What was believed to be a tight, close series, the Avalanche have walked all over the Winnipeg Jets. The Jets have no answers and are letting the Ads do literally anything they want. This falls squarely on the shoulders of Rick Bowness and his staff.
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To some extent you have to give the Jets a slight break and acknowledge that the Avs just look razor sharp, looking like a threat to possibly repeat . Im sure the Jets couldve handled VAN or Nashville, but the Avs look world class again
Hold on, we got to this point (post season) because of coaching. Bones and staff aren't the one that is getting the penalties.
Pp and pk? Defensive zone coaching? Dumping the puck for the other team to easily retrieve? It's not like he got to the playoffs with the worst team, they were already a playoff team when bowness got here and this roster is stacked. Bowness is not playing to our strengths in my opinion.
@@patrickgoulet8170 lol... already a playoff team, dude.. no one thought we'd be 1st at one point or get the Jennsen trophy. at the beginning of the season. EVER. Sure.. maybe wildcard but barely.
@@6gunn13 you ask any fan from another team if a squad with nik ehlers, mark scheifele, kyle connor, gabe vilardi, perfetti, nino neiderreiter, lowry, namestnikov, josh morrisey, demelo, and hellebuyck is not a playoff team and you'd get laughed out of the room, this roster is insanely talented and especially deep.
@@sergiomarucci Lol, you obviously are only thinking this because of recency bias. At the beginning of the year did you think playoff team? I call BS.
Players win games... coaches & refs can certainly influence a game but at the end of the day it's up to the players to show up & win. The Jets are playing terribly compared to what they are capable of. No effort, no pushback, no drive... all of that hard work in the regular season, just to p*ss it all away 😢😠
Agree 100%, this is a mentally weak team. When faced with anything even remotely resembling adversity or pressure, they collapse like a house of cards in a tornado.
jets top 6 should be ehlers-scheifele-valardi perfetti-monahan-connor
Jets top 12 should be Toffoli Lowry Iafallo Appleton Namestnikov Perfetti then if you say those should be the top 6 (not slamming it I agree RIGHT NOW but I honestly think those would help the team out a ton knowing Perfetti at his best a top tier second line wing and Namestnikov is a second liner defaultly for skill. Defense should be Morrisey Demelo Samberg Pionk Miller Stanley or Schmidt. Struggle is real for lines on this inconsistent team.
@@agentshadow7456 Neiderietter ?
@@steveb9381 That's my bad for not adding him. I'd prefer him over Appleton.
Couldn't agree more with you. Not playing Perfetti a guy who is 5th in scoring on this team is idiotic. Plus their power play still stinks. Please get rid of these coaches.
Logan Stanley sucks.....
This guy should not play in the NHL
The Winnipeg Jets have no passion or drive anymore to fight and win. The pushback we’ve seen in December and all season long has just diminished, it’s not existent, it’s invisible. Now, I’m probably delusional, but I’m hoping for the best for tomorrow night since it is home ice and I’m really rooting for the boys to come back and win this series. Now I completely blame Rick because he continuously believes on something that never works and probably something that would never work, but the boys need to show up too. A great regular season going to waste…
as long as we stick together everything be fine 😂
The coaches have been outmatched every game this series!
Basically no one at this point is innocent in The Jets organization, and it really sucks to see.
Bowness’s only answer is to play Appleton more and bench ehlers and scratch perfetti
The Jets need some form of leadership, if not the coach then someone, somewhere, some how they need a leader to get them out of this mess. It's disappointing to see them lose after such a great finish to the season. It's now or never Jets.
The players are absolutely not playing the system. How can you say this looks like the 34 game run?
Baloney. Jets we’re on an 8 game winning streak going into the playoffs. They have depth, defence, scoring punch, speed, best goalie in the league. The PLAYERS simply look like they do not want to be there.
Bring on the funeral. The only problem I have with the coaching is to keep playing Helle with his 5 plus GAA in the playoffs. It was clear after a couple of games he is not the answer. Sign LB, move Helle along. The Avs stars are being stars, their fringe players are playing like stars and the Jets stars are not being stars. The Jets are FRAUDS once again. Lets just hope the Avs put an end to the Vegas yearly abuse of the LTIR system. If anyone else was doing this the rules would be changed.
If they don't start LB next game they're done. Colorado have solved/broken Hellebuyck, they dont know LB
Totally agreed on Perfetti, though. A 40 point sophomore slump is elite.
It’s AMAZING that the staff and fans can’t figure out that Neal Pionk has been responsible for at least 12 goals against in 3 games. They CRY that “Hellebuyck can’t handle the puck.” Well if you were SMART, you’d see it was PIONK that poke checked Helly of the puck RIGHT TO A COLORADO PLAYER!! Then Helly stopped the first shot, but couldn’t stop the second shot. Who was there to stop the second shot? Neal Pionk. Did he? Of course not! But it’s not like we have Colin Miller to put in or something…. 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I don’t think it’s the coaching. Players are not executing
Pretty sure they are dumping the puck constantly. Where is it getting them? or do you think that's what the players want to do?
Exactly what I said, and I got all these bipolar Jets fans hating me. If you can’t translate your success in the regular season and going into the playoffs, I’m bringing more intensely to it than there’s something mentally wrong with this team and there is something wrong with this team for the last six out of the seven years they have made the playoffs.
Are they just better?
Agree. This poster has been critical of the coaches for some time but seems to let the players slide.
It's our Ds inability to move the puck to our forwards......they need to tighten the gap and move up ice out of our zone with better puck support. Our D is just not strong enough as a unit
Well said, I like how you don't mince words. Tell it like how it is.
The unwillingness to change it up. Same lines, same sunburnt goalie, same results. Put some players in there that would add a spark, Perfetti would be a good start. Back up the Brinks truck and get Berube.
As an avs fan, I think the fact that between the jets allowing so many shots, compared to the regular season games w/the avs, and hellybuck not stopping shots has been very surprising. I don’t think it’s coaching but I don’t know the jets that well
Could you make a video about next season jets and what the liens would look like like what you think
I agree completely, I felt the same way about not seeing Miller and Perfetti last night. Hoping Bowness calls it after this year because I like him but he's not the coach for this team (I don't think Arniel is either though)
I wouldn't have agreed at the beginning of the season but I definitely do now
Perfetti and Miller should be playing.
I also have to say yes the coaching is suppose to make changes but if it's not working the captain and assistant captains cam say fuck it it's not working and make a game plan.
Perfetti needs to come in and Heinola!
If I were them, I'd want out of here
@@patrickgoulet8170so every player from the teams that get eliminated should "want out of there"
We are becoming the Winnipeg maple leafs...
Done with the Jets ...............Done with the NHL .
2 good teams .Ya someone has to lose. The upside of it all . These 2 teams will make the playoffs next yr again. Enjoy u all.
I think Jets fans wish it was as simple as making a coaching change. Unfortunately I think its much deeper then that. The core 'stars' on this team have not stepped up and lose nearly every battle, can't make breakout passes, and can't stay out of the penalty box, and just can't make plays. That's on the players, has nothing to do with systems. Some guys rise the the occasion of the playoffs and some do not. You can't adjust for lack of heart and determination.
I 1000% agree. Last year there was no pushback. This year no strategy. The Av's have looked dominant since the start even in game #1 I felt the Jets were lucky the clock ran out on the Av's. To me at no time has the Jets looked like they had the Av's figured out. You can't say all year the PP and PK lose you games and not do anything and then the team takes 4 minors not 8 and lets 2 PP goals in to lose and blame the team for taking penalties. All year the coaching staff played not to lose. It's great to be defensively sound but we have numerous offensive weapons, big bodies, there is barely a less than 20 goal scorer in our forward group (if Perfetti was playing) and yet the Jets were 15th in the league in offense. Honestly, to me, the Jets look like they can't play because the coach wants the game to be a specific way. Why not go balls to the wall with Colorado at least they won then. I think that the team is so focused on not making mistakes that they make mistakes and it costs them. Every line seems to be paralyzed by thought, not reaction. They are not reacting and letting their skill take over.
Respect everything you said beside any other goalie letting it be 8-1 ya right
What the jets honestly need is a game breaker, someone who will say no, we are enforcing our will on them. AVS frankly have four Mack, Cale, Mikko and Valri N. You can have structure and play the right way, but at the end of the day you have to want it more than your opponent. The Jets don't want it more, and that comes down to individual players stepping up. The regular season means nothing in the NHL.
The Jets and their fans are too dumb to tank, and that’s why you don’t have any “game breakers.” The ONLY reason you got Laine, was we were so dumb to go on a 7 game WINNING STREAK after we had been mathematically eliminated. God took pity on our stupidity, and blessed us with the #2 overall, off a 1% chance. Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.
Why are they not playing perfetti and miller , stanly gives the puck away and pionk doesn’t do nothing
100% agree on all points.
I am cautious about agreeing, but to me, when a team gets a step ahead of every single player on your team, you are being outcoached.
The Avs, when in playoff mode, cannot be contained, so the Jet's strategy of "containment to frustrate" is not going to work, plain and simple. At this point, I'm just looking forward to (and hoping for) an Oilers/Avs meetup because of how they both rely on explosive offensive capabilities to win.
The 9:30pm start on Tuesday is just a slap to the face. Who tf would stay up and watch the Jets lose live or on t.v.? It's a formality that unfortunately is going to happen. I expect the Avs to use the whiteout crowd as fuel and dismantle the Jets and send a message to Dallas/Vegas. Not obviously an Avs fan.
8:30pm central, but yeah it's 9:30pm for me as well here in the eastern time zone. I'm going to stay up and watch, but it really does suck that the NHL makes Winnipeg play its home games in pacific/mountain time. I think I hate the NHL…
I don’t know how one person can believe that the coaching staff is to blame. The players do not want to win. They do not want to move onto the second round. They don’t have the drive for it. They don’t have the passion for it and they don’t seem to be engaged at all once the playoffs start. Blaming the coaches so pathetic like seriously grow up. It’s the players they don’t want it as bad!!! Maybe if they actually played to their structure like they did for 52 of their wins they would have success but they just crumble after they lose one game in the playoffs. This is not the coach. This is the players they don’t want it.
It literally is the coaching staff they've been making some bone headed decisions as of late and refuse to make adjustments to the system that isn't working against the Avs. Bednar made adjustments why can't Bowness? To say the players don't want it is just completely pathetic and you shouldn't be talking hockey.
@@maahes7139 do you know what’s funny the avalanche coach didn’t even say they made adjustments they just played at the structure of their game and they’re succeeding. If the Structure that brought the Winnipeg Jets season success in the regular season and got them to 52 wins in the regular season the players should be able to carry that success into the playoffs, but the players need to practice that and also up there intensity when it comes to being in the playoffs, they’re not so don’t blame the coaching staff don’t say oh ricks an old man he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Blaming the coaching staff it’s like blaming the girl you accidentally got pregnant if you have sex without a condom nine times out of 10 you’re gonna get her pregnant!!!
I get the frustration but this is why I think your comment is silly. Bones offensively neutered them and made them a defensive team which was good over the long run but not in the playoffs. We have numerous offensive weapons on the team yet they were #15 in scoring and #22 on the PP. The Jets are built for depth offensively not defensively. How many 20+ goal scorers do they have? Connor, Scheifele, Vilardi, Ehlers, Monohan, Toffoli, Perfetti, Nino, then Appleton, Lowry, Namesnikov, Iafallo, Barron, as the next tier and yet they're middle of the pack in the NHL?? The Jets had 1 player in the top 50 in scoring and 1 more in the top 75 in the NHL. 2 more in the top 100 (3 if you count Monohan) for a total of 5 in the top 100 for an offensively built team. The team always says they don't want to run and gun but why not, they won. Teach offensive players 1 defensive thing but teach them to score more. There is zero reason the Jets should not be top 3-5 in scoring in the NHL. For the entire year the coach has said the PK and PP have lost games for them yet seems to be surprised that 4 minor penalties lose them games. The Jets have been dominated from Game #1 that's a coaching issue. At no point have the Jets looked like they have the Av's figured out and that's a coaching issue. The Avs coaching clearly looked at the losses this year and came up with a game plan. The only reason the Jets won Game #1 was because Gorgiev was terrible. If the Jets had something to look at to say this is what beats the Avs then they'd have a template but they don't that's on the coach. But after Game 2 or 3 could have said let's go back to doijng what we did in Game #1 because that's the game we won. Just let Helle be better which he was last night. The Jets wanted it in Game #1 even if the Av's were hot on their heels but I bet you anything Coach drilled a bunch of improvements into them after Game #1, about not playng that way that we have seen hasn't worked. The mentality of the coaching staff should be to race with them, not try to stop them. To say we have 12 forwards who can score and they have less so go and score and when you can try to defend but race up ice, not overthink it. This "push back" idea is BS, the Coach should have taught them to push and get the other team to push back. In game # 1 the Avs had to push back and lost. All season the Jets took it to them and when they took it to them they were more successful than not. I have not seen a mentality of taking it to the Av's this series. The Coach should have trusted the team to be able to beat the Avs straight up but he didn't. He wanted them to stem their offense. That's a losing strategy. To beat the Avs you have to attack, attack, attack forget if you make mistakes, let Helle deal with that, but instead they talk about containing Mckinnion, or Makar. The coaches should have trusted that they learned something defensively but pushed the mentality of attacking the Av's not containment. That to me is the issue both this year and last year. The team with Dallas, Vega, Edmonton, Avs should be we can outscore them and we are the best defensive team and have the best goalie when THEY push back. You have to eat these teams at their own game. The Jets are better offensively but the coaches to me don't trust them offensively. They need to shove that puck down their throats, that's how they win. Instead, they're afraid of Colorado's offense. The coach is afraid of Col offense. Just look at his comments about 4 minor penalties. Ehlers is useless to me because he's constantly told "defense, defense, safe plays, etc." I bet you Mcdavid, or Mckinnion aren't told to make safe plays. They're there to burn the other team and only smart Centers like Scheifele get Ehlers. To me, this year it's absolutely a coaching issue.
@@Hair_guy btw he did say he made adjustments. look at any denver media coverage on youtube after game 1
@@mbfrommb3699 you’re saying it’s a coaching issue but yet the last six out of the seven years the Jets have made the playoffs even when they were that running gun team! They still couldn’t get past that hump so don’t tell me it’s the coaching issue and they have taught the players to play all defensive hockey. It has done them well in the 52 wins that they got this is not a coaching issue this is a mental issue with this team. There’s something mentally wrong with them as soon as they make the playoffs!!!
Like what the actual fuck. We played so well all season they get our hopes up because we know how good they can play and then just have no ducking effort or heart. It looks like they don’t want it. They realize they won’t be given the Stanley cup ? Absolute disappointment. It actually sucks to be a jets fan
I'm salty because they had this huge "all in" campaign and then for the second playoff season in a row threaten Jets fans, so the fans then make a commitment whether blackmailed or not and this is the result. If Jets lose game 5 I guarantee there's going to be a lot of jets gear thrown onto the ice
Bones came into this season as a lame duck head coach with no commitment to coach next season.
Bones needs to call it a day but how long does ownership keep Chevy around. He’s had more leash than most GM’s would ever get. Say adiós.
Did anybody see Lowry line Makar up and NOT MAKE THE HIT???? something's wonky here.... the sad reality for Jets fans is TNT/TBS/ESPN/ABC in USA lose millions if Winnipeg takes an american team's spot in the second round...sportsnet would be happy with Oilers/Canucks. At this stage, I think it's more likely Winnipeg is playing to lose. Look at the replays from Game 1 when Winnipeg was playing to win compared to now. It's a business, and players do not make $ winning this time of year, broadcasters do. There's nothing else that makes sense to me
After reading all the comments here trying to feel less confused about this paradox situation your comment makes the most sense to me! This thing feels like being rigged!
The coach doesn’t know how to adjust the team in situations at all. Who ever coaches the power play should be fired he doesn’t know what to do but pass the puck in circles till the other team gets it
There out classed what the hell are u on
Ehlers, shief, vilardi Perfetti, monohan, conner Tyfolli, Lowry, Nino Apples, gusbus, iofallo Maybe lb in goal but dought full tbh.
I can't wait till jets win game 7
Thought I was the only one that had this view
Don't even get me started on Brad Lauer. He should have been fired last November.
Against a team like the Avs you cannot win in the penalty box !
He keeps saying there’s no push, no one leading. Is the coach not supposed to be there push. Said from start keep him as defensive coach and hire a lead coach
It’s a mix of bad coaching and players not executing. But it starts with the coaches, bad coaching leads to players executing the system bad
Colorado raised their play to the next level, as required, for the playoffs. The Jets did not. The coaching and structure were fine. The players are paid millions to raise their play for the playoffs. If the Avalanche have taught the Jets a lesson, which I know they have, the Jets will be stronger for this, next year. I understand your level of frustration, but this all part the building process. When I look back to this time last season, Vegas left a dumpster fire filled with question marks in it's wake when finished with the Jets. The culture is far better, the unity and team chemistry are so much better now. Next season will be better still. Loyal Jets fan forever.
they need perfetti in the top 6. Tofolli needs to drop to the 3rd or 4th line, he looks lost. and need miller to replace stanley.
Forwards need to help out the D! Hard back to help shutdown the rush, provide support, then hard up the ice again with possession! Look like a bunch of rec league players waiting for their dads to shout what to do from the stands
Not really a fair assessment. Some coaching decisions have been bad but it was coaching that got them here. The team seems to be playing regular season hockey rather than playoff hockey. They get the puck and they wait until they are engaged by the Avalanche before they get their feet moving. They also are not moving fast enough to pressure the Avalanche and the Avalanche are using speed to disrupt the Jets system. The Jets were beat by the Vegas Golden Knights twice in the playoffs (2018 and 2023) because they did not step up to the tempo required. It's all a bit odd because when the Jets were successful during the regular season it was because they were skating fast and maximizing their chances based on Bones' system which in my mind emulated some of the things that made the Knights successful. The Jets were doing so well at disrupting other teams because they were often outnumbering the opposition and creating situations where they had a 3 on 2 on zone entries, or they had such a strong back check that they would have 4 on 3 situations if the other team was even successful at navigating the neutral zone and entering the Jets zone then they would transition back quickly to offense by using the weak side D to jump up in the play rather than the strong side winger (who was usually on the wall chipping the puck up and out). They were using cycling and switch plays so often in the O zone that other teams kept making mistakes on defensive coverage and retrieving the puck off the wall or from behind the net almost always with a second man in support faster than other teams so they were able to maintain possession. Watching that team play was really fun....right now, they are not moving fast enough to make these plays happen. These types of plays are all tactical and clearly have Bones' finger prints all over them.
Respectfully disagree with the notion that coaching is the problem. Certainly the special teams coaching needs to improve but the problem with the Jets, in my opinion, is the lack of character on the roster. Bowness is yet another successful respected coach who couldn't figure put how to get his team to care. I see zero fire not one player spitting fire and challenging his mates to be better. So they won't be better. Agree Bowness will mot return mutual parting of the ways and I am sure he will take the high road. Hope Berube is available. Just to see the reaction from guys like 55, 81 & 27
I'm a jets fan. The players get paid bug bucks to be good. In the playoffs they are just coasting. No effort. One bad pass after another. Right now I would pay then about 25K a year. Thats all most of them are worth. I hope they have a little pride for the next game and at least try. But i'm not holding my breath. And the Avs look good because of what they are playing. This is all on the Jets...again.
91 needs to play in a top 6 spot. He's not effective in a bottom 6 checking roll. Too small for that. Maybe 13 take 22 spot and 91 slots in on the 1st line.
bones is not the one taking bs penalties every single game and leaving helle out to dry. i almost always agree with you for everything i do not agree with this. these players have done this to themselves
after watching the rest of the vid i do agree with why tf did we get miller if were not even gonna use him over stanley. literally a waste of a pick. brad lauer is the worst pp coach ever and he needs to be gone. there is so much wrong with this team that i truly dont even know who too look at for the blame. the system worked in the reg season and now it looks like we dont even have one
names pionk stanley ehlers
Maybe we just don't have the horses. I mean, really - Sheife's line looks WEAK. Their defence is having their way , we can't penetrate. Our game, which is to get great goaltending early, and the opportunize as needed, just can't get going. Helle is shelled and intimidated - the biggest reason which I agree with your assessment. There was NO way they should have put Helle in for game 4. Terrible!
Since when does a system that gets you to 4th best record in the entire league also equal the reason the team is absolutely terrible? It doesnt. A team being absolutely terrible is what happens when you abandon your system
I agree coaching has something to do with it considering there's been three straight games with exactly the same outcome. Barely any adjustments in play, and why the & #!@ are we not playing Miller! I've come to the conclusion that Hellebuyck is not a playoff goaltender. I can't remember a game or a series in the past number of years that he has stolen from the opposite team. As much as he says he is mentally good and can play I believe he has a certain level of cognitive dissonance that is costing the team. Still played too many games during the regular season especially with number 39 waiting in the wings, not taking of advantage of 39 whatsoever and we're most likely not going to have him next year. Have absolutely wasted the chance with this very good team that absolutely will not look the same next year.
Hellebuyck always gets thrown to the wolves every playoffs. Only so much he can do, especially when other teams step it up and Jets don't.
No doubt Bones has been thoroughly out coached. Colorado is a powerhouse but Seattle beat them last year. The Kraken weren't exactly an elite team, so the Jets could be much more competitive if the proper line up were put out there.
Let's face it, they were not the same Avs team as last year to be honest.
During the 1.0 era of the Jets, Selanne scores 76 goals in a season. Next year, Housley gets moved. All of a sudden, “Selanne sucks. Selanne gas no speed. Selanne is a bust.” NO. THE DEFENCE can’t get the puck up to the forwards in a reasonable fashion. THAT was your problem, and IS your problem now.
In defense of the Jets, the Avs are double shifting MacKinnon and the Jets have absolutely no answer to him. They back off to respect his speed and everything crumbles from there. Only a few handful of teams can contain him and the Avs know it and exploit that. In terms of our coaching, I'm sure Bones is not wanting the Avs to enter our zone cleanly with speed every single possession, but is that coaching or players? Hard to say.
Jets were overconfident because of the regular season. After the Avs won the presidents trophy and lost in the second round MacKinnon said the regular season doesn’t matter. Avs are a team that only cares about playoffs and throws the regular season out the window.
As a lifelong Jets fan I hope Helly says enough is enough and packs his bags and leaves! He is getting virtually no help and is expected to win these games by himself. On top of that Brossoit wil be a starting goalie somewhere else next year. Without them the Jets would be lucky to get 80 points in a season!!
The lore of NHL playoffs..... JETS WIN GAME 7
Bones and his prevent defense only prevents wins.
Simple, team isn't built for playoffs and coach is playing checkers. Too small and big names are invisible. 3 games going down in the 2nd period and there's no resolve to chip away. I'm probably not even going to watch tomorrow and I'm not a fair weather, 😡😡.
Not coaching, that’s why Maurice left
Lauer should have been fired in January.
You might as play there prospects I’m sure they will do better
Unfortunately, the jets are pretenders. Not a playoff team. Need big changes this off season. Least amount of goals against in the regular season...now... most goals against in the playoffs...nuff said...
I'm going to re-post my comment here. Curious as to your thoughts. I get the frustration. I am a die-hard Jets fan and have been for decades. Here's what I see, Bones offensively neutered them and made them a defensive team which was good over the long run but not in the playoffs. We have numerous offensive weapons on the team yet they were #15 in scoring and #22 on the PP. The Jets are built for depth offensively not defensively. How many 20+ goal scorers do they have? Connor, Scheifele, Vilardi, Ehlers, Monohan, Toffoli, Perfetti, Nino, then Appleton, Lowry, Namesnikov, Iafallo, Barron, as the next tier and yet they're middle of the pack in the NHL?? The Jets had 1 player in the top 50 in scoring and 1 more in the top 75 in the NHL. 2 more in the top 100 (3 if you count Monohan) for a total of 5 in the top 100 for an offensively built team. The team always says they don't want to run and gun but why not, they won. Teach offensive players 1 defensive thing but teach them to score more. There is zero reason the Jets should not be top 3-5 in scoring in the NHL. For the entire year the coach has said the PK and PP have lost games for them yet seems to be surprised that 4 minor penalties lose them games. The Jets have been dominated from Game #1 that's a coaching issue. At no point have the Jets looked like they have the Av's figured out and that's a coaching issue. The Avs coaching clearly looked at the losses this year and came up with a game plan. The only reason the Jets won Game #1 was because Gorgiev was terrible. If the Jets had something to look at to say this is what beats the Avs then they'd have a template but they don't that's on the coach. But after Game 2 or 3 could have said let's go back to doijng what we did in Game #1 because that's the game we won. Just let Helle be better which he was last night. The Jets wanted it in Game #1 even if the Av's were hot on their heels but I bet you anything Coach drilled a bunch of improvements into them after Game #1, about not playng that way that we have seen hasn't worked. The mentality of the coaching staff should be to race with them, not try to stop them. To say we have 12 forwards who can score and they have less so go and score and when you can try to defend but race up ice, not overthink it. This "push back" idea is BS, the Coach should have taught them to push and get the other team to push back. In game # 1 the Avs had to push back and lost. All season the Jets took it to them and when they took it to them they were more successful than not. I have not seen a mentality of taking it to the Av's this series. The Coach should have trusted the team to be able to beat the Avs straight up but he didn't. He wanted them to stem their offense. That's a losing strategy. To beat the Avs you have to attack, attack, attack forget if you make mistakes, let Helle deal with that, but instead they talk about containing Mckinnion, or Makar. The coaches should have trusted that they learned something defensively but pushed the mentality of attacking the Av's not containment. That to me is the issue both this year and last year. With teams like Dallas, Vegas, Edmonton, and Avs, we can outscore them and we are the best defensive team and have the best goalie when THEY push back. You have to beat these teams at their own game. The Jets are better offensively but the coaches to me don't trust them offensively. They need to shove that puck down their throats, that's how they win. Instead, they're afraid of Colorado's offense. The coach is afraid of Col offense. Just look at his comments about 4 minor penalties. Ehlers is useless to me because he's constantly told "defense, defense, safe plays, etc." I bet you Mcdavid, or Mckinnion aren't told to make safe plays. They're there to burn the other team and only smart Centers like Scheifele get Ehlers. To me, this year it's absolutely a coaching issue. It's great that the Jets got some good structure and defense this year, but they are an offensive team and they need to have a coach that gives them lots of plays to score. Have every line scoring. Instead, what I saw was to take offensive players and turn them into a defensive team. You don't sacrifice your strengths to improve your weaknesses. The coaching staff needed to say we have 9/12 offensive players and get them to improve +1-2 defensively but improve their offense +10. They have 3 Morrisey, Pionk, Schmidt, offensively gifted Dmen 2 defensive Demelo and Dillion, and 2 young guns. make it work. I was frustrated not to see Miller at all and lose the guys on waivers this year just to see what they could do. To me, the coaching staff whoever it is doesn't maximize the lineup. It's not far off but some moves cause me to scratch my head. Col isn't a big team so why not have Perfetti and Miller in from Game #1 or 2? Now it's elimination and they're probably try it.
I'll support this team & be a fan no matter what happens. I really want our team to tank next season/increase our chances/give whatever we can (except Vilardi & Rutger) to get Michael Misa in the 2025 draft. He's a generational talent that will put butts in the seats & win us championships for 10 - 15 years down the line. I'd be willing to sacrifice 1 season if it means being a dynasty for 10 - 15 years. Get a real coach & personal for Misa too like Joe McDonell from the Dallas Stars to be our GM & Marc Savard as our coach.
Bowness is a dinosaur
Sounds like you’ve never played any high calibre hockey. The players are playing pathetic no heart no finish no hitting you can’t blame Bones! Wake up buddy
Ya....but give him a break...he is after all , embarrassed, lol
The whole team doesnt even look like they're trying. Zero push. Again. Hellebuyck is over rated. He flops in the playoffs. LB needs to start game 5. Namestikov is done for the year. Put perfetti in, bring in Miller. Either something happens or they go golfing. Stay out of the box. No team can take 4-5 penalties in a period.
Tuesdays game players should use their favorite golf club rather then sticks, cause that's what they'll be doing! Jets suck!
Sorry man, but you're way off base. The coaching is stellar, but our core has never been able to step up. His system works, but the Jets aren't playing it. Period. If we exit in the first round, Kyle Connor and Nik Ehlers have to go. Great regular season players who can eat bottom 10 teams alive to pad their stats, but have never performed in meaningful games. If that doesn't change this series, they need to go. Schmidt and Pionk also need to go.
Dave hackstall is looking for a job
So the problem is the coach who took them to 5th overall in the league and 2nd in the west? What an embarrassing channel. Players have no heart.
you really don't know hockey Namestnikov is absolutely the worst jet out there besides pionk
Captain Lowery plays with a losers mentality. Gets frustrated and tried to goon it up instead of playing harder hockey. His team follows his leadership and Dillon ends up getting injured.