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Salary wise that is an extra $1.5M for Buff and an extra $1.5M for Ladd (probably more in the first couple of years depending how the salary is structured) Cap hit would be and extra $2.5M for Buff and $1.5M for Ladd. The Jets have the lowest payroll in the league right now with $11.5M open in cap space. This certainly wouldn't preclude them from signing Trouba and Scheifele. And by the time the other prospects are looking for their 2nd / 3rd deals, players like Enstrom and Stafford would be coming off the books. You have Perreault and Burmi coming off their contracts next year. Would really like to see Perreault re-signed. If you sign both of them and you put Sheifele and Trouba on long term deals, you are pretty close to a cap team at that point. Giving Trouba a bridge deal would give you some wiggle room for a couple of years, but you may pay for it later.

They should live by the mess they create. The fans voted him in by the rules they made. The fans have spoken. The all star game is a joke. They just proved it. Who really even enjoys the all star game? Is it the kids? If not why do we even have it.

This is exactly my point. Do you consider us a playoff team this year? If you were putting down money today, would you be betting on the Jets making the playoffs or not? How so? He will still be a 19 year old rookie. With a few small exceptions (these being the generational talents), relying on a 19 year old rookie to be a top 6 contributor basically means you aren't a playoff team. They are too inconsistent while they learn the game at the pro level. Agree with most of this. But the way I see it is you have a choice to make. Sign Ladd or sign some other experienced LW in FA, but if you are pushing Connor into a top 6 role next year, especially if that is the way you are starting the season ... you are heading for a bottom 10 finish again.

I think the expectation for Connor to slip into a top 6 role next year is a bit premature. Yes he is looking great in the NCAA right now, but he is still only going to be 19 years old to start the year next year. And if he does make the team next year he is going to have a lot of ups and downs like Ehlers has this year. You always hear Chevy talking about over ripening prospects with the Moose. When does that actually happen? I'm not necessarily advocating that we should be re-signing Ladd, but if Connor is a top 6 winger on the Jets next year, we aren't a playoff team again. If Ladd isn't re-signed, we really need a stop gap LW from FA for a couple of years.

What's the rush?

face off, eh

Yeah, this functionality is a little weird for how long it stays around after you click / choose something. Same thing if you quote someone by accident, it stays around, even if you navigate away from the page and come back. Basically I think you need to past the quote in to get rid of that box, then delete the quote. To delete the quote you need to hold down CTRL while right clicking on it. Of course that doesn't work on a tablet. I haven't really used the site on a tablet so can't really offer advice on it until I can try it out.

Curious to see what Lipon can do.

Disagree that a 25 year old player has hit his ceiling.

Interesting that Hellebuyck has now played more games this season (18) then both Pavs (15) and Hutch (17). 11-6-0 2 shutouts and .931 save pct.

Best team effort by the Jets in a long time. Depleted line up, back to back nights, and they dig deep. Shutout for Helle.

Purely because of his size, lets compare him to Chara. Chara spent his first 3 years with the Islanders, then 4 years with Ottawa before going to Boston. In Boston at the age of 28, he became the dominant defenceman that helped them win their cup. Chara went to Ottawa as part of the Yashin deal. Good trade for Ottawa. Horrible trade for the Islanders giving up on him. Ottawa had to choose between Chara and Wade Redden. They chose Redden in favour of Chara and let Chara walk in free agency. Chara was showing flashes and was a solid player, but certainly not what he would become in Boston. Horrible decision by Ottawa. Myers has spent 4 1/2 years with Buffalo and 1 1/2 years with Winnipeg and is now age 25. Do you want to be Ottawa and the islanders in the career of Myers or would you rather keep him and find out what he can become.

About the embedding ... I should also note that if you did this shortly after the upgrade of the site, only #3 above would have worked or it would have been converted to a link (and if that is what you just copied and pasted, it would remain a link). There have been a few updates since the upgrade, one was auto embedding.

That is a horrible starting lineup. The 4th line will never see the ice.

I think it is because you pasted it as a full html link instead of just text. This editor will try to keep whatever formatting you have from your source copy. It needs to just be text with no formatting to auto embed. So a couple of options: When copying the link, copy it from the address bar of your browser and it shouldn't carry any other formatting. Hold down command + right-click (This could be something other than command on a Windows machine), then a pop-up menu will allow you to paste without formatting. Click the last icon on the right of the toolbar (looks like a movie film + music note). This is an embed media button. You can paste the URL in there to embed it On a side note, for people who have tried quoting someone then changed your mind and couldn't get rid of the quote ... that command + right click on the quote will give you an option to delete it.

YouTube works for me. Could you send me an example of the URL you tried?

Different situation. Broom was signed and under contract for next season. Moore is set to be a FA and a new deal would have to be negotiated to retain him. If the two sides aren't anywhere close, it doesn't really matter if you cut him now or lose him in free agency.

Housley is an assistant coach in Nashville, so he was in the building last night.

If no one ever says NO then why do agents negotiate this into contracts? It all depends on the situation and the team he would be traded to.