Agree, but I think that's increasingly an important that the Jets -- to date -- have seemed unwilling to engage in.
Maybe Arniel is the one to make to move the adapt to the league rather than plow the 2012-era Jets Hockey furrow, though I expect that the good years, like last season, will probably outweigh the bad ones in terms of where the org thinks its problems might lie.
I'd love to see more young talent integrated into a line that than do more than try to stifle the puck for a few minutes a game, and instead push the play with enough threat and urgency to tilt the ice, for the next line on also I do think that players like Chibby and Lambert have the skill and speed to grow into those roles en route to playing higher up the lineup. But they're going to make mistakes along the way, and be allowed to play through then.
Anyway, my tuppence.
I agree - so, I've had a real shift in opinion, here.
Previously, I would have said (and I did as recently as last season), that having a more veteran laden roster with a 4th line that just eats minutes and tries to stay even is the right approach when playoffs hit and defense and prevention is paramount.
However, after the last 2 playoffs, that simply has not worked for this team, so - why not try something new?
If you can create 3 scoring lines you really tax the opposition when they are trying to suppress - they have to decide which lines they are going to assign their best defensive resources to, allowing for the remaining players to have softer matchups.
After getting absolutely shit kicked in 5 games in the playoffs for the 2nd year in a row I would say they did fluke out 52 wins last season.
Wait so 5 games is a better sample size than 52?
The problem is playoff hockey is balls to the wall all out give everything - and the Jets simply did not do that, from Hellebuyck all the way out.
