They were chasing their tails after Werenski pinched and put the puck back down low. Wheeler was along the wall and Pionk cane up to support it, but Werenski was able to get there first and out the puck deep again. Rosie is the low forward at this point but he just kind of stands there and let’s Pionk race back across the ice to try and pursue the puck that has gone to the opposite wall, where Morrissey was and back down low again. If you watch that part of the sequence, Ehlers is fine, but Rosie is still sort of lost and pretty much standing in the same spot. After the Jackets first attempt, the puck goes back in the corner, Wheeler has come back down low again, Rosie still pretty much glued to the same spot, Ehlers loses track of Jones a bit (it was a great switch tbh) but there is no way in the world the Jets should have been beat with 4 guys on that side of the ice. I’m not sure Rosie picking up Foligno makes that much difference, somebody needed to pick up Jones’s movement earlier and picked up the switch, but they were still entirely focused on trying to find a check. Ultimately Rosie was in the best spot to pick up Jones but he failed to react and watched the whole thing.
At the end of the day, it was a pretty mass failure on the part of whatever it is they are supposed to be doing. It’s a difficult scheme to execute and very hard to recover when a breakdown occurs. There is just very little support when something like that happens , other than your goaltender.
Watching that whole thing unfold helps me understand why they don’t want Rosie playing C though.
But seriously thank you for the break down.
