Game 29 : Hot Team In A Cold Town

[FrostyWinnipeg]

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Stats: 20-5-5 @ 14-13-1
Streaks: W1 @ L1
Last Ten: 8-0-2 @ 3-6-1

Stars projected lineup
Jamie Benn -- Wyatt Johnston -- Mikko Rantanen
Jason Robertson -- Roope Hintz -- Matt Duchene
Oskar Back -- Justin Hryckowian -- Mavrik Bourque
Sam Steel -- Radek Faksa -- Colin Blackwell
Esa Lindell -- Miro Heiskanen
Thomas Harley -- Nils Lundkvist
Kyle Capobianco -- Alex Petrovic
Casey DeSmith
Jake Oettinger
Scratched: Nathan Bastian, Vladislav Kolyachonok
Injured: Tyler Seguin (ACL), Adam Erne (lower body), Lian Bichsel (lower body), Ilya Lybushkin (undisclosed)

Jets projected lineup
Kyle Connor -- Mark Scheifele -- Alex Iafallo
Cole Perfetti -- Vladislav Namestnikov -- Tanner Pearson
Nino Niederreiter -- Adam Lowry -- Gabriel Vilardi
Jonathan Toews -- Morgan Barron -- Cole Koepke
Josh Morrissey -- Dylan DeMelo
Dylan Samberg -- Neal Pionk
Logan Stanley -- Luke Schenn
Eric Comrie
Domenic DiVincentiis
Scratched: Gustav Nyquist, Colin Miller, Elias Salomonsson
Injured: Haydn Fleury (concussion, illness), Connor Hellebuyck (knee)

Status report
Harley, a defenseman, will return after missing 12 games with a lower-body injury. … Lybushkin, a defenseman, did not travel and is day to day. … The Jets recalled DiVincentiis from Manitoba of the American Hockey League and reassigned goalie Thomas Milic to the AHL on Monday. … Fleury, a defenseman, skated with his teammates for the first time on Tuesday since being injured on Nov. 11 but is not expected to play.

Edited yesterday at 07:58 PM by FrostyWinnipeg

[BomberBall.]

That is a bizarre line shuffle.

[HardCoreBlue]

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, BomberBall. said:

That is a bizarre line shuffle.

What's to lose?

[HardCoreBlue]

3 minutes ago, Tracker said:

What's to lose?

That third line is not going to win ‘fastest skating line by NHL standards’ award.

[BomberBall.]

16 minutes ago, Tracker said:

What's to lose?

I understand the desire to shuffle, but I don’t understand those moves.  Pearson on the 2nd?  Vilardi on the 3rd?  Namestnikov still on the 2nd?  He is overvalued IMO.

At the very least, switch Pearson and Vilardi.  Pearson is not a 2nd liner and Vilardi is not a checker.

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, BomberBall. said:

I understand the desire to shuffle, but I don’t understand those moves.  Pearson on the 2nd?  Vilardi on the 3rd?  Namestnikov still on the 2nd?  He is overvalued IMO.

At the very least, switch Pearson and Vilardi.  Pearson is not a 2nd liner and Vilardi is not a checker.

I think Arniel is down to desperate measures. Everything he (and other coaches before him) has not worked and unless something improves and soon, the playoffs will disappear over the horizon.

[Tracker]

And here we go again.

[captaincanuck12]

For f***** sake. 40 seconds in  and they get scored on.

13 minutes ago, Tracker said:

I think Arniel is down to desperate measures. Everything he (and other coaches before him) has not worked and unless something improves and soon, the playoffs will disappear over the horizon.

The season was lost in the off season. We made no major upgrades anywhere. They gambled with JT and it hasn't paid off. Nyquist isn't even playing now.  

This team is in all sorts of problems. 

Edited 20 hours ago by captaincanuck12

[Tracker]

16 minutes ago, captaincanuck12 said:

For f***** sake. 40 seconds in  and they get scored on.

The season was lost in the off season. We made no major upgrades anywhere. They gambled with JT and it hasn't paid off. Nyquist isn't even playing now.  

This team is in all sorts of problems. 

Thr off-season changes looked hopeful on paper, apart from Fly leaving for a massive pay raise,but it hasn't turned out that way at all. I think Nyquist is in tonight.

No, he is not.

Edited 20 hours ago by Tracker

[captaincanuck12]

You know I was ready to post that the first period aside from that cluster. F*** first a minute was pretty good and the Jets dominated play just not on the score sheet. 

Then a b******* penalty at the end of the first leads to a power play goal for Dallas at the beginning of the 2nd. 

Unfortunately, I think this is the team we're stuck with all year. We'll be lucky to even be an 8th seed. 

And as I type this, there's the third goal against. 

[BomberBall.]

1 minute ago, captaincanuck12 said:

You know I was ready to post that the first period aside from that cluster. F*** first a minute was pretty good and the Jets dominated play just not on the score sheet. 

Then a b******* penalty at the end of the first leads to a power play goal for Dallas at the beginning of the 2nd. 

Unfortunately, I think this is the team we're stuck with all year. We'll be lucky to even be an 8th seed. 

And as I type this, there's the third goal against. 

That penalty was total bullshit.  Then when we’re about to kill it off, Samberg has his stick held…. No call…. In our net.  We’re not a good team right now, but we’re also not getting anything breaks.

[iHeart]

this team has 99 problems and the coach ain't one

[captaincanuck12]

3 minutes ago, iHeart said:

this team has 99 problems and the coach ain't one

But the GM is

[iHeart]

no shut out for you Dallas

[iHeart]

Scheif scores twice

[captaincanuck12]

Schiefs Is playing on a different level.  It will be a travesty if he does not make the Olympic team.  

[captaincanuck12]

And the losses keep piling up.

[BomberBall.]

Disappointing to get another loss, for sure, but at least we showed some push offensively and actually outshot our opponent.

Still giving up too many high danger chances and we got creamed in the face off department and special teams.

[Stickem]

15 hours ago, captaincanuck12 said:

Schiefs Is playing on a different level.  It will be a travesty if he does not make the Olympic team.  

The rink in Italy is smaller by nhl standards....and accordingly hasn't been deemed safe???Maybe Scheif would be better off staying at home.....although he's being wasted the way the club is playing now....IF they don't start putting together some wins, the playoffs are going to be just a goodbye....

[FrostyWinnipeg]

22 minutes ago, Stickem said:

The rink in Italy is smaller by nhl standards....and accordingly hasn't been deemed safe???Maybe Scheif would be better off staying at home.....although he's being wasted the way the club is playing now....IF they don't start putting together some wins, the playoffs are going to be just a goodbye....

It's only 4 feet/2% shorter.

[HardCoreBlue]

oh oh. Jets are feeling good about themselves after another loss.

[MrFreakzilla]

4 hours ago, BomberBall. said:

Still giving up too many high danger chances and we got creamed in the face off department and special teams.

Lowry was 2/13 and Toews who's the #2 faceoff man in the NHL only took 2 draws. 

Somebody said its not the coach, I disagree and say it is the coach. He's not blameless, the team doesn't show up more often than not. 

 

[BomberBall.]

5 minutes ago, MrFreakzilla said:

Lowry was 2/13 and Toews who's the #2 faceoff man in the NHL only took 2 draws. 

Somebody said its not the coach, I disagree and say it is the coach. He's not blameless, the team doesn't show up more often than not. 

 

Yeah, Lowry having a bad night really hurts because some of those losses were on the PK, giving Dallas instant possession.  So one stat feeds the other.