2nd worst out 87 fwds in xGA/60 which accounts for the missed gp. usually KC isn't far behind (ofc they play together lots). And this is on a team that was good defensively (11th best) vs a team like PIT (27th worst).
i don't think anyone thought crosby was great defensively last year, the stats didn't bear that out ie:
im not super worried about xGF b/c they are usually good finishers so perhaps lower quality shots have a good chance of going in (think laine). although, i do think scheifele should be more selfish & shooting more b/c of his lethal shot. so from an standpoint, that would raise his SOGs, Corsi, xGF etc. been saying this for years since he's been like a 15% shooter at 5v5 however at v low shot volume.
most years despite being 30-40 goal scorers they're marginal in terms of 5v5 +/-, asides from 1-month last year which drove essentially drove scheifele to a +14, the prior few seasons he was -3, 0, +2, and KC: 0, +1, -3, -2.... and that's with the best regular-season goaltender behind them.
just looking at last year; 40 goal scorers on teams with top-half team goaltending were
+15, +17, +15, +11, +27, +25
idk maybe someone has examples of SC winners or succesful PO teams of having a similar top-line in terms of goal-differential