Ducky

Myers-Enstrom and Buff-Trouba should play PK......PP too. Stu should be nowhere near our special teams.

Rugged is fine but Stuart is a liability.Kichton will not play many (if any) games for the Jets. Eberle and RNH both make 6m a year and their cap hit is 6m a year. Leave Morrissey with the Moose until he is ready....rushing him isn't doing anyone any good. I'd rather see them sign Buff and trade Myers and Ladd but I don't think that will happen. Your comments on Stuart are silly. He is a third pairing d-man. What exactly are you expecting from him? Third pairing guys across the league get burned on a nightly basis. My comments on Stuart are silly? You don't think he is a liability? You don't think he is rugged? What am I expecting of him? Not to be a liability or hopefully be a 6th or 7th on another team! If you are okay with Stu being an everyday D man, you should set your bar higher. If he is going to play every game, there is no legitimate reason for him to see more than 9-10 minutes a game at the most. I'd rather Chiarot started than Stuart but we have nobody to replace him. We need a 1LHD or 2LHD...it is our biggest need now that Helle is playing above average in net.

Hutch

Like Buff?

It would be nice to lock up Trouba and Scheifele for 8 years but if it is a bridge, lock them up for 8 at the next negotiation. 26 and negotiate an eight year deal and the player's contract ends at 33....not a bad age for a contract to end really.

That's a pretty bold move for a team that's got two high profile RFAs of their own to deal with. The Pens don't have the cap room, we do. You don't think Maatta is worth 36 over 7 years? It'd cost us a 1st and a 3rd but we don't have our third this upcoming draft so moot point... I'd give Buff 40 over 5 or tell him to start packing. Ladd I would offer 5.8m over 6 or tell him to start packing too. Trouba I would offer 3m per over 2 years or 48m over 8. Scheif I would offer 44m over 8 years. Lowry gets a bridge at 2m per for 3 years and Hutch gets 1.1m per year for 2 years. Armia I would offer 1m per year over 3 years.

Actually, if I were Chevy and the Jets had their 3rd round pick in 2016, I would offer Maatta a serious offer for 7 years.

Kunitz won't get you much and if some of their young guns are offered big RFA money, they will lose them, too.

Dal Colle cut from the juniors is surprising.

I think it was Kadri but ya, someone skated right into him and Myers get the two m inutes...one of the worst calls all year if not the worst.

A silent protest because Buff's penalty was the only deserving one he said.

https://www.reddit.com/r/winnipegjets/comments/3vv0q1/mark_chipman_not_okay_on_losing_buff_and_ladd/?ref=readnext_7

Let's not forget, if it takes 13m to sign Buff and Ladd and we don't sign them, we can still try to replace them on the UFA market. RFA market will be interesting in 2016 too. Lots of teams up against the cap needing to sign important young players. Pitt and the Ducks might lose some young players.

I agree with a lot this. if Buff and Ladd aren't going to sign for reasonable term/cash contracts, trade them to a team that will and a team that will send back some nice picks/prospects. I'd go as far as 7.5m per year for 5 years for Buff but wouldn't give 6x6 for Ladd. He doesn't bring enough to the table to garner that cash. 6x6 is at the very outside of what he should get. I think a LOT of people on here don't realize just how much Buff will get in a trade. Theodore, Chychrun, Pouliot would all look great on the Jets roster. The Isles would never ship a 1st, Hamonic and Dal Colle for Buff, Perreault and Armia. They wouldn't trade Hamonic for Buff do you think they would trade Dal Colle and a 1st for Perreault and Armia? I'd really like to see Okposo come over with Hamonic or Kreider form the Rangers. What about Kreider (RFA next year)and Macdonagh for Myers, Lemieux, Armia and a 1st in 2017? Then send Buff, Ladd and Burmi to the Isles for Hamonic and Okposo (UFA next year). We'd be trading over 18m (this year's value) for about (14m this year's value). I'd give Okposo the 5.5 or 6 he will be asking for and Kreider about 4.5-5m he is going to ask for. We'd be giving up a lot of team identity and youth but we would be getting back quality players that play hockey the right way. Kreider Little Wheeler Perreault Scheif Okposo Ehlers Copp Stafford Petan Lowry Thorbs Mcdonagh Trouba Enstrom Hamonic Stuart/Morrisey Postma Helle Pavs/Hutch

Exactly, find out what we are doing with them and do it already. Holding on too much longer isn't doing anyone any good.

They should play the next one they call up...

They won't count themselves out yet and they shouldn't. They have a chance but realistically, I can't see them making the playoffs. It's not the end of the world. Remember, if not for Pavs incredible goaltending late last season, we don't make them last year either. I'd really like to see what Armia and Ehlers could do with some skilled players and also what Lipon could do on the 4th line. Lowry's lack of progression REALLY hurt the Jets this year as they were hoping for so much more out of him. If he continued on his upward curve, he is still the 3rd line center and things are much better.

I'd rather have Malkin.

Where did I say that I thought they were contenders? I thought I was the one saying they weren't making the playoffs. You don't write for the Sun do you?

The Jets play 16 in 31....tell me another team that plays 16 in March and if you count April, it is 21 games in 40 days NEVER getting off more than one day. Twelve of the twenty-one are at home. I don't think they will make the playoffs regardless of their schedule but their schedule is horrendous. They really haven't showed me they can play with any consistently this season. I don't know why. Their goaltending needs to be better and hopefully with Helle it will be but there are too many good teams in their division ahead of them. I really hope I am wrong and wish they would go on a tear and light it up but I don't see that happening. I'm also not saying they played really poorly in Chicago because I don't think they did. They are playing undisciplined and there are quite a few of their players not playing up to expectations. We are a -9 in the goals for and against and the GAA this season is too high. Overall D is poor and not one of the top 3 lines has been consistent. Scheif's has been really good but not consistent. The 4th line isn't played enough to say really. We need a LHD and a top 6 LW would be nice too. We'll be contenders but not this year and probably not next either.

Hate to break it to you but they are on the wrong side of the hill now....Malkin will be 30 before the start of next season and Sid is a year younger. You'd think they would have done better than they did with the talent they had.

The gm in Pitt is the biggest problem. Why'd they fire Blysma again?

They have 16 games in March....they got royally screwed on the schedule this year.

Jets were shut out last night and Peluso will dress and Armia is sent down? He made some solid cash while up with the big team but he needs to play. What he really needs to do is go down to the farm and play lights out so they have no choice but to call him back up. He is an RFA after this season and really isn't helping himself that much. He is only 22 but you would thin k he would be seeing some time witht he big team soon.

noticed you didn't resurrect it until they went on a winning streak...cough... McLellan has them playing sound hockey.