HardCoreBlue

My guess it has to do with cheering for our identity (that's a whole other debate) and wanting to feel as a collective. It always sounds better to me when it's done in our opponents home barns.

One can't pin Ehlers play of late on Thorburn. That's on Ehlers. Thorburn has nothing to do with Ehlers making bad decisions. He seems to be lacking confidence lately.

No one's fooled at all... Semin is awful. That being said, I would have been totally fine with Stempniak on the third line with Burmi/Ehlers instead of Thorburn. I think Maurice and company have a lot more love for Thorburn then some on this cite. Not the most athletic guy out there but I don't mind Thorburn, plays his role fairly well and chips in offensively now and then. Needs to clean up the dumb penalties but can say that for a few others as well.

Garry Galley mentioned in passing that the head refs can't review an offside challenge which then forced the linesman to review it for 9 and half hours. Insane. Trouba fighting was pure 'i got your back' type approach. That's hockey.

And Holtby was the reason the score was close for the Caps.

The answer to your question will come in the form of your posts on this site right before the game, during the game and after the game. If you do try this out let us know so we can all get our popcorn and watch (in this case read) the show :-).

Actually I hope he's not making decisions with this mindset as he'd be more apt to make a mistake.

I stopped reading right after 'thinks' :-)

I did not see that coming. Too bad his speed doesn't come a long with a Phil Housley type talent.

Iso, you know football better than me -- say Drew Willy thought that MB was an idiot and his offence was dogshit, do you think he'd really be super frank about expressing that opinion? Or maybe he just doesn't want to "WILLY PUBLICLY QUESTIONS COACH" over a Friesen byline? Behind the scenes I'm guessing he would if that's how he felt.

Great point. Maybe we hire an assistant OC (I know, maybe not realistic) who has high levels of emotional intelligence to handle the internal 'offense player issues'. Just let Cortez focus on customizing x's and o's match our current talent and let the assistant translate it to the players. Everyone brings a different but needed skill set to the table.

I'm with you, what a nice feeling it would be to hear 'Jets win another', 'Bombers look great for upcoming 2016 season' while I open my Visa bill showing a lot of Jet and Bomber purchases I made in the month of December. Most of them 'to me from me' type presents. :-)

I'm with you. I say we light up this goaltender tonight. Lowry scores two to get his confidence back.

I'm nuetral on Cortez but that's a bit harsh. What's missing from his approach that reflects today's game? Being grumpy and over the hill as someone else remarked isn't really a reason. Most coaches are grumpy all the time. Age is not a factor imo.

Wonder if Montreal may sniff around because of any possible paranoia that may be present with Price's health . . .

Ehlers tries too hard to draw penalties. I also think the physicality of the game at this level is catching up to him. When the Jets play a big strong mean game Ehlers pays for it as they go for him. He's got to play fearless and get back to his game. Also, Thorburn and Peluso need to say uh no, he's not your punching bag opposition.

When thew Jets first came back to our fine city, I wasn't a huge fan of Little. I'm a huge fan now, one could almost say underrated, or at least not talked about enough.

You can admit to being wrong you know....especially when it is proven with your own words.Give me a list of those teams and we will see the difference between the jets and them. Jets are a bubble team playoff pretender. They have made it once for God's sake and were swept. I'll admit I'm wrong when you make a trade proposal that makes sense Exactly, which means tinker not rebuild. And I wouldn't call them playoff pretenders. Yes swept but they held their own for the most part. They're actually built (mostly), big, physical for a tough playoff run.

Out of curiousity, has Maurice and/or Stafford alludeed to this new role in any press/media interviews/clips? Thought Maurice did in the last couple weeks. Thanks, I'd like to hear how he explains it. Because I'm still not sure (not being an NHL coach that I am) of why we would change his when the original one he played when he came over here did us pretty good. How bout this article? http://www.winnipegsun.com/2015/10/26/too-close-for-comfort-for-jets Ken Wiebe - Clearly, Stafford's production hasn't dropped off, despite being used in more of a defensive role. Ladd - He's probably in a different role than he has been before, but to his credit, he's embraced it. Maurice - He's found what will make a player very, valuable. A guy who has the ability to put pucks in the net, but to play in that shutdown role and still produce. Hmmm all right then. Interesting. Thanks.

For me no issues with Trouba, love him, just more of 'got to give something to get something' type thing that's all. Unless of course you can hoodwink Garth Snow, go for it.

http://islanders.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=788686 Okay I like him even more now. Stafford and Trouba for Hamonic and 1st round pick.

Out of curiousity, has Maurice and/or Stafford alludeed to this new role in any press/media interviews/clips? Thought Maurice did in the last couple weeks. Thanks, I'd like to hear how he explains it. Because I'm still not sure (not being an NHL coach that I am) of why we would change his when the original one he played when he came over here did us pretty good.

So, they're chosen as all stars, and can't find the oomph to try and win the game for the charity of their choice, in what will be a fun game of 3 on 3? Was there money involved in the all-star games before? Other than to their pensions? Money shouldn't be the incentive. But that's just me. No money wasn't involved before. Not even to their pensions. No one gets paid for it, it is something they have to do per their contracts. I'm pretty sure they get a bunch of "gifts" and shwag throughout the weekend, but I don't believe there was any money prior to this year. Have you watched an all star game recently? You can talk about what they "should" do but they don't. It is boring hockey because it is a meaningless game and no one wants to get hurt in a meaningless game. And even with money on the line, it probably will still not change anything. But you asked why not give the money to charity, and the rational for the money was to put something on the line for the players so they "try". Truth be told I wouldn't care if they cancelled the all star game all together. Probably won't watch it regardless, How about instead of money, the losing players have to waive their no-trade clauses? Or the winning players get to add to the losing players lists of where they would agree to play if traded? I'm thinking I'd see a lot of hustle out there :-)

Out of curiousity, has Maurice and/or Stafford alludeed to this new role in any press/media interviews/clips?