Quoting: DirtyDangle
i have the opposite view. avs became more disciplined and making smarter plays after they finally got on the board. i didn't notice much difference in the jets. avs finally started to put in the effort and overwhelmed the jets in the last 2 periods. avs tend to take the 1st off, it's been a trend that they blow the game open in the 2nd. what you witnessed is just the motivated avs and unmotivated avs.
First of all, saying they got more disciplined when they took more penalties in the following periods is ironic and simply false. As I said, the jets simply fell off a cliff after the avs’ 2nd goal. The jets had 5 (Or 4 I think) more power play opportunities but failed to generate good chances. That’s not on the avs’ good play, that’s on the jets’ poor play.
As I said, I clearly saw a different avs team than you did. I think they came out gunning and played with similar pace the whole game. While you could say the avs top line turned it up (and you would be right), but I don’t think that applies to the whole team. The simple fact is that this loss is more on the jets than it is on the avs’ good play (which I am not denying).
The jets simply panicked when they got a little adversity. I’ve never seen this team do it quite this badly (at least that I can think of) but it was brutal. It also didn’t help that Lowry started confusing the players mid game by changing the lines every rotation. The second period was a ****show. And a lot of that is on lowry. He changed the lines so much that you could tell how confused the jets forwards were in the 2nd. And that’s when the avs did the most damage.
If the jets don’t panic like that, I think the game is much closer. 3-1/4-1 win for the avs. I still don’t think the jets win that, but it wouldn’t be a blowout. Without helle playing at the top of his game (which he very much wasnt), the jets don’t have much of a chance against an elite team like the avs
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