Modifié 3 mai 2021 à 22 h 35
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@missthewhalers said, only schiefele and ehlers can actually drive offence on this team. Taking laine off this team/adding dubios midseason proved to be a bad move for everyone involved. It took off a serious threat who could actually create some offence (yes he could). Now we are stuck with dubios who hasn’t quite adjusted yet, wheeler who is clearly aging and can only have 1 elite game every little while at this point, stastny who is really smart, but not much of a finisher or dynamic player, and Connor who struggles without a fair amount of support.
I’m guilty of thinking the jets offence just never was running at full potential but now I see that their potential is only 1 scoring line in the top 6 and another that’s just meh. They just don’t have the play drivers.
That said, JoMo was very good tonight. Good to see. Pionk took a little more risks and I liked it, he just got burned because he was a little sloppy but I don’t expect that from him if he continues to build on that. Poolman surprisingly keeps getting better. I really liked the Stanley-poolman pair and the JoMo-pionk pair. Forbort needs rest and demelo was once again...meh.
This team has depth, but lacks certain players that will get them anywhere in the playoffs unless JoMo, pionk, hellebuyck, wheeler, scheifele, ehelrs, and Lowry all play very well in the playoffs.