Post-Game Talk: Losing streak done Jets 4 - Kings 3

[surixon]

Decisions decisions ... who plays with Monahan and Connor when Toffoli comes back?

That line won him the game and ended the skid. He pretty much has to go back to it. I think the better question is how short of a leash that line will get next game.

 

[johnnyonthspot]

They only gave up two quality chances all game, both just happened to go in our net. They can definitely improve in that regard but they weren't as bad as the goals against would indicate. Top line gave up a lot more chances against for instance.

I agree that both lines were a mess on defence. Ehlers let Ardvarksen go free and either Perfetti or Connor failed to get out to the point to challange. Both led to goals. As long as they outscore their mistakes life is good.
I am still not convinced this team has turned the corner and will win a game let alone a round in the playoffs. I hope I am wrong.

 

[surixon]

I agree that both lines were a mess on defence. Ehlers let Ardvarksen go free and either Perfetti or Connor failed to get out to the point to challange. Both led to goals. As long as they outscore their mistakes life is good.
I am still not convinced this team has turned the corner and will win a game let alone a round in the playoffs. I hope I am wrong.

Definitely have a lot to improve on and little time to do it

 

[jetsfan15]

Who knew putting Ehlers on the top line would create an even better line with Connor Monahan and Perfetti.

Yes, that’s the best part in all of this. That whole Ehlers top line debate wasn’t really about whether the top line would in fact be better, it was more about how well the 2nd line was with Ehlers on it — Bones said this himself pre-game: he knows that the 27-55-13 were great, but also didn’t want to break up a good second line with Ehlers on it. The top line of 27-55-13 will do well long term, that wasn’t really the concern (or at least it wasn’t my concern). But the 2nd line tonight was really quite something. Can just imagine the top line finding their groove again and this 2nd line doing their thing like tonight… would be quite something!

 

[B33R LEAGUE]

smiley finally gave in.

Ladies and Gentleman.. We got him.

 

[johnnyonthspot]

Definitely have a lot to improve on and little time to do it

Agreed. I did notice a commitment to defence at first but then the second period and first 10 minutes of the third they were listless but finished strong.
One game closer to the real season ....
Clench time

 

[surixon]

I really don't know why we haven't seen more of Cole and KC together. They work well and that is shown in both the actual and underlying numbers. In nearly 200 minutes together over the last three years they have a 61 gf% and a 55 xgf%.

 

[Hunter368]

Was at the game, wasn’t a perfect game but some good signs.

Bottom 6 good

2nd line, good (how about that Cole P, very good game)

Top line, decent but just seemed a bit out of sync to me.

LB was solid, but I wouldn’t say great, at times he was a bit shakey. Not great or bad, but solid.

D core, just ok to me.

Weak coverage high slot a few times by the forwards in the defensive zone.

Overall solid game, not great but not bad, certainly some positives to take from it and build on.

Shout out to Ryan G final game as a NHL linesmen, great career.

Fun to go to game and watch a big victory

 

[bustamente]

 

[WolfgangPuck]

Have some more games to mix and match the top 6. Try Tyler on the 1st line and see if he has chemistry with someone from the 1st line keep Cole in the line up Give Ehlers a night off

 

[roccerfeller]

Origins, is it? OK, lets get to it.

Years ago, a certain rookie poster became frustrated with his team. He tried to express his frustration in real time with standard lexicon (often lurid), but found those adjectives strangely hollow, and lacking in punch.

Searching for new ways to urge his beloved charges onward, the poster resorted to taxonomic terms. The said poster was not above invoking phylogeny, nor ontogeny.

Species thought to be extinct (eg, the coelacanth - a truly ancient animal whose genes stopped incorporating random beneficial mutations hundreds of thousands of years ago with their occupation of the perfect ecological niche) provided a certain je n'est-ce quoi to our beloved hero's attempts to find gravitas in his exclamations (Table 1).

Table 1. Evolution of hockey exhortation.

2013. "FFS score you used-car mongering swine." and the classic "These refs only want to f@3% us!" Excitement level: bottom, dirt level.

2015. "Please score you useless bags of squalid effluent." Excitement level: low

2016. "Go you gravy-sucking salmon, examine your souls, Valhalla is calling!" Excitement level: Mid grade.

2017 aka the breakthrough year. "Skate, ye great suffering sacs of translucent coelacanth upper digestive tracts! Skate, wheel and celly ye overblown hydrogen sucking dirigibles!" Excitement level: High... this prose has punch.

The Jets per se become an allegory for aquatic biology, with their success as a species on the line with every game played. Variations on this theme involve
- water quality passing through their gills (red river sewage is the preferred medium).
- lobes, bouyancy sacs, notochord function becomes part of the functional pantheon.

And, there you have it. Hope this helps.

k.

This post belongs in the great archives of HFJets treasure posts

 

[raideralex99]

This is what winning hockey looks like ... you finish your checks.
Names takes Moore out of the play and Jets have a 4 on 3 going the other way and score the GWG.

 

[winnipegger]

@sipowicz do we like perfetti now or is he still perfetan?

 

[raideralex99]

Too funny ... looks like football on skates.

 

[Jets 31]

Nice win, now let's see if the Dude remembers how to do his victory dance and he doesn't pull a muscle, it's been a while.

 

[Jets 31]

Victory music, Let's get back to where we started from.

 

[Jets 31]

@sipowicz do we like perfetti now or is he still perfetan?

That's just how @sipowicz gets players playing better.

 

[Jets 31]

Columbus beats Colorado 4-1

 

[surixon]

It is looking very likely that we will play Colorado in round 1. I think we match up better against them then we do against Dallas.

 

[scelaton]

Yes, that’s the best part in all of this. That whole Ehlers top line debate wasn’t really about whether the top line would in fact be better, it was more about how well the 2nd line was with Ehlers on it — Bones said this himself pre-game: he knows that the 27-55-13 were great, but also didn’t want to break up a good second line with Ehlers on it. The top line of 27-55-13 will do well long term, that wasn’t really the concern (or at least it wasn’t my concern). But the 2nd line tonight was really quite something. Can just imagine the top line finding their groove again and this 2nd line doing their thing like tonight… would be quite something!

That's not all the debate was about. The other part of it was freeing Connor from Scheif, including the first-line matchups that he attracts, and seeing if he could have better metrics 5v5. Ideally that would translate into a better goal differential for him and the team, and more wins.

This was never about punishing Connor, but rather about allowing our top-6 offence to shine while changing his C and sheltering him a bit defensively.

 

[SensibleGuy]

A win you say? Well all right then! Please sir can I have another??

 

[Royale With Cheese]

Didn’t see the game but nice win.

The top line (E S V) did not get a single shot on net? Wut.

 

[GeorgeJETson]

Lovely game. Second best way to end a frustrating day.

Time to put Calgary in our sights and continue with our tune-up for the playoffs.

Now I gotta know.

What's the best way?

 

[LucianoBorsato]

@sipowicz do we like perfetti now or is he still perfetan?

He was satisifed and is now moving on to Toffoli and continuing on with Nino

 

[tarozi]

Was at the game and you could tell it was a Monday night not a weekend. Not much energy in the building. Low event game for the most part so right up our alley.

Something is off with 55, I'll just leave it at that. 27 is also struggling. My personal feeling is that 55 doesn't like the dump and grind it out style of play we are incorporating and it certainly doesn't fit Ehler's or Connor's game. Not saying it's the wrong system, just saying those players are not suited to play that way and a season of it takes a toll on their bodies.

CMC line was the difference in the game as far as offense.
44 is a beast and our best player. So much fun to watch him dance when everyone else is chasing him.
88 struggled but he's not lazy and is giving it his all, just father time taking it's toll.

I will say, we are too small of a team. We get pushed around and loose battles too easily.
Wow can LA fire the puck.

The pp sucks even worse in person. No plan other than to cycle it around the perimeter and get it down low where the play dies. At this point if they don't remove the coach in the off season, they should be fired themselves.