Post-Game Talk: Jets 2 - Kraken 1

[Mortimer Snerd]

I really make sure I just enjoy this ride because it’s fleeting in sports.

Having said that, it’s human nature to look at ways to improve even further. Every improvement will get us closer to the Stanley Cup.

Exactly. Enjoy this regular season. It is the best one Jets have had since the Aavco Cup winning days. It may well be a once in a lifetime season for Jets fans. The PO will be a whole other season. I hope it will be as good, but if not this regular season will not be diminished.

That doesn't mean we can't ponder changes, improvements, the wisdom of rentals, etc.

 

[Buffdog]

Oh come on. Connor and Scheif together have been a problem for years until they turned it around this year. How many years? As many as they have been together. And both of them were consistently better when they played apart. Numbers, eye-test, every way you could look at it. Was Arniel right? In the end yes, and I suspect he had something to do with the change since the problem had existed for so long under so many other coaches.

I don't know how he did it but I am glad he did. That has freed him up to do other things with other lines. Obviously we have to give Scheif and Connor credit too.

None of that means that those of us calling for a change for years were wrong. It means that the problem was fixed another way. Not that it didn't exist.

What if they would have separated Schief and Connor last year... and this year, Ehlers and Schief would be inferior to what Connor andSchief have become

Making a change for the sake of making a change doesn't always pay off in the long run

So far I think one poster has had the balls to say "I was wrong" about Connor and Schief being kept together long enough to get this result

 

[Adam da bomb]

What if they would have separated Schief and Connor last year... and this year, Ehlers and Schief would be inferior to what Connor andSchief have become

Making a change for the sake of making a change doesn't always pay off in the long run

So far I think one poster has had the balls to say "I was wrong" about Connor and Schief being kept together long enough to get this result

We can never really know what ifs. All we know is what the current situation is which is the csv looks great.

 

[Gm0ney]

What if they would have separated Schief and Connor last year... and this year, Ehlers and Schief would be inferior to what Connor andSchief have become

Making a change for the sake of making a change doesn't always pay off in the long run

So far I think one poster has had the balls to say "I was wrong" about Connor and Schief being kept together long enough to get this result

Scheifele and Connor this year are still not as good as Scheifele and Ehlers were last year, so what are you hypothetically worried about?

Attempting to optimize your lines is not making a change for the sake of making a change. It's making a change for the sake of making the team better.

And wrong about what, exactly? Like what's the confession of sin here? "Oh, gee, I guess those 3 or 4 years of Scheifele and Connor together just breaking even on goals and getting swamped in the metrics and analytics was all worth it because they've been really clicking for a couple of months now!"