I thought last year Utah should have had more points, and make the playoffs this year, but overall I guess a guy can't be too mad. Utah is in a very tough conference.
Stop sugar coating Crouse's play this year. He was crap plain and simple. Why AT only sat him out one game and continued to sit Maccelli is beyond me, only to play Carcone and Yamamoto is a head scratcher.
Yet BA praised him because Crouse had to adapt to a different role this year. Maybe the coach couldn't, wouldn't or plain out didn't know how to put Crouse and Maccelli in a position to succeed. But at the end of the day, it's most times the player's fault for shitty the bed. To be honest a couple of others shit the bed as well. We will need all players hitting on all eight next year to make the playoffs.
Losing 2 of your top 3 D for half the season hurts. As does never really knowing whether you’ll have a backup goalie or not.
I hate using injuries as an excuse, but that did hurt, no doubt.
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Not before January he wasn’t. For the entirety of 2024 he was not only not producing but he was also lousy at everything else that has made him valuable previously. We’ve seen some glimmers of hope in 2025. I don’t think he’ll have another year as bad as 2024. Not until his final season in the league anyway. But he was not good in any way shape or form in 2024.
Could end up almost being in the top 5 with a win tomorrow. Crazy just how bad the WPG/ARI teams have all mostly been over the years.
In most of those 45 seasons the league didn't award points to losers.Going back to the original Winnipeg Jets and their first NHL season in 1979-80 (45 seasons ago) - UHC's cutrent 89 points is the 9th most points this team (WPG, ARI, UHC) has ever had.
A .549 P% is a 4-way tie for the 7th best percentage over that same span.
If they beat STL tomorrow and end up with 91 points and a .554 P% it changes to 6th best all-time for both stats.
This is a top 10 season!
Back in the Jets days we had to deal with Calgary and Edmonton too. Even when we had the Fab 4 we couldn't get past Edmonton.
haha - whoops...I meant four guys with sixty or more points. I guess I had 6's on my brain. Which at almost 60 is probably full of holes and surface scum by now.
