The Nash/Pahlsson comparison is spot on. And we get him for 3 more years!
I don't consider the CBJ a pretty good team. I think they are a border line playoff team who have occasional stretches of red hot play.
When I watch other games and good teams I am struck by the difference in skating and passing abilities they have over the Jackets. I believe the Jackets are less than a sum of their parts (some of which aren't so good on their own). Even last night's one goal was a fluke bouncing off a Coyote skate. Great hustle and effort by PLD but a fluke nonetheless.
The next 8 games include a west coast swing, Dallas & Washington. It wouldn't surprise me to see another 4-4 split. That would leave the Jackets at a point a game pace 20% thru the season. It could be worse. I'd be pleasantly surprised if it was much better.
I hope you are right, but the hot streak needs to come soon. The burden of Bob/Panarin limbo is not insignificant- if for no one else but me. Missing the pure joy of watching them play.It's their ability to have those red hot stretches that makes me think they're capable of being a consistent "pretty good team." And that's also why I'm hesitant to blame much of this on the Bob/Panarin situations, as current state just feels par for the course to me more or less.
Like the slow 15 goal plug that he is.How's jenner looked so far this season?
Still can't believe the front office and coaching jokers got extended this summer instead of going through this season and seeing where the team stood. Just means firing them gets more expensive
Just means owner doesn't care.
Too early, call when there are 20 games left, he usually waking up at this time.How's jenner looked so far this season?
No it doesn't. If he drops that likely going over his shoulder. Going into a butterfly wouldn't have changed anything.If he drops into the "butterfly", the puck hits him.
Or is that what he's worried about?
I don't now why you left PK from that?1) Snakebit shooters - short term fluctuation. (this is commonly paired with "guys gripping sticks" and bad passing - all short term fluctuation).
2) Bob stinks - short term fluctuation? (not sure.)
3) The Powerplay is awful. Dear god, please help!
I don't now why you left PK from that?
I agree with 1 & 2. But #3 has been garbage for almost 2 seasons now (come December it will be two seasons) and there seems to be no recognition of this fact from within the club. I admit to getting restless, but the staff just looks lifeless. Or worse, clueless.This board has a lovely history of making bold claims about the level of the team based on small samples. After spring 2015 they were supposed to be amazing (I dissented) and since then we've tended to the opposite conclusion too readily (Ever notice that we only have conversations about "THE TRUE BLUE JACKETS" after a losing streak?)
This is a league with extreme parity, in the most random of the major sports. A 6-2 record doesn't tell you much that is distinct from what a 2-6 record does. Not without drilling down further.
The simple tools analysts use at this point are PDO and the percentages - like shot share and I think more importantly high danger shot share, scoring chance share, etc... By those metrics the Jackets are in the classic underperforming phase and should rebound. The PDO is 4th worst in the league - thanks to lower than expected shooting % and save %. The shot share has rarely ever been a problem and it isn't now. What I wonder about is the chances - the Jackets sometimes tend too strongly to safe is death and give up the worst chances on the counter attack. The last couple games that's not what is happening. They're just not scoring in golden opportunities, and Bob isn't stopping the puck.
This is what is preventing the club from winning a higher percentage of their games:
1) Snakebit shooters - short term fluctuation. (this is commonly paired with "guys gripping sticks" and bad passing - all short term fluctuation).
2) Bob stinks - short term fluctuation? (not sure.)
3) The Powerplay is awful. Dear god, please help!
The good news is that none of these issues are innate to the player personnel. This is all fixable - (1) absolutely will fix itself, (2) probably will, and (3) I have given up fire someone please.
He was square to the shooter with a clear lane, moved maybe 2 inches, and wiffed by 6 inches on making an easy glove save. I don't know what he wants, but going from his performance and comments it's hard not to question his mindset, therefore effort. Bottom line is that that is a save you would expect a guy making what he makes to make.So in the .15 second between the release and it going in the net you wanted more effort, you say? He just doesn't want it enough, you think?
I agree with 1 & 2. But #3 has been garbage for almost 2 seasons now (come December it will be two seasons) and there seems to be no recognition of this fact from within the club. I admit to getting restless, but the staff just looks lifeless. Or worse, clueless.
I agree with 1 & 2. But #3 has been garbage for almost 2 seasons now (come December it will be two seasons) and there seems to be no recognition of this fact from within the club. I admit to getting restless, but the staff just looks lifeless. Or worse, clueless.
He was square to the shooter with a clear lane, moved maybe 2 inches, and wiffed by 6 inches on making an easy glove save. I don't know what he wants, but going from his performance and comments it's hard not to question his mindset, therefore effort. Bottom line is that that is a save you would expect a guy making what he makes to make.
Yes I worded my response poorly.Did you read the entire post?
Yeah I do. I just should have responded differently. Sorry.Sounds like you also agree with me on #3.
I'd say more clueless than lifeless. They've been re-shuffling the personnel and the positions constantly since about halfway through last year, in a way that seems nonsensical to me - the latest being putting Duclair, a weak LH shooter, on the left halfwall on the first unit, where we desperately need to put our RH snipers. We're wasting our shooting talent.
You are surmising that the shooter fooled Bob. Maybe so. I am normally one to defend Bob as I feel like he has earned it. That save attempt didn't look very Bob like. I'm surmising that he made a very poor attempt.Watch it again and tell me that is an easy save. It's not even close to an easy save or a save you expect a goalie to make. The guy was wide open a few feet from the hashmarks and ripped one. It looks like maybe Fischer tried to elevate it more than he did and that made it so Bob couldn't read the release. The only way for a goalie to stop a puck in that situation is to read the release, as the actual time from the release to the puck passing the goalie is about how long it takes for a human to react to any stimulus, about .15 seconds.
I have no doubt that Bob's mindset is off and that's really contributing to his poor play. But effort to make a save? That's your explanation? I would never question that, and not for most any goalie. Think about what the position entails, effort is not the hard part of their job. They always try to stop pucks. If there is a problem with mindset, it leads to poor focus.
I think we need to accept that this is middling team. Not tanking bad, but nowhere close to Stanley Cup great.