Post-Game Talk: River City Blues, Jets lose 4-2

[schmockeyknife]

Frustrating , so is this a team holding back or a team that has no chemistry?
I don’t know what to think.

they're holding back their chemistry?

 

[Hems55]

Tough game to watch...just keep making bad lineup decisions. Coaching is an issue...especially on defense.

 

[Eyeseeing]

Tawny Kitaen passed away today.

Edit: Buffdogg beat me to it. Posted before I saw his.

Same age as me .... that’s too young

 

[WPGChief]

Just wait until they bounce back in time for the playoffs lol

FLIP. THE. SWITCH!

 

[rkp]

Neither the Jets or Canadians seem like they want in to the PO’s, Sens and Nucks still playing hard and are both more deserving!

one has to wonder how many of the jets players feel this way

 

[schmockeyknife]

Same age as me .... that’s too young

me too

 

[rkp]

FLIP. THE. SWITCH!

if u r in the dark now...can u find the switch

 

[Guardian17]

Maurice just admitted the Jets will not win in the Playoffs unless they improve our team defense.

 

[WolfHouse]

Once again it was the correct decision to turn the game off and just read the GDT - at least i was entertained

No comments about the lines and pairings because I see nothing redeeming about this team’s effort - if wheels and Scheif are the room leaders, they should be ashamed

 

[winnipegger]

Didn’t mind most of the game. Couple of nice tip in Goals early by the Sens against the flow of play were the difference.

Our bottom pair had an REALLY rough game. I think Forbot is done. He needs to sit for a few games and collect himself.

Ottawa is well coached and have a good young team.

Without Ehlers we are a different team.

The Jets also hit 3 posts in the first 10 minutes. Dubois had am empty net and hit the post. I don't know why they can't score. @Jet said in the gdt they haven't scored over 2 goals in 9 games. Wtf. This was an offensively talented team 2 months ago. Ehlers obviously but he's not McDavid the Jets don't totally rely on him.

 

[WolfHouse]

Maurice just admitted the Jets will not win in the Playoffs unless they improve our team defense.

Is he demanding we trade for Ekholm?

 

[schmockeyknife]

Maurice just admitted the Jets will not win in the Playoffs unless they improve our team defense.

good thing he was working on it all year

 

[heretik27]

Maurice just admitted the Jets will not win in the Playoffs unless they improve our team defense.

But I thought he said we were trending in the right direction last game? Damn!

 

[mondo3]

I don't see MTL passing us as they play EDM for their final 2 games.

 

[Mud Turtle]

I'll still watch all 4 playoff games. This game means nothing. Rest half the team next 2 games and tune up for the Leafs.

Maurice never rests anyone. Just ask Connor Hellebuyck.
Resting people to try and get any extra advantage possible would be the obvious thing to do... which of course means that Maurice will do the opposite.

 

[DharmaBum]

Last year was "Flip the switch". Couldn't do it. Bad wiring.
This year it's "Change gears".
Better call J.B. 'cause our transmission's shot.

 

[rkp]

see the kid in the underage games ....breaking or tieing mcdavids record and he is only 16...shame we wont have a chance to pick him
2023 draft

 

[schmockeyknife]

But I thought he said we were trending in the right direction last game? Damn!

he's so full of shit. i stopped listening to him last year. just completely spinning

 

[Mud Turtle]

WTH.... another loss to the almighty Sens. A 15th overall team losing to the 25th (before their win) to a 22nd team at this time of year speaks volumes of 1) the mental state of the Jets, and 2) what one can expect to see in the playoffs.

Good post.
I’ve missed your awesome Avatar.

 

[sipowicz]

Maurice just admitted the Jets will not win in the Playoffs unless they improve our team defense.

well I admit the Jets will not win in the PO’s if Maurice is the head coach!

 

[bustamente]

This teams problems start and end in our own end, no idea what to do with the puck by players that are used to much considering their talent level and the unwillingness of a coach to play younger players who show promise moving the puck

 

[rkp]

whats the old saying...crap rolls downhill

 

[buggs]

First period was ok, but then we started coasting inexplicably for significant parts of the game, in spite of trailing. Not our worst effort, but altogether too familiar.

Credit to the Sens though, they are playing well and I believe have the inverse record or close to it over the last ten games. That's good for them, but all the more frustrating to me as I watch all that youth come together in dynamic fashion. Contrast that with the Jets/Mau's penchant for aging grinders, glue guys and assorted other hanger-ons.

I don't doubt for a second our record would likely be worse and we may well have missed the playoffs had we gone with a substantial youth movement. I'd even agree we should have had a guy like Lewis on the team, but not multiples of the same thing as we've seen year after year. It would have been an excellent year to work all of Stanley, Samberg and Heinola into the rotation regularly, not sporadically or not at all in the case of Samberg. Pionk, DeMelo, Morrissey should have been the core and you mix in the rest, including a vet (does Poolman count as a vet?) or two on occasions. Full acknowledgement of requirements hanging over their head for the expansion draft, so I get you have to play Boo-Boo, but really? Same could have been said for the forward lineup. Gus and Vesalainen could have been given regular roles to show what they had. Let Gus cut his teeth as 4th C. Of course anything meaningful would mean not putting CSW out there for 25 minutes a game, so it's a ludicrous suggestion on my part.

I'm afraid I don't believe there's a switch to be thrown. Hellebuyck remains the wild card who could lead us to (limited IMO) success but I'm not seeing it in his play of late. He may have a switch though. But our top two lines haven't been particularly stellar for the last 20% of the season. Don't know why, don't know what, but the team isn't working well now. Meesa sad.

 

[Slimy Sculpin]

I really wonder if there will be though. Jets are too loyal to a fault.

They (Chipman et al.) may be loyal but a lot of fans/season ticket holders will be walking away if there isn't a coaching change.

 

[ps241]

I still believe.

I have no reason to, but I do.

Go Jets Go!!

It doesn’t cost anything, and it doesn’t hurt so why not! If Ehlers is back semi healthy who knows but without that I feel less optimistic but will be pulling for the boys.