Howard Chuck
Registered User
I've been thinking about my back and forth here yesterday and thought I would try to post concisely what I feel this year, if anyone cares 
I love hockey, it's my favorite sport. The Jets are obviously my favorite team. I still get excited for every single game and I high five anyone around me for any goal scored by anyone on the team.
Like many of you, I spend the entire season rearranging my schedule where possible, to watch games live, although not as much as those on the other side of the world. Much props to you folks!
The season is 8 or hopefully 9 months long or so, the longer the better obviously.
There are many things out of anyone's control and that is especially apparent this season. It's just been one disaster after another. To be perfectly honest, I don't care if it's someone's fault (Chevy/Maurice) why our roster is built the way it is. It doesn't matter to me at this point, because it is what it is now and it's my team.
What I do care about is taking this (now) underdog team and using every ounce of strategy, analytics, motivation, physical performance, chemistry (I know some of you hate this term ), research and whatever else is available, to make this group of very young and talented forwards, and depleted D corps the very best they can be. I'll leave goaltending out of it, because it's been great anyway so far.
If all of the above means a losing season, but we've tried everything, I'm fine with that. But if we do inefficient things and leave options off the table, I get frustrated watching other teams make adjustments and learn from the past.
TL;DR - We have what we have for a roster. Our forward group is very talented, our D is very depleted, our Goaltending has been very good. As a fan who is going to watch every game all season, I only want to see this group maximized like other teams are doing.
YMMV.
I love hockey, it's my favorite sport. The Jets are obviously my favorite team. I still get excited for every single game and I high five anyone around me for any goal scored by anyone on the team.
Like many of you, I spend the entire season rearranging my schedule where possible, to watch games live, although not as much as those on the other side of the world. Much props to you folks!
The season is 8 or hopefully 9 months long or so, the longer the better obviously.
There are many things out of anyone's control and that is especially apparent this season. It's just been one disaster after another. To be perfectly honest, I don't care if it's someone's fault (Chevy/Maurice) why our roster is built the way it is. It doesn't matter to me at this point, because it is what it is now and it's my team.
What I do care about is taking this (now) underdog team and using every ounce of strategy, analytics, motivation, physical performance, chemistry (I know some of you hate this term
), research and whatever else is available, to make this group of very young and talented forwards, and depleted D corps the very best they can be. I'll leave goaltending out of it, because it's been great anyway so far.If all of the above means a losing season, but we've tried everything, I'm fine with that. But if we do inefficient things and leave options off the table, I get frustrated watching other teams make adjustments and learn from the past.
TL;DR - We have what we have for a roster. Our forward group is very talented, our D is very depleted, our Goaltending has been very good. As a fan who is going to watch every game all season, I only want to see this group maximized like other teams are doing.
YMMV.
