Post-Game Talk: Huge comeback win! Jets 4-3

[Puckatron 3000]

I didn't want to let this game go by without saying something in the PGT. That's about as feel-good win as you'll see in the regular season.

I was encouraged to hear Maurice say he wanted to run with Roslovic on Little's line for another game. I really hope Roslo can keep up his impressive play. Little's line has been an interesting puzzle this year. As the year has progressed I think the pieces have been coming together. And Frenchie is a key to making it work.

The new puzzle pieces are Ehlers, Laine, and Connor. If Connor stays up with Scheif and Wheels, that makes E&L the odd men out. Lowry, when healthy, could be the defensive force that glues these two young wingers together into an effective line. As much as I like Copp, I'm not sure he can handle that role, unless E&L up their defensive game. Depending on Lowry's injury status, and how the lines shake out over the next couple games, this center role could be an area of interest for a trade deadline acquisition. Also, when Lowry's healthy Maurice may be hesitant to break up his highly effective shutdown line.

That being said, things change fast in the world of hockey, and what worked last game might be a disaster in the next. It'll be real interesting to see how Maurice handles the lines, how the players jockey for top line minutes, and how Chevy responds at the TD.

Fun time to be a Jets fan!

 

[pucka lucka]

When was the last time Copp hit the net?

When's his birthday?

 

[Eyeseeing]

I didn't want to let this game go by without saying something in the PGT. That's about as feel-good win as you'll see in the regular season.

I was encouraged to hear Maurice say he wanted to run with Roslovic on Little's line for another game. I really hope Roslo can keep up his impressive play. Little's line has been an interesting puzzle this year. As the year has progressed I think the pieces have been coming together. And Frenchie is a key to making it work.

The new puzzle pieces are Ehlers, Laine, and Connor. If Connor stays up with Scheif and Wheels, that makes E&L the odd men out. Lowry, when healthy, could be the defensive force that glues these two young wingers together into an effective line. As much as I like Copp, I'm not sure he can handle that role, unless E&L up their defensive game. Depending on Lowry's injury status, and how the lines shake out over the next couple games, this center role could be an area of interest for a trade deadline acquisition. Also, when Lowry's healthy Maurice may be hesitant to break up his highly effective shutdown line.

That being said, things change fast in the world of hockey, and what worked last game might be a disaster in the next. It'll be real interesting to see how Maurice handles the lines, how the players jockey for top line minutes, and how Chevy responds at the TD.

Fun time to be a Jets fan!

You know before the miracle happened I was thinking ok another loss but lots of season left yet.
The fact they pulled it out of the fire makes me think they are dominant the rest of this home stand.
Maurice probably coached his best game of the year.
Fun times absolutely
GJG

 

[ecolad]

Matty P is right now the best overall player on the Jets IMO.

The fact that fans want us to acquire nash, and bump him down reveal how stupid they are.

Perreault may not be the best overall player on the Jets right now BUT he is probably the player who they can least afford to lose to injury going forward. Just stop and think about it .... he is clearly the catalyst that makes almost all lines that he is placed on, from top line to bottom, go. My concern quite frankly is that teams strategy planning against the Jets may well decide to target him for extra physical play in hope of getting him out of the lineup.

 

[CaptainChef]

First time poster, been following here for about 5 years so don’t go to hard on me.
The blaming Laine for basically every goal while he is on the ice is getting kinda lame and people need to realize he is 19 learning the game still (players like shef, wheeler etc were still in college or junior at this age). The first goal was all Myers and another goal was a terrible rebound right onto the caps player stick ( hard to defend not knowing where the rebound is going).

Some quick thoughts:
The main reason why Myers was traded from buffalo was that he couldn’t handle the big minutes and we saw that today.
Little played a really good game especially in the 3rd but he is slowly declining and 6 more years after this year is concerning for cap reasons.
The power play seems to be lacking as the puck distribution is not quite quick enough and having buff take wrist shots that are head high is just killing the momentum and effectiveness of the power play.

Great first post & accurate thoughts IMO. Buff can be very effective for rushing the puck up ice on the PP, but as a shooter he's really bad at hammering it into the defenders shins and especially missing the net. Not ready to give up on Little yet, but he definitely needs the right wingers (please no more Ehlers - Laine with Little)

 

[cbcwpg]

Braden Holtby calls Caps play at end of third period 'arrogant'

 

[cbcwpg]

 

[Jetfaninflorida]

Can't say enough about the Wheeler interview. He again is displaying the right attitude about not prematurely celebrating - having not even made the f'ing playoffs yet. And stop talking about the Stanley cup - how about winning a playoff game. Maybe now when some of us suggest tapping the brakes on how we are making a run to the final, people will stop calling us haters or not real fans or whatever was said. Cant recall the exact criticism but thats what it feels like sometimes when facts/reality is injected in to some of these discussions.

Great win yesterday. This team needs to learn that this is what it will take to win games down the stretch and in the postseason. 90% effort gets you golf. 100% effort gives you a chance.

 

[SensibleGuy]

that's awesome.

 

[SensibleGuy]

Can't say enough about the Wheeler interview. He again is displaying the right attitude about not prematurely celebrating - having not even made the f'ing playoffs yet. And stop talking about the Stanley cup - how about winning a playoff game. Maybe now when some of us suggest tapping the brakes on how we are making a run to the final, people will stop calling us haters or not real fans or whatever was said. Cant recall the exact criticism but thats what it feels like sometimes when facts/reality is injected in to some of these discussions.

Great win yesterday. This team needs to learn that this is what it will take to win games down the stretch and in the postseason. 90% effort gets you golf. 100% effort gives you a chance.

oh relax! Jeez. We all know nothing has been accomplished yet. Most of us who mention playoff runs are talking about it from the perspective that the Jets are in the mix. They are one of the teams you could look at and say yeah, they have a shot. Nobody is predicting victory parades yet.

 

[Aavco Cup]

Yes, they did post-game when it was the added cost (at least from MTS) TSN Jets channel. When they moved to regular TSN coverage, it was back to Toronto to hear about the Leafs and Raptors.

There is a post game show on JetsTV online.

I don't think the dropping of the post show was related to the money you paid for TSNJets. IIRC all of that went to the cable providers. It likely has more to do with the fact the regular channels have established programming that garners more ad revenue than could be achieved by running a post game show in place of it.

 

[Jetfaninflorida]

oh relax! Jeez. We all know nothing has been accomplished yet. Most of us who mention playoff runs are talking about it from the perspective that the Jets are in the mix. They are one of the teams you could look at and say yeah, they have a shot. Nobody is predicting victory parades yet.

But I am relaxed.

 

[SensibleGuy]

But I am relaxed.

oh...ok. carry on then!

 

[BoneDocUK]

Talk about a bit of an overreaction. Many coaches move great young players down the line up at times. The great Mitch Marker has seen countless shifts and games on the Leafs fourth line. It hasn't hurt him.

What Maurice is doing comes out of the stretch goal development school. They are putting them in situations a bit outside their comfort zone and it isn't always pretty but there have been times where Laine has taken games over on his own. He's a young player that is still working on consistency. The Jets are one of if not the best organizations at developing forwards I think you need to sit back and let this play out over the span of a few years. Laine won' be challenged near as much playing with Scheife and the org knows it.

They want more from Laine then 45 goal trigger man that can only be highly effective playing with one of the games best centers. As a fan of his you should want that as well. I get it' frustrating sometimes seeing players you like struggle or not being put in a situation where you think they would excel more. Maurice said it best, you could put anyone with Chef and Wheeler the way they played tonight. I know it might sound contradictory but Connor Is clearly down thevdwpth chart, he is used with Scheifele and Wheeler because he isn't at a point where the org can stretch him out like they are doing with Laine and Ehlers.

Just chiming in to say great post -- some version of this should be stickied, and trotted out every time a fave player has his ice time cut or is line-swapped. PP looking sluggish again -- need to have a better distributor on the half-wall (Laine is already better at this than Wheeler, IMO). Petan or Connor should get another shot there, seniority be damned. No position should be a sinecure.

Man, that was a fun 3rd. Just a shout-out to a few unheralded good games: Chairot was solid, Armia made some great plays to reign in the game, and though that was the best overall game I've seen Petan and Connor play in a while. Great to see 55 back, and to see the team dig deep after 3 meh or worse outings in a row. Teams that go far need talisman players, and the Jets have a team full of 'em. What a time to be a fan.

 

[Aavco Cup]

Wheeler is technically correct that the Jets have yet to qualify for the playoffs. But at the same time the chain of events that would have to occur for the Jets not to qualify would be historic. As in historic collapses. The playoff math prediction sites have the Jets as virtual locks for a reason. 10-15-0 is probably enough to get the job done. Our points pct is north of .650. For a team like that to suddenly get bad enough to turn into a sub .400 team (absolutely horrific by today's NHL standard) is just not a realistic probability.

But I loved that he said what he did to the local media. He's telling everyone to take it one game st a time and don't get ahead of yourselves.

 

[Calendal]

oh relax! Jeez. We all know nothing has been accomplished yet. Most of us who mention playoff runs are talking about it from the perspective that the Jets are in the mix. They are one of the teams you could look at and say yeah, they have a shot. Nobody is predicting victory parades yet.

The team needs to keep focus on next game (unless you get those odd few ones at end with zero stakes). Fans are not on ice, though so I think jumping the gun can be fun

 

[SCP Guy]

Best part (other then winning) was watching about 30 people in my section do the walk of shame back to their seats taking their jackets off before overtime .....

 

[Ducky10]

That's a season defining win imo, glad they pulled that out because they deserved to win with all the chances they created.

I know he scored the OT winner and good on him but Myers needs to get his head out of his ass sometimes. His brain dead play in the 1st on the Caps goal had me in a bad mood most of the game, like wtf? He is so slow to move the puck and lugs it up the ice waaaay too often. If anyone wants to see a big difference in his game and Buff's, look no further than that. Buff was excellent again last night btw, all over the ice. Strongest Jets D by a long shot. Toby was also very good.

Great win, glad to see Scheif back closer to his old self. What can yo say about Perreault's game, so valuable.

 

[ecolad]

Some of our talented wingers have been singled out for their apparent "defensive shortcomings", as they have struggled to maintain position/coverage on Capitals who scored while attacking the net. Certainly they must learn to be stronger in this aspect of the game but IMO the defensive zone coverage system used by the Jets is now being exploited by better prepared teams. The issue here is simply this - two of their deep forwards rotate away from netfront taking our D with them, with the attack on net taken up by their two defencemen and third forward. This leaves our centers/forwards who are shadowing these guys trying to do tasks that they have never been schooled to do. By this I mean simply boxing out the front of the net/ tying up a threatening stick/taking correct body position on the man/ etc. I suspect that this will be exploited even more as teams do more game-planning for a playoff series of games.

 

[Atoyot]

Brings me back to my favorite game to watch the highlights of.



Also, kind of surprised that there isn't a main thread on the Byfuglien slash. Could see him sitting a game for that.

 

[Tommigun]

This was ... beyond words. The late short handed goal, the incredible save on Morrissey’s breakaway (one of the best saves I’ve ever seen) that had my mouth gaping, to the game winning goal.
I still can’t believe this happened. Dare to say one more time that the Jets are mentally fragile, I dare you!

 

[Huffer]

I agree. Connor has played well and produced with a variety of line-mates, not just Scheif-Wheeler.

Roslovic is a dynamic player. He makes every line better, sort of like Perreault. I think he projects to be a bigger, faster Perreault, with a better shot. He is a dandy.

With Vesalainen coming, and Spacek showing good potential (I think the Jets' management really like Spacek as a C prospect), I think Petan is going to be better off finding a role on another team.

Having said that, Petan has been much better during this stint than I've seen him in the past. He really looks like an NHLer now.

I've liked Petan a lot in his last few games. Might just be eye test bias, but he does seem to be playing a bit faster, and getting a little harder along the boards.

He does seem to get worse assignments than Connor and Roslo though, which is why I was thinking out loud if it would work to try Petan between Laine and Ehlers for a bit. At least at home where Maurice can dictate matchups.

 

[Huffer]

Which is why it's incredibly important for Trouba to be re-signed long term in the off-season. Top pairing defenders don't grow on trees, and Buff/Myers are _not_ first pairing defenders; Myers needs sheltering, and Buff is getting too old for it now. Trouba is in that right age and is an incredible defender. That should be priority #1 this off season. Hopefully Trouba likes that the Jets are winning games and are likely making the playoffs this year.

Agreed. Hopefully Trouba thinks this team can win, and both he and Morrissey see the value in playing together for the next 6 years plus.

 

[BoneDocUK]

Yeah the concert is a reasonable explanation for the situation. It was nuts how guys were blowing tires all game long. However, while I assumed it had to be the ice it was weird how it seemed to be mostly only Jets who were falling.

It's the GPS tracking system they have embedded in their skates. When it fails, it fails hard.

Against the Blues the Jets were falling all over the place too -- behind the home net and the Zamboni gates seemed to be the worst spots, and the home redline boards too. I wonder if there are some structural trouble-spots that require an extended time to fix? It is tough to watch for sure.

 

[Atoyot]

Buff and Bowey both fined max allowable.