Player Discussion: Ehlers

[Buffdog]

Just play the guy 17-19 min per night and all the parties will be happy. Extra shift here or there. 1-2 shifts per game make huge difference.

These 12-14 TOI's are very worrisome and bad... I know that you need to play Lowry line a lot. But using your best or second best winger only 12-14 min is maddening.

There will be games with lots of PKs where his icetime will end up lower than people want. At the end of the day, now that he's on PP1, should we just be looking at his 5v5 time?

 

[surixon]

There will be games with lots of PKs where his icetime will end up lower than people want. At the end of the day, now that he's on PP1, should we just be looking at his 5v5 time?

It's really only home games that are the issue. We hard match too much and it impacts the second line the most. On the road the second line gets enough minutes.

Given our performance on the road when we roll our lines more is juat as good I think our coaching can ease off the matchups a bit.

Top line is also still taking far too long of shifts.

 

[Adam da bomb]

It's really only home games that are the issue. We hard match too much and it impacts the second line the most. On the road the second line gets enough minutes.

Given our performance on the road when we roll our lines more is juat as good I think our coaching can ease off the matchups a bit.

Top line is also still taking far too long of shifts.

Don’t really see an issue I see 11 and 1.

 

[surixon]

Don’t really see an issue I see 11 and 1.

There is never am issue when teams win but if ot stops that is when these things happen. Murat flat out said Ehlers complained about his minutes last year and in the article flat out stated he wasn't happy with 12 or so.

Part of keeping a team winning is keeping your players happy and I'd think keeping Nik happy should be right up there with keeping Mark and KC happy.

 

[JetsFan815]

There is never am issue when teams win but if ot stops that is when these things happen. Murat flat out said Ehlers complained about his minutes last year and in the article flat out stated he wasn't happy with 12 or so.

Part of keeping a team winning is keeping your players happy and I'd think keeping Nik happy should be right up there with keeping Mark and KC happy.

Exactly, Arniel needs to find him minutes no matter what. He can't put up his hands say... "too bad, the matchups got me away from the plan". This is a player in a contract year who is playing well, they should be doing everything to keep him happy.

So far out of 12 games, in 4 games he has been far from 16 minutes. Good thing is that in the last 7 games he has been under 16 minutes in only 1 game, the tampa game but was under 16 mins in 3 out of first 5 games. I hope the recent trend keeps up, Tampa game not withstanding.

 

[Jets 31]

Don’t really see an issue I see 11 and 1.

Exactly, if Ehlers or any player on the Jets for that matter isn't happy right now when we are 11-1 and the best team in the league because they got 40 seconds less ice time i don't think we want players that selfish.