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Post by ekjet72 on Apr 5, 2024 13:43:06 GMT -6
Nice win. Nothing about beating Calgary gives me any more confidence than I've had before. Far too many lapses that the Avs or Stars will exploit. Indeed. First and particularly 2nd period lapses. Are the vets pacing themselves knowing its been several games now where they have bagged and tagged the playoffs? I'm sure if you still have a lot to prove, contract renewals etc., young, you're hyper every game some exceptions excluded. Boston last year is a lesson in max performance in the regular season and laying an egg come playoff time. Coach himself has tacitly suggested this by a revolving door in the 5,6 d positions. Bagged and tagged? LOL. That's usually a negative. Hopefully they survive in the playoffs. Although I am skeptical. Revolving door in the 5&6 D positions. I wish the in door on Pionk was closed!
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Post by hillman on Apr 5, 2024 13:48:04 GMT -6
The consensus of the game postings and post-game comments is that few of us, if any, have any great expectations about the Jets surviving or even threatening in the first round of the playoff- just like previous years. To add to the miseries, we will probably have a different coach (and maybe a new GM) next season with little prospect of significant improvement next season. Its a Hobson's choice: remain as is and repeat the previous performances or clean house and look at a 2-3 year rebuild. I don't think the future is all that bleak if whoever is in charge is willing to walk away from players at the right time. The Jets have at least three good top 6 forward prospects due to enter the NHL either starting next year (Lambert/McGroarty), or for sure by the next. With Barlow, I would think he is a season or two away from adding another pure goal scorer (possibly in time to replace Connor's production?). Really it is only the defense that is unknown, with only a couple defensive RHD prospects in the weeds (Lundmark/Salomonsson). Unfortunately, the best way to get a great d-man is to finish as the 3rd to 10th worst team, which isn't really something I see for the Jets anytime soon. So that is likely to remain an issue unless Winnipeg strikes gold with a later pick or pulls out a d-man in a trade for one of our current top players (most likely Ehlers/Connor since their contracts are up next). Cleaning house and going for a rebuild will never happen in Winnipeg. Number one, I'd like to know how often it really works. Rarely will it work in 2 or 3 years. Maybe 5 years. And then there is the big risk: Buffalo no playoffs in the entire time the Jets 2.0 have been back. 13 frigging years Detroit nothing in 7 years Edmonton had a run of no playoffs for 10 years and still haven't found the holy grail despite having the best player in the world after picking 1st overall year after year. This franchise plain and simple cannot blow things up and rebuild. And True Norh knows it. If we by chance fall into the deep dark hole of those teams the franchise will be gone, never to return. So as you say BOJA it's a matter of knowing when to move on from 1 and promote another. There's some pretty good prospects in the pipeline.Chevy isn't going anywhere. It's highly possible he wins GM of the year.I'm not sure about Bones. Yes, the last while has been trying but I'm not writing them off.
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Post by Tracker on Apr 5, 2024 20:58:49 GMT -6
The consensus of the game postings and post-game comments is that few of us, if any, have any great expectations about the Jets surviving or even threatening in the first round of the playoff- just like previous years. To add to the miseries, we will probably have a different coach (and maybe a new GM) next season with little prospect of significant improvement next season. Its a Hobson's choice: remain as is and repeat the previous performances or clean house and look at a 2-3 year rebuild. I don't think the future is all that bleak if whoever is in charge is willing to walk away from players at the right time. The Jets have at least three good top 6 forward prospects due to enter the NHL either starting next year (Lambert/McGroarty), or for sure by the next. With Barlow, I would think he is a season or two away from adding another pure goal scorer (possibly in time to replace Connor's production?). Really it is only the defense that is unknown, with only a couple defensive RHD prospects in the weeds (Lundmark/Salomonsson). Unfortunately, the best way to get a great d-man is to finish as the 3rd to 10th worst team, which isn't really something I see for the Jets anytime soon. So that is likely to remain an issue unless Winnipeg strikes gold with a later pick or pulls out a d-man in a trade for one of our current top players (most likely Ehlers/Connor since their contracts are up next). You are correct about the defence, but its not all on the d-men. Too often lately the forwards have been cheating out of the defensive zone and not following the system by backchecking and so forth.
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