How will a healthy Seth Jones impact the Blue Jackets-Maple Leafs series? AndrewBerkshire takes a look:
She also suggested that the Blue Jackets’ transition game changed without Jones in the lineup, so those are two areas we can look at to evaluate how Jones could impact the upcoming series against theFrom an overall skills perspective, it’s clear that the adjustments to Jones’ game did hurt his effectiveness a little bit.
On the surface Jones’ impact on transition seemed relatively small. The Blue Jackets’ controlled entry rate dropped by less than one per cent, which was surprising since Jones is in the top two per cent of all defencemen in controlled entries, with 1.46 ever 20 minutes of play at even strength, but as you dig in a bit more the change gets more severe.
The cascading impact of his loss got more severe as the granular data got finer as well, as the Blue Jackets’ ability to create scoring chances both off dump-ins and controlled entries dropped considerably. A near six percentage point drop in the number of controlled entries that resulted in a scoring chance, and nearly a nine percentage point drop for scoring chances off recovered dump-ins.
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