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There’s Some Explaining to Do

March 6, 2013, 11:55 AM ET [6 Comments]
Peter Tessier
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Ask all the questions you want Winnipeg Jets fans because you should have a lot of them. After a 4-1 loss to the Florida Rampage no one in the media, the blogosphere, tiwttersphere and most disturbingly the coach seems to have an answers for to straight games of complete apathetic play.

At least the Jets fans most divisive player Kyle Wellwood showed up and scored a goal.

So let’s start with some questions and see if we get answers. Coincidentally today is the much hyped “Mid-Season Summit” with coach Claude Noel on TSN Radio 1290 with Hustler and Lawless Hustlerama and Gary Lawless if you care to follow.

After a loss I would expect the coach to be gnarly today during an off-day in Tampa when he has to face the media in a planned event. TSN is the Jets sole broadcast partner so let’s take this summit with a grain of salt, this is no Crown Commission, it’s a made for media event to drive traffic. That’s fair, as the price TSN is paying solely for radio rights enough to warrant this level of exclusiveness.

1. Does the role of Anthony Peluso dictate the level of energy and effort put forth by the team?

2. Why did James Wright lead all forwards in ice time against the Panthers?

3. Miettinen, Little and Antropov had no shots on net between them- why?

4. From Noel: “How do you go through a game without drawing a penalty?

5. Noel: “Why is that? What’s happening, what’s happening that you can’t seem to get above the notch?”

6. Noel: “You have a chance to build on some things and then you fall short. What does that say about what you’ve got?”

7. Noel: “Were you that good that you were satisfied? You can’t be serious, you can’t be serious?”

8. If you knew what they would do, why did the team come out so ill prepared?
- this question is in response to another Noel gem. “Well we knew what they would do, I mean we knew that they would play hard, that they would play this way, that they would play inspired.”

9. Why does this team have collective trouble preparing for the task at hand?

10. Why did the team fly down early so as to give the players a day off in Florida?

11. How come the Jets fail with such frequency to match the same intensity of their opposition?

12. Does the team work on Pavelec's glove hand?



One thing no one will accuse Claude Noel about is being interesting with his comments but aren’t the media supposed to be asking the questions? Here is where the waters get a bit murky for the coach. More and more fans are starting to wonder why he has questions, the same as theirs, but not many answers.

The challenge here is that when the fans run out of patience and are finding their own answers to the team’s problems and the coach’s questions who else is not so far behind?

I wouldn’t suggest the clock is ticking on Claude Noel’s time in Winnipeg as that is premature and hardly necessary with the current state of this team. I would say that it would behoove Noel to find answers to his questions sooner as opposed to later as pretty soon the fans are going to be asking about changes that have nothing to do with the roster.
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