Rich

What was he thinking?

Now that Babcock has set the $6M a year benchmark, it will be interesting to see how it affects other coaching signings like Julien.

If we were going to replace Maurice, Julien would have been nice in the off season Never been a fan of Therrien. Then again, Jets probably aren't going to replace Maurice.

NHL experience aside, Scheif and Lowry are the oldest of that group at 23. Think of personal experiences and group dynamics when you have a bunch of people in that age group together. There is often no substitute for life experience and maturity to lead and keep together a group of people.

People complain can rightly complain about some of the individual performances of some of the veterans on the team, but suggesting to trade them all away because we “suck” is foolish IMO. We’ve seen what happens when you go all young with other teams. It isn’t good. There are things veterans do day in day out that impact the team in ways we will never see during a game. You cannot go all young, and it is important for some of those veterans to have an important role on the team. (ie. I don’t think it works if you fill your vet quota by trading away your “star” vets and replace them with 3rd and 4th liners who are vets). Buff needs to play less minutes per game to be more effective overall. I seriously wonder if Wheeler is playing hurt. He has not looked his usual self these last couple of weeks. Not that long ago people are praising his on ice work ethic and effort game in and game out. “He is a guy who leads by example on the ice.” Knee jerk reaction though to take a two week sample and declare that Wheeler sucks and we should trade him and go into a full out youth movement. There is nothing wrong with having players in their 30s. It isn’t a dirty or bad thing. There is nothing wrong with having young players in the lineup. Unless you are going all in and are a legit competition for the cup, having all players in their 30s is a bad thing. Having all young players with no to little experience in the room is also a bad thing. It isn’t an exact science, but you need to find the right mix of old and young. Deciding to trade away MOST of your vets because the current mix isn’t working is foolish

Right before Free Agency....

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/same-old-blue-and-gold-413371123.html This doesn't sound like someone with a ton of cap space.

Scheifele didn't score enough goals for us to win.

If Helle played well, he played well. The team didn't play well enough to win. That is all people are saying. Don't put wins and losses solely on a goalie or say the goalie didn't play well enough for the sole fact we lost.

This is the problem. You are arguing things that Ive never said. Maybe if you try to read what people are saying rather then go into this routine you have here, this would be a happier place. I've never said I want stats over wins. Yet here we are arguing about it. I want people on this forum to be able to discuss the performance of a goalie without someone replying to every post that it doesn't matter cause we didn't win. And honestly, wins don't even matter at this point. We are in next year territory already.

This is essentially what you are saying when you say wins are the only thing that matters when judging a goalies performance.

Jets lose 5 - 2. Hutch posts on .871. Apparently wins aren't always the only thing that matter.

Quit putting words into people's mouths to try and prove a point. It gets tiring and exhausting reading this stuff. No one has ever said they don't care about wins.

You are right of course the game of hockey is solely decided by how many pucks a team saves, not how many goals a team scores. Now I know, thanks for the education. When we win, the goalie played well. When we lose, the goalie didn't. The rest doesn't matter.

You confuse people rating a single players performance with a game result. The win is a team stat. Everyone would rather have the win. But you can still rate how a single player played.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/manitoba/paypal-freezes-flin-flon-newspaper-syrian-refugees-1.3977292

Darling is a UFA, so you would either have to be giving up a low draft pick for neg rights or have had talks with him and be relatively sure you can sign him. Now even if you do all that, then you aren't protecting both Darling and Hellebuyck, so you will risk losing one of them. Best case would be to sign him without giving up anything in free agency.

They were saying on the radio today they figure the Jets can only lose 5 or 6 more games max the rest of the way if they want to make the playoffs. Not gonna happen.

Definitely on the older side. Trump by comparison though will be 71 this summer.

Damn fat fingers.