Series Discussion: Jets (C1) vs Blues (WC2) - Western Conference First Round
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Romang67
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The 2019 Blues were a wagon that had solved their only issue, goaltending, and was rolling into the playoffs against a Jets team that had been floundering since December. It was probably the playoff series I've felt the worst about in the past decade, except for the Knights series where we made the playoffs with 95 points.
The 2025 Blues haven't been the 2019 Blues, and the 2025 Jets haven't been the 2019 Jets.
The 2025 Blues haven't been the 2019 Blues, and the 2025 Jets haven't been the 2019 Jets.
I decided to take a shot in the dark and email my ticket rep about when game 1 is. He said they arent 100% sure yet and waiting on the league to confirm and should hopefully know tonight or tomorrow. Translation: they are waiting to see if Montreal clinches tonight or not.
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They also beat the Kings twice home and away before this easy patch. Beating Kings and Avs twice is not something all teams can claim to have done.
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Was hoping for Minny/Calgary because St. Louis is pretty hot right now but I think we can probably handle them
I'm ready to start the revenge tour against St. Louis.
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Blues Avs Knights. Let's do it.
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How has a first game date and time not been announced yet? This isn't a rubics cube, should have had this solved yesterday evening after the games were completed.
For what its worth, I am hearing Saturday first game, time TBD
For what its worth, I am hearing Saturday first game, time TBD
As someone pointed out, the Blues post-4Nations break began with a 4-3 shootout loss to the Jets.
L (SO) to WPG 4-3 (home, SO)
W over COL 3-1 (home, 2nd game of B2B)
W over SEA 7-2 (home)
W over WSH 5-2 (road, 4th game in 6 nights)
W over LAK 4-1 (home, 5th game in 7 nights)
L to DAL 6-3 (road, 2nd game of B2B, 6th game in 9 nights, first regulation loss since the break)
- 2 days off
W over LAK 3-2 (road, SO)
W over ANA 4-3 (road)
W over LAK 2-1 (road, OT, 2nd game of B2B)
- 4 days off
L to PIT 5-3 (road)
W over MIN 5-1 (road, start of the streak)
W over ANA 7-2 (home, 2nd game of B2B)
W over NSH 4-1 (road)
W over VAN 4-3 (home, OT, 4th game in 6 nights)
W over CHI 4-1 (home)
W over NSH 4-1 (home, 2nd game of B2B, 6th game in 9 nights)
W over MTL 6-1 (home)
W over NSH 3-2 (road)
W over COL 2-1 (road)
- 2 days off
W over DET 2-1 (home, OT)
W over PIT 5-4 (home, OT)
W over COL 5-4 (home)
L to WPG 3-1 (road, end of streak)
L to EDM 4-3 (road)
- 2 days off
L (SO) to SEA 4-3 (road, SO)
- 2 days off
W over UTA 6-1 (home)
That's a pretty tough schedule even though they got to face a few crap teams. 5 back-to-backs with a 4-1-0 record. A couple of 4-in-6 and 6-in-9s. Played the Kings 3 times, the Avs 3 times, the Jets twice, the Caps, and the Stars once each, going 7-2-1 against those teams. Not super weak...
their long win streak was pretty weak competition. not trying to say they're a poor team overall but stacking mid and bottom-feeders facilitated them to go on that run.
12-game stretch comprised of bottom feeders like CHI, NSH (3x!), ANH, PIT and mid teams like VAN, MTL, DET and MIN. that's 10/12. with COL being the only v good team they faced twice.
you can only play who the schedule dictates & they certainly get credit for sure for those victories it's still nhl teams/professionals.... but the pts% average of the opponents during those 12 games was 0.50.
King Woodballs
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"aaaaay"
As per The Athletic's Ates at 11:06am
There is currently a BTO concert scheduled at Canada Life Centre on Saturday. There is also an agreement for that concert to be moved, if it becomes necessary to start Game 1 against the Blues on Saturday. The Enterprise Center in St. Louis has building conflicts of its own: a Brooks & Dunn concert on April 25 and a Katt Williams performance on April 26.
There are combinations that work for Games 1 and 2, whether they’re played on Saturday and Monday or on Sunday and Tuesday. We’re all guessing until the NHL sorts out its game of scheduling Tetris; expect an official announcement on Wednesday.
Personally I've been hoping for a Sunday game 1, but many with inside sources have been told since the Presidents Trophy was finalized on Sunday that Game 1 will be this upcoming Saturday.
Understandable, can't move Brooks & Dunn there would probably be a city wide riot!
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First of all going on a winning streak is great and very hard to do reguardless who you play.
The five 5 B2B games is really 4 because the Preds were also playing B2B. The Kings B2B the Blues actually lost 2-1 not won. So the Blues record in 4 B2B was 2-1-1.
Bit of potential insider info from snooping around in the Blues sub-forum:
"I can't get into specifics but I have it on very good authority that Holloway is done for the year. Recoverable long-term. But not good. I'll leave it at that. We need to mentally move on as fans that he ain't comin back this yr."
They've looked a lot more beatable while Holloway has been out of their lineup. Hate to feel good about someone having a serious injury but on the other hand I think this greatly helps our odds of advancing.
"I can't get into specifics but I have it on very good authority that Holloway is done for the year. Recoverable long-term. But not good. I'll leave it at that. We need to mentally move on as fans that he ain't comin back this yr."
They've looked a lot more beatable while Holloway has been out of their lineup. Hate to feel good about someone having a serious injury but on the other hand I think this greatly helps our odds of advancing.
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It’s not just one concert, St. Louis have back to back events next week on Friday / Saturday.Understandable, can't move Brooks & Dunn there would probably be a city wide riot!
As per The Athletic's Ates at 11:06am
There is currently a BTO concert scheduled at Canada Life Centre on Saturday. There is also an agreement for that concert to be moved, if it becomes necessary to start Game 1 against the Blues on Saturday. The Enterprise Center in St. Louis has building conflicts of its own: a Brooks & Dunn concert on April 25 and a Katt Williams performance on April 26.
There are combinations that work for Games 1 and 2, whether they’re played on Saturday and Monday or on Sunday and Tuesday. We’re all guessing until the NHL sorts out its game of scheduling Tetris; expect an official announcement on Wednesday.
Personally I've been hoping for a Sunday game 1, but many with inside sources have been told since the Presidents Trophy was finalized on Sunday that Game 1 will be this upcoming Saturday.
So a Saturday start would indicate:
Game 1: Saturday 4/19
Game 2: Monday 4/21
Game 3: Thursday 4/24
Game 4: Sunday 4/27
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Who cares about the schenn brothers
The story of this series is helle vs binnington
The story of this series is helle vs binnington
Hmmm....he seems pretty important.
| Blues 5v5 | CF% | FF% | SF% | GF-GA | xGF% | SCF% | HDCF% |
| w/Holloway | 52% | 52% | 54% | 58-34 +24 | 53% | 53% | 57% |
| w/o Holloway | 47% | 48% | 48% | 117-113 +4 | 48% | 49% | 48% |
That's the whole season. They've been without him for a while and doing alright but it's mostly from their crazy shooting percentage. They haven't been as bad as above though, in terms of metrics.
Last 24 games at 5v5, Neighbours is shooting 33%, Parayko 25% (in only 7 gp), Buchnevich 24%, Leddy 22% (come on...), Bolduc 21% and Holloway 20%. This looks like the Jets powerplay before the break where everyone was shooting over 20%.
Last 3 years prior to this one at 5v5, Neighbors shot 15%, Parayko 4%, Buchnevich 12%, Leddy 4%, Bolduc 16%, and Holloway wasn't there and I'm not looking up his Edmonton stats. Those are the means to which we'd expect those shooting percentages to regress.
Here's Ehlers...
| Jets 5v5 | CF% | FF% | SF% | GF-GA | xGF% | SCF% | HDCF% |
| w/Ehlers | 53% | 54% | 54% | 38-22 +16 | 55% | 52% | 53% |
| w/o Ehlers | 49% | 50% | 50% | 131-96 +35 | 52% | 51% | 54% |
Here's Vilardi...and the Jets without him and without both him and Ehlers.
| Jets 5v5 | CF% | FF% | SF% | GF-GA | xGF% | SCF% | HDCF% |
| w/Vilardi | 48% | 48% | 47% | 55-38 +17 | 51% | 50% | 52% |
| w/o Vilardi | 51% | 52% | 52% | 114-80 +34 | 53% | 52% | 54% |
| w/o 27+13 | 50% | 51% | 51% | 80-59 +21 | 52% | 52% | 55% |
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Edmonton was so stupid letting him and Broberg walk. Morons.
When you have a team like the Oilers, with such scant offensive talent, sacrifices have to be made so you can bring in guys like Jeff Skinner, Viktor Arvidsson and Adam Henrique!
When you have a team like the Oilers, with such scant offensive talent, sacrifices have to be made so you can bring in guys like Jeff Skinner, Viktor Arvidsson and Adam Henrique!
We should be all over the offer sheet route this summer with our cap space.
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I selfishly hope it's Saturday since I'm hosting Easter Sunday.
I really like the Jets chances and hope Hellebucyk has a lights out series to prove all the haters wrong.
I really like the Jets chances and hope Hellebucyk has a lights out series to prove all the haters wrong.
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They also have to pinch pennies in order to afford Darnell Nurse's 9.25M or whatever the f*** they're paying that pylon lolWhen you have a team like the Oilers, with such scant offensive talent, sacrifices have to be made so you can bring in guys like Jeff Skinner, Viktor Arvidsson and Adam Henrique!
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