BW Charts for Jets vs Senators, Devils 1/16 & 1/17
by Bettman's Nightmare on Jan 20, 2012 11:31 AM EST
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It was a tale of two games on the scoreboard, one a solid shutout for Chris Mason & Co., the other a pretty humiliating defeat against a middle-tier opponent. Looking at the BWs, both games had a little different storyline than the final scores, something worth remembering as we go forward.
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Vertical blue lines -- Our goals
Vertical black lines -- Their goals
Shaded green -- Powerplays
Shaded pink -- Penalty kills
- A 2-0 final score doesn't do the Jets' performance justice in this one. From the outset, we were outplaying and outshooting the Sens, including taking advantage of our powerplays (even though we didn't score in them).
- The late "slide" should probably be viewed as a score effect, aka "protecting the lead." Of course, taking a penalty in the final minute doesn't help, but hey, we do shit like that.
- Yeah, it was 5-1, and yeah we took an absolute dump within a 15 minute window of time. Pepper in a few penalties here and there and, on the surface, it looked horrendous on the ice.
- Differential-wise, though, we didn't look too bad. You should always allow for score effects to take place in the 3rd period, but in the 1st and 2nd that was legitimately us sticking in there and trying to come back. It takes a lot to do that when the pucks had been flying into your net.
- The brief possibility of a comeback in the 3rd (Thanks, Toby!) was blown by a Devils goal 5 minutes later. What I gather from both of these BWs is that the Jets are a solid team, even in defeat - though the question remains whether we can challenge the big dogs.
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Looks right in line with what I saw. Looking forward to seeing the chart from last night.
Unrelated note, lots of people are criticizing Mittens. I think he has done a great job and at minimum been given more responsibility and been more consistent than the mix of Jaffray, MacLean, McArdel that we started the season with.
Mittlens can play 10 -12 minutes against the opposition’s best players and fair well. Meanwhile those other dudes were not trusted to play much more than 6 very protected minutes per game.
I agree that he's better than MacLean or McArdle
Both those guys looked overmatched. I really would have liked to see Jaffray in tougher minutes, as he seemed more-than-capable with the easy matchups.
In Meat’s defence, he’s played tough competition and had very low zone starts, and though he hasn’t been extraordinary with that kind of PT, he’s done better than any of GST.
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by Bettman's Nightmare on Jan 20, 2012 12:18 PM EST up reply actions
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