Post-Game Talk: Jets reel in the Kraken win 5-3

[SUX2BU]

I'm not sure that would be any better given the history NHL refs have of looking the other way at penalties and "managing" games. Would you really want someone like Francois St. Laurent heading the DoPS?

duh, okay

How about Paul Kariya?

Sure, if he reffed, but a good choice

Or a failed drama teacher?

you’re protesting my choice?

 

[Jets 31]

Somehow feel like the Scheifele hit isn't getting as much discussion here or the main board only because by some miracle he wasn't seriously hurt. So it goes from a nothing play that the DOPS won't even look at to where if he goes in slightly different and gets seriously injured it's now a terrible hit and a suspension.

Personally, it's long past due that the DOPS, and all the league mouthpieces switch looking at hits and their suspensions with the outcome as a factor. IMO, that hit was as dangerous and dirty as any other. More dangerous and dirty than Scheifele hitting Evans a half second late which according to some was the worst hit ever.

That was such a dirty hit by Gorde, Scheifele was 3 feet away from the boards, i still have no idea how Scheifele wasn't seriously injured.

 

[Ducky10]

For me on the Morrissey thing, it felt like folks (some) were solely looking at the stats and using that as the only basis for saying he was terrible and should be traded. He did have an underwhelming stretch, but I think the nuance was a little lost at times. IMO, he was left holding close to the entire bag on defense, and that's already on a team with terrible defensive forwards and overall team play. I felt that JoMo was a better player than his numbers were showing.

Agreed, I took it in the neck for at least a solid year defending JoMo. I know he wasn’t playing all that well but many of the things you point out were glossed over. I’m not surprised he’s turned his play around.

 

[AlphaLackey]

He has played well in Vegas but I don't think we have missed Brossoit at all this year

Agreed. Comrie has fit the backup role almost perfectly; I was among his early detractors but he very quickly won me over this year. I'd like to see him play a bit more, in fact.

 

[buggs]

Yeah, I think many people were a bit shallow in their analysis of Morrissey, in that they looked at his (bad) stats, saw that players like Poolman performed better away from Morrissey, and assumed this meant he was a lost cause.

As you say, I think there were many factors that played in on Morrissey's poor performance. Removing Buff was massive. His dad, added pressure of having to be #1, and what seemed to be a bum shoulder. I'm over the moon that he looks like he's back to being good, because I was really worried about him after the past 3 seasons.

To be fair to those critical of Morrissey we really didn't know about his father's illness until after the fact. The impact of an illness to a parent on a child is massive and can't be really appreciated until you go through it. I've not dug into it but I have no idea how long Morrissey's dad was ill, but it certainly could have covered those couple of seasons when his performance was questionable.

The other impacts are real but I'd be content with attributing most of his underperformance to his father's illness and the impact on him. As I understand it his dad had a substantial role and impact on his development as a hockey player and emotionally they were very, very close. Hard to deal with what may have been your father, hero and possibly best friend facing a terminal illness.