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Ehlers should have made the team easily.

Yup. League average goaltending and we could make the playoffs. Helle probably gives us that. Pavelec certainly doesn't 

It's not Armia vs Dano. It's just a discussion. Interesting things about these topics is you don't have to participate in them. 

Interesting trade. Canucks are an example of a team that really needs to blow it up and rebuild but the owner and Vancouver tge city for that matter don't have the patience for it so they will be stuck in a bad place for a while. I'd say that I feel sorry for Canucks fans but they are such bandwagon jumpers that I'm not. 

Right.  If he's that good, we might be able to trade Little next year.  Perhaps to Edmonton for Myers.

Myers + ?, is that farfetched for 4th overall?

It's a discussion thread. Whats wrong with talking about potential trades? Isn't this kind of the point of a discussion forum like this? 

I just hope we pick Laine at 2. Forget packaging picks & players & moving down... Laine is the real deal,

Like Auston Matthews... Nolan Patrick has a late birthday. Matthews born September 1997. Patrick was born September 1998. Both missed the cut off draft day by less than a week. If both were born a week earlier... Matthews would have been draft eligible last year. Would have probably gone 3rd to Arizona behind McDavid and Eichel. Patrick would be top 3 maybe even top 2 this year. No doubt the jets would taken him. 
 

TO doesn't take Matthews then we do without hesitation....he is a franchise center.

If Ovi ever became a Winnipeg Jet.........I'd become an even bigger Oilers fan than I currently am. Ugh. Hate that piece of crap.

If Toronto takes Laine, then Chevy should just run up to the podium with a Matthews sweater and say "Thank you Toronto" and drop the mic.

Just like Eichel wasn't guaranteed to be a Sabre last year. But he was. The media just speculated otherwise because if the top two picks are so obvious, what else are they going to talk about?
If Laine isn't a Jet, it's because Matthews is. Not because Puljujarvi is. That's no slight on Puljujarvi either, by all accounts he's a hell of a hockey player. He impressed me a ton during the WJC. But not only is Laine better, he's exactly what this team needs.

Chevy has said he's not trading the pick. Posting Eklund thoughts is pointless. The guy is wrong all the time. 

- It makes sense for the Jets to pick the new Finnish Flash, so why not have the original, Teemu Selanne, on stage to hand the jersey to Patrik Laine? He offers the skill and size that every team wants to add. An elite offensive player with the ability to score in multiple ways, Laine can do it with a panache, flair and confidence not often seen by players this young. 
- Winnipeg has an additional first-round pick acquired from Chicago in the Andrew Ladd trade. The Jets do a terrific job of adding players of all types and positions that keep their prospect cupboard well stocked. German Rubtsov was unable to participate in the IIHF Under ’18 tourney because of doping scandal in Russia. Rubtsov is a tireless, skilled competitor. While he may have been out of sight at the tournament, nothing escapes the eyes of the Jets’ scouting staff.

That would be interesting.  I guess it would be one way to make sure the Moose are using the Jets' systems.  And a way to replace him without eating his salary.

In closer to home NHL/AHL news, Rumors have Pascal Vincent becoming the next head coach of the Moose. Interesting if true, cuz he was in charge of our PP and PK the last few years and hasn't really done a good job, The only positive i could think of would be we'd have a new guy in charge, Jets that is. 

Just mean the Jets and Isles couldn't reach a deal. Despite what some may say... it was WPG or NYI all along. Edmonton was never an option for Hamonic 

Lemieux Lowry Dano is a perfect 4th line that can probably play 10 minutes a night. Not your average 4th line either. 

fixed it for you......he does not belong in the league....he is a good 8th D man but way overpaid....I've been saying this all year....it is very apparent and I really don't care how good he is in the room....move him to mentor the Moose and maybe one day coach them.

Laine will not play in Europe next year and Connor will not be in the A...

Ya, a couple of oops...it was supposed to be the 2016 season.
Little out Lemieux in.

Stafford played on the third line quite a bit. Stemp was on NJ first line. Stop with the Stempniak stuff. It's pointless. All he does is take a spit away from a guy like Armia or a bottom 6 guy cuz he wouldn't be playing 1st or 2nd line or PP minutes here. He was a rental. That's all he was. They got swept. They moved on. Time to move on. It's been more than a year now. Let it go. 

I wish the expansion draft wasn't as clear as mud...

Laine rips it up in second straight game.  
For the second straight game, 18-year-old winger Patrik Laine set the tone for Finland with two goals and an assist in Sunday’s 5-1 win over Germany.
Again from the left faceoff circle, Laine added his fourth of the tournament on the power play with three seconds left. Chants of "Laine! Laine!" erupted from the Suomi supporters.