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Jets Grades: Postma and Melchiori |
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Jets Grades Postma and Melchiori
Ahh where to start with old Paul Postma? The guy who can never find steady ice time unless injury befalls some other Jets rear guard. Then who is Julian Melchiori as well? Is he any more respected or notable than Postma, a player the Jets might never give up on but also retain to do very little.
Postma is a very curious case for some Jets fans and pundits. He seems to have skills, he appears to keep up with play and he appears to help drive play towards the other end of the ice. Yet he is so rarely trusted by the coaching staff to be used regularly and no one seems to know why.
Postma only played in 26 games this season yet posted the second highest CF% for defense players at 53.77%. His PDO was way below the mean at 96.12 the lowest aside from Adam Pardy and lower than Stuarts. He’s a defenseman so we don’t expect his on-ice shooting percent to too high and it wasn’t at 5.96%, the second lowest on the team. His on-ice save % was low too, lower than Stu’s as well at 90.16. It begs the question what happens when Postma is on the ice if he’s not helping driving play to the other end?
So when taking a larger look at Postma’s body of work, going back to cover 3 seasons we see that he has a CF of 52.29%- second again in Jets defense. His PDO is 98.95 so edging closer to the mean but ahead of Buff. The problem is in the past 3 seasons Postma has only seen 88 games. That’s it. In those 88 games he is middle of the road in on-ice save % at 92.48 when compared to the rest of the defense.
So what gives? That is the curious case of Paul Postma and one that is hard to understand.
Grade C+
Melchiori is the twin tower to Myers. A tall, 6 feet 5 inch, player who has a similar skill set to Myers but without the offensive bursts up the ice, at least not yet. He only has a career total of 12 NHL games with 11 being played this season. Is it worth looking at his numbers and would they even tell us anything based on the sample size?
Based on CF he was hardly driving play with a number at 44.58% but his PDO was a tidy 101.75 boosted by a 94.29% on-ice save percentage. In the end there’s not much to say about Melchiori based on such a small sample of his play. His size could be an asset but if he is to make any impact it has to start soon as he is 24 and likely at the tipping point of whether he can find NHL work with the Jets or anywhere else.
How do you give some one a grade who played just 9% of the season? In this case you guess and he gets this:
Grade C
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