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Shots firedThat’s good stuff. Did Donald help you come up the nicknames?
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Shots firedThat’s good stuff. Did Donald help you come up the nicknames?
I'd say they are still on the right side of 30. 34 was the dropoff age for Wheeler. But it will come sooner than later. Lambert, Yager, Zhilkin and Julien could be your centers by that point.The truth of the matter is that over the next number of years the Jets will likely need a number of their young players to be able to play C. Whether full time or part time it will be needed as injuries happen and our two most important C are on the wrong side of 30 and there is no telling when either or both play could really drop off. Hopefully it won't be for a while but it's not a given that they will be able to maintain strong at through their mid 30's.
i think most teams or fans are accustomed to the back-up goaltender usually being a turnstile of guys over the years. & usually they're up and down. brossoit coming into last year never had a b2b 0.900+ SV% season for example. even the first time Brossoit signed in 18-19 - the year prior he had a 0.883 sv% back when the league average was 0.908. he posted a 0.925 for the Jets (and fell below 0.900 the following year).I keep hearing talk of how its "basically the same roster" whenever the media asks the players about the upcoming season and expectations, and sometimes they bring up missing Dillon, but nobody has really talked about the loss of Brossoit lately.
Just switching from Bro (927 sv% over 23 games) to Kahkonen (898 sv% over half a season) is potentially a huge problem compared to last season. Granted its a luxury having a 1B goalie as your backup to a perennial Vezina candidate, and Kahkonen played on some bad teams for a good chunk of games, but the difference between a 927 and even a 910 is like 15 goals over a third of a season, or enough to chalk up 5-6 more losses in what were previously close game Ws.
This training camp is going to be more interesting than usual with seeing how the backup G battle shakes out, and come down to how well the young guys step in to fill spots, otherwise we could be looking at a significant step back this season that not a lot of people see coming. Throw in Arnie and a new coaching staff and I think expectations might be a bit overzealous.