Post-Game Talk: Sen-d them home - Jets 2, Senators 5

[Eyeseeing]

I will be in Bucerias...

They have satellites... so my dark cloud can follow me...

At least there's lots of Tequila and Mezcal...

Goalies sports bar !!!!!
I’m soooo jealous

 

[Gabe Kupari]

Ill give broissoit a break..
Considering hes sick AF right now... Dude obviously has a virus of some kind...

Pretty dumb to play him if hes sick.. His post game interview made it seem like hes struggling

 

[Whileee]

It certainly seems like we've given up easy points to doormats so far this year.

Before the Jets problem was that they were feasting on nonplayoff teams, now it's opposite.

Jets fans can be.... inconsistent.

 

[chaos4]

Fan support

 

[Eyeseeing]

If you're still alive, it's a good day.

With normal goaltending it was going to be a close game.
Hard to be mad at the Bro he’s been far better than anyone expected.

 

[surixon]

This should give Maurice the ammo to bench a couple of players.

Top on my list?

Morrow and Chiarot.

It should but both are vets so he won't do anything.

 

[Robinson2187]

On the road so I listened to most of game on sat radio......Senators feed. This one comment says it all for me......”Laine has the puck and moving in the neutral zone.....in slow motion. Duschene (my spelling bad) takes the puck away......easily.” And then the announcer went on to wonder whether Maurice was getting a little annoyed with Laine. And I’ve still got four hours to stew over that game. Yikes!

Never...EVER.... take sportsnet analysis as gospel

 

[bustamente]

Lemmy 9 goals so far this year, just might work out long term when we lose Tanev and trade Matty P

 

[surixon]

Sabres playing on a back to back and 3 in 4 tomorrow like the Jets, but not one of the Sabres forwards played as much as 18 minutes today. Scheifele with almost 22 minutes tonight, Wheeler over 20 and Connor close to 20. Meanwhile, Lemieux and Appleton with around 8 minutes each, despite very strong games. This was a blowout. Not sure Maurice has a good handle on player usage.

I've been beating this drum for a while now. He isn't great at managing his bench.

 

[JetsFan815]

What a strange sentiment from a fan.

A fan who wants the team to do well in the long run and doesn't want the coach to ruin the organization's relationship with the star forward who is up for a new contract. Do you think he doesn't feel some type of way about getting taken off the #1 PP in a contract year, esp when he hasn't been able to accomplish much at 5 on 5? One goal on the PP with the new unit and Mo will stick to it for another few weeks atleast, further hurting that relationship.

 

[WPGChief]

• It isn't the sea of red we saw in Montreal a few days before, but a number of these would be if Ottawa weren't content with the lead they already had (they only had 10CF in the third as they focused on defense), as the Jets clearly played not-strong 5v5 hockey, the weakest Jet being the netminder, Brossoit.

• But not everything falls wholly on Brossoit, as Connor-Scheifele-Wheeler were lackadaisical yet again in their d-zone. While they clawed their way back to evens in both CF and xG as them and the rest of the team struggled to get anything past Nilsson, they certainly weren't doing themselves any favours by hoping extending their sticks defensively is a good enough coverage. As many observers have pointed out already, nearly half of their shifts today were coming over the 0:50 mark as they drag themselves to the bench after extended play. Maurice is relying on his top line too much, or he isn't holding them to the same standard as his others.

• Laine-Little-Roslovic were slightly better again today but are still on the wrong end of your xG chart. Laine has played better recently and has showed some offensive flair again with his turn into the neutral zone to give him room and speed to saucer his pass to Little for an easy one-timer, but he's still losing a lot of pucks in the neutral zone and along the boards and is certainly a skill he needs to work on developing. The line in general is still not a dangerous line, but a refusal to try anything else has made it even more lackluster. Again, a knock on Maurice.

• Perreault-Lowry-Tanev were on the wrong end of the xG mark and have struggled way too much lately. There are games where they absolutely dominate and I think they are getting back to form, only for them to put up another slate of games of them below their expected threshold. If there is a tell, my only guess is that they struggle when there's no clear top line to match up against as they struggle against the opponent's mix of talent spread throughout the lineup (because of a lack of star talent (Ottawa, Montreal) or they have the ability to spread it (San Jose)). Yet again, this is another knock against Maurice because you now have your top 9 lines not putting up great chances to score, as your third is dedicated solely to defense or breakaways from Tanev.

• Appleton-Copp-Lemieux didn't have time to make an impact on the game as they normally would as Lemieux sat in the box as Ottawa did their damage in the first. Lemieux is great at padding his stats, though.

• Morrissey-Trouba is clearly the top pairing of the Jets and without one or the other, the team as a whole struggles mightily. Morrissey stepped back in without missing a beat and the pairing was back up to even, though they had nothing to show for it offensively (though nothing given up either, albeit the one on the power play which Brossoit clearly should have stopped).

• I'll mix the next two together, because Byfuglien and Myers bring an element of offense that many other teams would die for. While Byfuglien is clearly not up to game speed as he fumbled the puck on his stick many a times in his own zone, many people applauded Myers for giving a shit in the third period as he was rapid firing them. So, many people would think that Myers > Byfuglien this game, especially considering the stats, correct? Defensively, they have up about the same marker. Offensively, each of themselves generated the same amount of ixG, but Morrow-Myers were on for a higher xG in general. However, I'm still remiss to give this victory to Myers, when we actually look at the event maps for each today:
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  • Myers only got between the dots once, compared to Buff who got there 3 maybe 4 times (depending on how much leeway you give the actual trackers in the arena) but had all his shots blocked. Myers, as we've come to see many a times, likes to skate it up along his side of the ice and tries to fire it, where as Buff keeps his feet moving and has his more spread out across the offensive zone. Myers is predictable; Buff is not, whether you take that as a positive or negative.

• Brossoit sucked tonight, and he admitted it himself with little excuses. Incredibly tough showing for him he craters back down to Earth with that performance.

Chief's final eyetest says: Ottawa put on a good performance for the scouts in attendance today. Mark Stone is as valuable as advertised - even more so, in my perspective. I would rather have him on my team than Duchene for an optimal lineup through 4 lines, especially as he clearly excels defensively. Ottawa are very, very dumb that they aren't likely to keep either.

EDIT: Oh, and both power play units were abysmal. Final knock on Maurice today, but he's deserving of some lately. You don't get to 1500 games having this to show for it...

 

[Robinson2187]

where is Wheeler talking about pumping the brakes

ahhhh...the memories

 

[AKAChip]

Right now this team is BAD. Cushion is nice but it’s meaningless going forward.

 

[Derfel]

 

[Robinson2187]

Looks like Buff is going to need a few games, and Ehlers coming back should help, but quick teams are the Jets kryptonite lately.

I sincerely hope any notion of trading Fly will never come up here again. We're not the same team without him.

 

[Robinson2187]

....my leaders? I like to stick the leader on after the floater.

(I'll see myself out).

I hope Buff reads this...

 

[ps241]

Mark it down boys:

Sip prediction, Jets won’t be playing in May this year!

I will not forget Sip

 

[Saintb]

Lemmy is awfully effective in close. his office, as he called it. I could see him being effective on the power play because he also seems to retrieve pucks well. not sure what others think on that..

 

[Howard Chuck]

On the road so I listened to most of game on sat radio......Senators feed. This one comment says it all for me......”Laine has the puck and moving in the neutral zone.....in slow motion. Duschene (my spelling bad) takes the puck away......easily.” And then the announcer went on to wonder whether Maurice was getting a little annoyed with Laine. And I’ve still got four hours to stew over that game. Yikes!

Don’t jump to conclusions from that. Laine was one of the few good jets today.

 

[Robinson2187]

Laine wasn't good today although his pass to Little was a beaut.
You should pay attention to the times when he has the puck - and then turns it over, and over, and over.

Did you even watch the game? If you did, there's no way you come to the conclusion that this wasn't Laine's best game in a while. Some perspective please.

 

[Howard Chuck]

Somebody needs to teach Laine to skate seriously half the time he was standing still.

I don’t know what game some of you watch.

 

[bustamente]

Lemmy is awfully effective in close. his office, as he called it. I could see him being effective on the power play because he also seems to retrieve pucks well. not sure what others think on that..

Yup this team needs to change up the PP maybe putting a guy in front to muck up things would be better than constantly trying cross ice passes, 2 different styles of pp would be a nice change up.

 

[Howard Chuck]

Laine wasn't good today although his pass to Little was a beaut.
You should pay attention to the times when he has the puck - and then turns it over, and over, and over.

I just don’t understand? He made some very good plays and had some incredible passes

Wheeler turned it over more than laine did.

 

[Robinson2187]

I'm now more than ready to see Niku in for Morrow.

1000 times cubed to the nth degree x Pi math guy

 

[Trinity]

Lemmy is awfully effective in close. his office, as he called it. I could see him being effective on the power play because he also seems to retrieve pucks well. not sure what others think on that..

He's the kind of guy who can be a real playoff MVP.