Craig Button didn’t mince words about Winnipeg being 6-13-2 since November 4th.
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I’ll say this, the Jets have sucked since Lowry came back.
can’t break the puck out is probably the single most prominent issue
second is probably the lack of transition defence
Having 8 AHL caliber forwards doesn’t help either
When Logan Stanley is 4th on the team in goals, you know things are seriously wrong.
Kevin Cheveldayoff. The eye test aint pretty. Our defensive game is so incredibly terrible. We get hemmed in to our own zone way too often. Need to be aggressive and not collapse defensive structure. That seems to happen more often than not most likely cause were being hemmed in our own zone. It’s disheartining to see management squander this group. Sure there are individual performances each night that are hard to chew down. But for my self it starts from the top. Be better management!
Lack of commitment to playing the right way. Its more mental mistakes than lack of overall ability.
Its the exact same defensive core, same goalies, 9 out of the 12 forwards are the same. There shouldn’t be this big of a drop off.
Sure they lost Ehlers, but they were relatively successful without him last year. Appleton, Tanev, Kupari, and Gus were hardly offensive juggernauts. Yet this bottom 9 we see now can’t score a goal to save their lives.
They should immediately remove Helle from off the graphic. That’s disrespectful to have him imaged in the thumbnail with those words
I met Craig Button at a bar and he said we were contenders ;( this was… before Helle’s injury
People look at who we lost and claim we shouldn’t have so much issues scoring as we do as those players didn’t score much. Which is true.
What did Ehlers, Tanev, Kupari, and Appleton all have in common? Speed.
The Jets are analytically the slowest team in the league (dead last in speed bursts per 60). We lost most of our quick players and replaced them with old, slow players in Nyquist, Pearson and Toews.
So ya, in the new young and fast NHL, we are the oldest team in the league and the slowest team in the league. Being half a second behind the play is everything at this level, both on offence and defence.
9 comments
I’ll say this, the Jets have sucked since Lowry came back.
can’t break the puck out is probably the single most prominent issue
second is probably the lack of transition defence
Having 8 AHL caliber forwards doesn’t help either
When Logan Stanley is 4th on the team in goals, you know things are seriously wrong.
Kevin Cheveldayoff. The eye test aint pretty. Our defensive game is so incredibly terrible. We get hemmed in to our own zone way too often. Need to be aggressive and not collapse defensive structure. That seems to happen more often than not most likely cause were being hemmed in our own zone. It’s disheartining to see management squander this group. Sure there are individual performances each night that are hard to chew down. But for my self it starts from the top. Be better management!
Lack of commitment to playing the right way. Its more mental mistakes than lack of overall ability.
Its the exact same defensive core, same goalies, 9 out of the 12 forwards are the same. There shouldn’t be this big of a drop off.
Sure they lost Ehlers, but they were relatively successful without him last year. Appleton, Tanev, Kupari, and Gus were hardly offensive juggernauts. Yet this bottom 9 we see now can’t score a goal to save their lives.
They should immediately remove Helle from off the graphic. That’s disrespectful to have him imaged in the thumbnail with those words
I met Craig Button at a bar and he said we were contenders ;( this was… before Helle’s injury
People look at who we lost and claim we shouldn’t have so much issues scoring as we do as those players didn’t score much. Which is true.
What did Ehlers, Tanev, Kupari, and Appleton all have in common? Speed.
The Jets are analytically the slowest team in the league (dead last in speed bursts per 60). We lost most of our quick players and replaced them with old, slow players in Nyquist, Pearson and Toews.
So ya, in the new young and fast NHL, we are the oldest team in the league and the slowest team in the league. Being half a second behind the play is everything at this level, both on offence and defence.