GDT: Game 26/82 Blues @ Jets 7PM CST FDSNMW

[Snubbed4Vezina]

good team win tonight against a good team. kyrou played well

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If I lose this little bit of stability in my life I'll have nothing left to keep be balanced.

 

[HighNote]

I know @i aint Dunn yet will be one of my stars tonight. His LIKE game was strong!

I miss Bendak

 

[TheDizee]

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If I lose this little bit of stability in my life I'll have nothing left to keep be balanced.

im a umpire, i call balls and strikes. my strike zone is the same for everyone.

if kyrou plays well, he will get my praise. if he stinks it up, he will not. either way, he still is on my trade list.

 

[Memento]

im a umpire,

So, you're admitting you're legally blind?

I kid, I kid.

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

So, you're admitting you're legally blind?

I kid, I kid.

There are Angel Hernandez's in this world

 

[HighNote]

im a umpire, i call balls and strikes. my strike zone is the same for everyone.

if kyrou plays well, he will get my praise. if he stinks it up, he will not. either way, he still is on my trade list.

What can Kyrou do to get off the trade list

 

[Finnflash]

Your guys played good today. Keep it going

 

[Robb_K]

Something from the Post-game Show. Monty is basically a communicator. He's more into allowing players to make mistakes, learn from them, and talk to the players about how to fix it in the future. Allows the players to go out, play their game without the fear of getting reprimanded. Everything I'm hearing so far is also he's coaching to teach, not to win. Wins are just bonus right now.

Glad to read this. this is what our team needs - a teaching coaching staff. When you almost never draft in a high position, you need to be able to improve the skills and hockey sense of your players to be one of the better teams. I knew Monty was a teaching coach based on how he improved special teams so spectacularly over how they performed under their previous coaches. As a heads coach, he will not only teach his players in general, but will also choose his assistants based on their style of coaching and that would require them to also have a style that already showed an emphasis on teaching, and while working with them now, he will continue to instruct them to emphasize teaching, and so skills practice and encouraging the players better at certain techniques, such as faceoffs, shooting, shooting moves and finishing, use of body leverage, etc, might be taught to younger players when it is noticed that those skills need to be upgraded. I know that the off season is the main time to work on that. But in-season, players lapse into bad habits, or because of injuries, are sometimes temporarily put into situations above their skill level or abilities, and could use some friendly help to improve their game. And a team with a culture that includes helping players improve for the good of the team is appreciated by players when that can help them move upward in their careers.

 

[Stelmacki]

Great game. Not at all how I thought it would go without Faulk and Buch in.

 

[oPlaiD]

I didn't watch the game, but looking at highlights and the advanced stats, this is one that is definitely giving me more hope we may actually have playoffs this season. The team's certainly produced results under Montgomery so far, but it was a little unclear how much of that was a new coach honeymoon versus more systemic change. I know this wasn't Winnipeg at their best, but this certainly seems encouraging.

Is that the right read, for people who actually watched?

 

[mk80]

Very good win to open the road trip! And we finally get a win against a team in our division.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

I didn't watch the game, but looking at highlights and the advanced stats, this is one that is definitely giving me more hope we may actually have playoffs this season. The team's certainly produced results under Montgomery so far, but it was a little unclear how much of that was a new coach honeymoon versus more systemic change. I know this wasn't Winnipeg at their best, but this certainly seems encouraging.

Is that the right read, for people who actually watched?

For me it's certainly encouraging, but we have up to 5 years to see what he can do. For now, I want to see a 20-25 game sample and then see how the team is at the TDL, which would be 41 games complete under Monty.

 

[Xerloris]

Great game. Not at all how I thought it would go without Faulk and Buch in.

Wow I didn't even notice Buch wasn't in tonight.

 

[Frenzy31]

And why is 400 minutes an insufficient sample size?

It is less than 20 games over a period of 5 years.....

 

[TheDizee]

What can Kyrou do to get off the trade list

once you get on the trade list, no getting off it.

takes alot to get on it, very few souls ever make it as far as he has.

He could score the GWG in a G7 OT cup winner and I would still want him gone

 

[fishsandwichpatrol]

I haven't watched many games this season but when I do it seems like the guys we.... obtained from Edmonton go off. Looks that that was a great move

 

[BleedBlue14]

What can Kyrou do to get off the trade list

If I have read the situation right, probably denounce Fortnite as a cancer to society

 

[PocketNines]

The thing everyone's feeling good about is it's the younger players who are stepping up in the wake of the change. Bolduc and Holloway in particular since the coaching change look really good. I think Kessel may be starting to get his game going and we need that.

Kyrou - here was always the ask. You can be average on D but it has to be average not a liability. While you are doing this you have to produce in line with what a top line winger produces. This season is the first time – after years of waiting while the team lost behind it – that he seems to be committed to defense. His commitment has led to mixed results and it's still frustrating sometimes but he has cleaned it up. Lately he has been missing so so so so many chances but that is the kind of frustration that's way more tolerable. If an established, quality goal scorer goes through a dry spell during the 82 game season, we have seen enough of rhythms to know there will be a stretch of scoring to balance it out.

In other words, he has shifted the way he is frustrating to a much more tolerable way of being frustrating. From this place, he can get on a heater. Before, if he got on one you knew it was still a defensive quagmire with him. Also, offensive plays dying once the puck get to his stick or just after.

Currently, although it's frustrating in the moment that he might not finish a sudden breakaway that can shift the game's complexion, I have a lot more patience with it knowing his finishing will revert to the mean and they will start going in. There are also plenty of other things to be focusing on within the team besides Kyrou. Figuring out which among the young talent will become the pillars is key to figuring out what we need to supplement going forward. Lot of possibility in who can emerge or not right now.

 

[Brian39]

While the Blues play this game has been outstanding, just remember the Jets are 2-4 in their last 6, being outscored and out shot by a healthy margin in that span.

Very much worth noting that the context of that slump is that all 6 of those games were on the road and 4 of the 6 games were against teams that are top 10 in the league standings (1st, 5th, 7th, and 10th).

I'm not saying that they've been playing their best hockey, but they probably weren't playing quite as bad as the results suggest. The 2 games before those 6 were a home and home against the Panthers that they split. The slump absolutely coincided with what is by far their most difficult 2 week stretch of their schedule. We caught them at a good time and I do think they are experiencing a post hot-streak slump.

But I do think that is a team that has still been playing like a good team. Not an elite team, but they still came in to that game as a touch opponent in the exact moment in time.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Jets have multiple injuries and are going through a rough stretch in their schedule with travel. Once they are getting their players back and they can get a little rest the wins will start piling up again.

 

[Stelmacki]

Jets have multiple injuries and are going through a rough stretch in their schedule with travel. Once they are getting their players back and they can get a little rest the wins will start piling up again.

So, like what the Blues are going through?

 

[Linkens Mastery]

So, like what the Blues are going through?

2 weeks ago yea. As a team we are in a much better place right now than we were when Thomas and Broberg were injured tho.

 

[joe galiba]

2 weeks ago yea. As a team we are in a much better place right now than we were when Thomas and Broberg were injured tho.

We were still missing Faulk, Buch and Leddy, all pretty important players, I don't think that the Jets were handicapped last night by injuries any more than we were