>A tepid performance from the Blue Jackets results in a loss to a young and fun team that is much worse than them on paper. Yes, those are alarm bells you hear ringing.
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>The Blue Jackets need [Werenski] to do everything, to make every play clean and provide a stable surface for performance for everyone else while also being the guy that puts the puck in the net. It’s simply too much.
>I write this all here because the San Jose Sharks are on the opposite side of this curve. There aren’t any expectations for this team and they can play young, reckless and free because there are minimal stakes. Even their general manager feels free to take chances, to mess around with the D corps and all sorts of things.
>I’ll stop here, perhaps the longer post-mortem style breakdown can be served later when it’s more official but it’s hard not to see how different the Blue Jackets are from last year to this and yearn for the attacking hockey that the San Jose Sharks just played.
Man I felt like the New Jack City meme piling on Z last night in the postgame thread because he’s so damn good offensively but he was awful defensively last night and honestly a few other times recently.
The worst part is it’s mostly effort. He can play exceptional D when he chooses to
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>A tepid performance from the Blue Jackets results in a loss to a young and fun team that is much worse than them on paper. Yes, those are alarm bells you hear ringing.
———-
>The Blue Jackets need [Werenski] to do everything, to make every play clean and provide a stable surface for performance for everyone else while also being the guy that puts the puck in the net. It’s simply too much.
>I write this all here because the San Jose Sharks are on the opposite side of this curve. There aren’t any expectations for this team and they can play young, reckless and free because there are minimal stakes. Even their general manager feels free to take chances, to mess around with the D corps and all sorts of things.
>I’ll stop here, perhaps the longer post-mortem style breakdown can be served later when it’s more official but it’s hard not to see how different the Blue Jackets are from last year to this and yearn for the attacking hockey that the San Jose Sharks just played.
Man I felt like the New Jack City meme piling on Z last night in the postgame thread because he’s so damn good offensively but he was awful defensively last night and honestly a few other times recently.
The worst part is it’s mostly effort. He can play exceptional D when he chooses to