Incoming slightly drunken wall of text
What a season, what a crazy, unpredictable, unlucky season for this awesome franchise. 2014-15 will go down in history as the year the Jackets were about 2 weeks from making a huge run at the playoffs. But, at the end of the day it wasn't meant to be, just way too many injuries to key players. Yet, dare i say it, this season has been just as much of a success as last year! With the Jackets winning against the Isles tonight, this season we've recorded second highest number of wins in franchise history! With over 500 man games lost this is an awesome accomplishment, just imagine where how many wins they could have if it were only 250 man games...Furthermore, we were one win away from having as many wins as 4 playoff bound teams.
How about some of the seasons that the boys have had though! Where else to start but with Nick "Fuck Regression" Foligno, the absolute heart and soul of this team. Hopefully he can be given the C over this offseason so he can officially be Captain Crazy Eyes. But what a season he has had, currently sitting in the top 10 in points with 31g 42a 73p(in front of guys like Stamkos, Malkin, Toews and Getzlaf i might add). Oh and we resigned him midseason!
Next up, Joey! Talk about earning a pay check, 26g 45a 71p he's shown everyone that he's the franchise 1c this team has desperately been waiting for! Also is anyone more unstoppable in the shootout, i almost feel bad for any goalie who has to face him. Lastly it appears to me that any of the friction that was caused by both parties actions prior to Joey signing has become water under the bridge, which is great news.
What about the Chaperoned line! Hartsy, with 27g 31a 58p looks reborn with Wenny and Dano, really enjoyed what these guys have done over the last month or so! Dano with Hartsy is just pure gold and Wenny has really developed after a shaky start to the season.
This could go on for days, so maybe its a good time to focus on the not so positive aspects of the season. For starters HCTR keeps playing Jared "Makes a pylon look useful" Boll, i'll never for the life of me understand why Dano got scratched for him a few games back. As well as this the role of an enforcer who can't produce anything has died out, John Scott and Boll are basically the last, and even Scott had pretty much a career year urgh. Next we traded away Wiz, one of our better Dman, for about 30 higher spots in the draft as well as Karlsson and Bourque. Now while both of these guys have been good for the time they've been with the team, i can't help but feel we got a somewhat low return for Wiz. However, it did clear some cap space, which assisted the Jackets to resign Cam, Doobs, Bob and Foligno to their respective contracts. Lastly, the team now has a dilemma to resolve over the offseason, which will likely end up with a club favourite being moved, or not resigning. The team just simply has too much talent at Centre, which means that in my eyes either Anisimov or Letestu won't be back next year :(. But, all in all, this has been an incredibly positive year for the Jackets despite missing the playoffs and being injured a proverbial fuckton.
Finally to finish this arduous read, the Jackets have set some incredible milestones during this season, from having two players score 70 points in a season, to having more than 500 man games lost. Yet despite it all, they never gave up, even when it was clear to all that the season was a complete write off. This is what needs to be taken away from this season, forget the injuries, forget missing the playoffs. Next season will be better, our rookies will have another preseason under their belts, guys like Joey and Jenner will be stronger, faster and more confident and of course we will have our reliable guys like Foligno, Doobs and Bob. Add into that, a top 10 pick this draft as well as Rychel and possibly Bjork and Milano.
It is simply an amazing time to be a CBJ fan, 2014-15 may not have gone quite to plan, but, i can't wait for 2015-16, watch out Metro and the rest of the NHL cause we'll be giving you hell all next season!
FIRE THE CANNON ONE LAST TIME FOR THIS SEASON C! B! J!
Again, apologies for the incredible wall of text, i was slightly (very) drunk when i started writing this. Also /u/topcopontheforce told me to post it haha
Submitted April 11, 2015 at 10:49PM by imbored343 http://ift.tt/1EoH7My
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