The Jets get a chance tonight to even up the series before it goes to St. Louis. If you want to sum up the last game as a lead-in for tonight's game it would be like this: the Jets best was not good enough.

If you watched the Flames vs Avalanche game last night had you swapped the Jets out for either team their opponent would have steamrolled them. The Jets need to find a way to get to that level of play and intensity and fast. Given that there will be no major tactical changes for the team then the only hope for change is the execution of each individual game. It's a bit cliché to say but what does any expect Maurice to do?

To further the cliche narrative the Jets need get far more pucks on net with a quick and unpredictable rate of attack. The forwards need to find a method of creating some chaos to get Binnington off his game, one that was as good as any goalie this post season thus far.

Pucks on net is one part of creating chaos and with that action has to come drive from the forwards to get to the front of the net and hold position. The final result should be creating more scoring chances, particularly ones that the Blues are not set to defend. Far too many times an extra pass was made or a player held the puck waiting for a better lane or some one to get into position.

Every goal in the post season is a highlight goal no matter how it's scored. So start getting them any way you can, not by a 'preferred' method. Again, look at the game last night between the Flames and Avs, the front of the net was the holy land to be battled over and did they ever. The perfect shot is not always the one that feels the best as much as the one that provides the best chance for the goalie to have trouble saving it. Shots they cannot see and ones that get through traffic that can go off pads work just as well as the shot Laine scored on.

Is there much more to add than line shuffling? Perhaps keeping the intensity up with the physical play through 60 minutes would help and a forecheck.

The Jets dump a lot of pucks in the opposition end for retrieval and in game one there was not a lot of that happening, you know retrieval. Often the dump-in was used as a tool for a line change because that line had been hemmed in it's own zone for too long. Then the cycle continued. So the problem is not that dump-ins don't work it's that they were being used to switch lines and the problem lies with getting the puck out. If there's one thing that needs to be addressed to help kick start an offense its that- hopefully we see an adjustment.

You're never in trouble when you lose game one but if you lose game 2 at home, well that's not a good thing. We'll have to see how seriously this group sees this situation and what they believe can be done to prevent going down 2-0.

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