For the second time this year I’m able to present the Jets scoring chances following a game that produced results greatly affected by the score. Unlike the game against the Blues early last week, the twitter-despair was completely accurate in explaining how terrible this game really was for the Jets from the second period onwards. Regardless, here are the chances from Saturday’s matchup against the ‘Hawks.

Despite the fact that the Jets greatly out-chanced Chicago in the third, I don’t think it was at all representative of how that period went. Chicago spent a lot of time in the third almost playing with the puck in the Jets zone, cycling it quite easily around a team that was standing still far too often. Credit to the line of Frolik-Scheifele-Halischuk though, as they seemed to really keep pushing and generated 4 of the 6 Jet chances that period.

You can say this about any stretch of any game, but I can’t help but wonder how this game would have played out if the last 1:35 of the first period went differently. In that time the Jets generated five chances, and could have taken a lead into the second period. Instead, Corey Crawford and the Blackhawks held strong and came out in the second with a new dominate approach.

I would like to see Claude Noel go back to a Kane-Scheifele-Wheeler line for two reasons. First, I thought that grouping looked pretty good when they were first put together, and would like to see what they could do long term. Second, I think it’s a waste to have Scheifele playing on the third line and in a roll the Jets can’t be hoping to leave him in long term.

Not that it means a lot in this game, but I guess it’s good that both Clitsome and Byfuglien ended up in the positives. Personally, I take more merit in the limiting of chances against than the summed values in these types of games, so I’d put more merit in Bogosian’s game than anyone else’s.

By the same rule, it was actually a decent night for Ladd, Little and Setoguchi. Overall, they did manage to keep the puck out of their own end (as seen by Ladd’s 10 entries on the night), and it resulted in minimal chances against.

That was one productive night by the fourth line eh?

Keith and Seabrook didn’t really have a good night now did they? I’m not sure if this has been a regular thing this year, or if this was just a rough game, but I am pretty surprised to see those two at the rough end of things.

The Wings are in town Monday night and I’ll actually be at the game. Scoring chances will therefore once again not be live, but I promise it’s coming back soon. In the meantime, let’s all hope for a better effort than we saw on Saturday.