Quoting: smokewiseganja
of course not, but when what I’m seeing on the ice adds up with what I’m seeing the in the spreadsheets it makes too much sense
Lol, if you are looking at possession and judging jets players, you are already lost. Jets don’t fit that norm cause they are a good team but are a terrible possession team. The oilers dominated possession in that series for a reason, they jets are a brutal possession team. Additionally, the players who are good possession players (ie Copp, morrissey, demelo, pionk) get the toughest matchups. The only players on the jets who are good possession player (our best in the case of ehlers) and don't get tough assignments are ehlers and stastny, and their numbers are stellar (especially in the case of ehelrs). Again I point out, it’s hard to be a good possession team when your d-core consists of morrissey, pionk, a shutdown d in demelo, and 3 3rd pairing guys.
Again, you can’t just look at those numbers. Almost all of morrissey’s minutes are against top lines while being saddled with poolman. This playoffs we saw what he can really do with a capable partner in demelo. The jets defence was simply more effective than the oilers. Yes the oilers had more shots but the jets had more blocks, and more importantly kept shots to the outside. That was the difference in the series. That and the oilers don’t have depth so all the jets d had to do was focus on mcdavid and draisaitl.