Nope.
The Jets have faced very high calibre teams in the postseason.
look at the last two seasons...
Vegas. Won the cup and a stacked Colorado with 2 of the best players in the NHL .
I've argued the Jets were not as bad as thier record in either series (go watch the games again...Jets were not great or even good, but the "boys against men" narrative is BS and with some puck luck the Jets were "in" both series.
..say the Jets get the goal in OT and go up 2-1 on vegas? then what happens?
Suppose last year, Georgieve, a 908 career tender,... doesn't post a .933, 917, .963 .944 over the last 4 games? Jets were pushing 30 shots a night that series. under pretty much every other circumstance Georgieve has faced like that he's been a sieve...last year? he went ballistic over 4 games, and as soon as he came back down to earth? Dallas kicked the Avs out easily.
Imagine if the Avs don't get like 7 PP in a row last year or whatever it was......
I also think Bones chickened out, changed the game plan tooo much to late in the game and that cost them.
So no. I think what happened last year especially HELPED the Jets.
They probably should have won, and when they got rocked by the Avs, puck luck, and the Refs... they couldn't right the ship....
but a lot of the way they have been playing this year, the streaks, the dominance of Good teams, winning in big moments and big games... I think last season the KNOW they f***ed up, and they KNOW they lost thier way.
I think the roster. to a man, are pissed. pissed at being left off rosters at four nations.pissed at being benched during the final, ..pissed at being ignored and discounted in the offseason by "experts" and gamblers....
I think it did make them closer as a team. hungrier, angrier, and with a massive chip on thier shoulder....
And I thin the league know it. and NOBODY want's to have o walk in this barn, see the whiteout, and play this team.!
Go Jets Go!