A lot of dmen with Jones's physical traits often get rated poorly by advanced stats during the season also often look really great in playoffs where there is less time and space and added physicality. He's obviously got some good puck movement abilities which shines more in those situations
This thread was made over a month ago?
Took a few games after the trade for Jones to learn the Panthers’ game. No cheating. No passengers. Everyone is committed to the sacrifice to win. He’s clearly a high iq player and figured out his role within that philosophy of how to play. He’s been so much better than he was in Chicago. He’s been fantastic.
I've said in the other thread, there was so much attacking every time he made a mistake as he learned the system, it was crazy. He played on a team that was as dialed in as ours was, it takes time to get it all down, he's been fantastic and still has room to grow.
He's still a big, mobile #1D. It's not like he forgot how to play hockey, he was just playing on a garbage team where the coaching staff refused to hold their offensive players accountable defensively.
You mean teams matter?
He was playing on a garbage team where frustration and lack of focus would often get the better of him*****
Whiskey doesn't like Bedard so he's 100% stating the Hawks were being held back from not benching Bedard more/it was making Jones look worse. But it's a poor reflection. Hawks under Richardson were the definition of low-event, "try and lose 2-1" kind of hockey, that's been the coach for 77.2 % of the last three years and Sorensen was only coach for 25 games when Jones was still there.
It's a lot harder to defend well on a bad team than it is to produce, especially when that team doesn't expect it's players to play a 200 foot game. The Chicago D are constantly left out to dry by their forwards.
