Around the NHL 11 - 2023/24

[Jets 31]

The Jets go into the playoffs giving up the least amount of goals in the league and Florida is second. In the playoffs the Jets defense looked like it was the worst in the league and Florida shut down every team they played and about to win the Cup. I just can't wrap my head around how we turned into an absolute embarrassment.

Our "Best" players weren't our best players, nobody played well. Hopefully we can figure out why next season.

 

[Cnile]

Our "Best" players weren't our best players, nobody played well. Hopefully we can figure out why next season.

Hopefully we can figure out…

I guess we can crow about the regular season but it’s not a very good plan.

Is Arneil the guy ?
Stay tuned

 

[Jet]

The Stanley Cup is a club trophy awarded to a team in a specific city... it is NOT a trophy awarded to a Country.

Buffalo has never won the Cup. Do you think people in that city are happy because Florida wins it? Will they be more OK with missing the playoffs for 13 straight seasons, because they can wake up and be happy a U.S. team won it?

How about San Jose, Arizona, Nashville, Minnesota. Are they all going ... USA USA after Florida wins?

People need to get over this...

Yeah this is probably the weakest argument to follow a Canadian team post season.

f*** each and every one of the Canadian teams not named the Jets.

 

[bustamente]

You would have to think being swept in a SC final would be demoralizing to the team and fanbase.

 

[sipowicz]

Bob is the reason Florida will win this. Not blaming Skinner for the Oilers losing, but the quality of the goaltending between the two teams is huge.

Hope Helly is watching…

Has Bob even told reporters that he is playing great!?

 

[Zippity]

The Jets go into the playoffs giving up the least amount of goals in the league and Florida is second. In the playoffs the Jets defense looked like it was the worst in the league and Florida shut down every team they played and about to win the Cup. I just can't wrap my head around how we turned into an absolute embarrassment.

Jets have zero grit and passion. Defense sucks.
Lb should have got a few games in.
Watching other series, Jets aren’t even close to make it to the show.

 

[wpgallday1960]

Jets have zero grit and passion. Defense sucks.
Lb should have got a few games in.
Watching other series, Jets aren’t even close to make it to the show.

Hopefully this is where the Jets learned something. TB was swept by Columbus after a record setting regular season then won the SC next season. I’m hoping for a similar story arc.

 

[BobTheSolarsystem]

Hopefully this is where the Jets learned something. TB was swept by Columbus after a record setting regular season then won the SC next season. I’m hoping for a similar story arc.

Tampa ran into a hot goalie and their own egos... they had the best special teams in the league - jets have a steeper hill to climb

 

[WolfgangPuck]

The Jets go into the playoffs giving up the least amount of goals in the league and Florida is second. In the playoffs the Jets defense looked like it was the worst in the league and Florida shut down every team they played and about to win the Cup. I just can't wrap my head around how we turned into an absolute embarrassment.

There are some players that get wired up just for the playoffs and some that don’t have that extra focus. I don’t think new coach is going to motivate our current roster for playoffs.

 

[Jet]

There are some players that get wired up just for the playoffs and some that don’t have that extra focus. I don’t think new coach is going to motivate our current roster for playoffs.

I think that the right guys incorporated into the lineup can help bring others into the fight

I'm disappointed as I thought we had those players. Schiefele, Lowry, Morrissey, Hellebuyck, Niederrater and Namestnikov. You'd think that would be enough - even Toffoli has shown playoff intensity.

Something is stinky in the Jets dressing room STILL. Based on things I've heard and thought I may know who it is but I can't post here because I don't have first hand vetted knowledge.

If it's true, we're boned.

 

[Maukkis]

Certainly an element of truth to this. In hindsight, the worst decision that chevy ever made was to trade with Vegas for 1 more year of a declining Enstrom. Could have drafted Suzuki and had a damn good 1-2 centre punch right now.

Looking back at the protection list today, it likely came down to moving down 11 spots to ensure that Armia and Copp (and Perreault) weren't going to become casualties of Enstrom's NMC. Given how Copp turned out, that probably was a good decision - and let's not forget what we got out of Armia and Perreault (and Enstrom in 17-18!).

Of course, the optics of the trade are hideous in hindsight, with Vegas hitting on Suzuki and the Jets screwing Vesalainen over, but at least we salvaged value by not losing a good young asset in Copp (or Armia, who knows who would have gone to Vegas otherwise).

I'd say Chevy's worst move was pretty clearly the Hayes trade, because acquiring rentals when the team sucks is the equivalent of incinerating capital. Fortunately, the list of his truly bad moves is quite short.

 

[sipowicz]

I think that the right guys incorporated into the lineup can help bring others into the fight

I'm disappointed as I thought we had those players. Schiefele, Lowry, Morrissey, Hellebuyck, Niederrater and Namestnikov. You'd think that would be enough - even Toffoli has shown playoff intensity.

Something is stinky in the Jets dressing room STILL. Based on things I've heard and thought I may know who it is but I can't post here because I don't have first hand vetted knowledge.

If it's true, we're boned.

Seems like the Jets have too many players content on just playing Oct-April, playoffs interfere with their summer plans!

 

[BobTheSolarsystem]

I think that the right guys incorporated into the lineup can help bring others into the fight

I'm disappointed as I thought we had those players. Schiefele, Lowry, Morrissey, Hellebuyck, Niederrater and Namestnikov. You'd think that would be enough - even Toffoli has shown playoff intensity.

Something is stinky in the Jets dressing room STILL. Based on things I've heard and thought I may know who it is but I can't post here because I don't have first hand vetted knowledge.

If it's true, we're boned.

There's more than a few people that have heard the dressing room chatter...

 

[raideralex99]

Hopefully this is where the Jets learned something. TB was swept by Columbus after a record setting regular season then won the SC next season. I’m hoping for a similar story arc.

Funny you should mention TB was swept by Columbus. Bobrovsky was the reason why CBJ swept TB and then Florida signed him a few months later for $70 million. Many thought paying $10 million for a goalie until the age of 36 is insane ... well it worked out great for the Panthers so far.
Also Panthers picking up Forsling off the waiver wire was a great move.

I loved Maurice's post game comment after game 3 ... he said the players run the room he just shows up once in awhile.
It's too bad he never showed up once in awhile in the Jets dressing room or maybe Wheeler locked him out.

 

[Jack7222]

I think that the right guys incorporated into the lineup can help bring others into the fight

I'm disappointed as I thought we had those players. Schiefele, Lowry, Morrissey, Hellebuyck, Niederrater and Namestnikov. You'd think that would be enough - even Toffoli has shown playoff intensity.

Something is stinky in the Jets dressing room STILL. Based on things I've heard and thought I may know who it is but I can't post here because I don't have first hand vetted knowledge.

If it's true, we're boned.

Do share? I doubt anyone cares if it's vetted as long as you are clear it's not substantiated.

 

[Jet]

Do share? I doubt anyone cares if it's vetted as long as you are clear it's not substantiated.

Nope, against the rules - I try to behave haha

 

[GeorgeJETson]

 

[Jets 31]

Nope, against the rules - I try to behave haha

I hope it's not someone who's last name ends in Lee .

 

[GeorgeJETson]

I hope it's not someone who's last name ends in Lee .

Maybe we need someone whose first name is Lee?

 

[Buffdog]

Just chatting with my son about the finals and we're saying how hard it is to win the cup. Edmonton has the best player on the planet and another in the top 10 in Drai and they won't be able to pull it off

 

[jungles]

Nope, against the rules - I try to behave haha

Rumour I heard is that this dressing room presence is what caused Maurice to throw up his hands and walk away. But I can't vouch for the credibility at all.

 

[Weezeric]

Rumour I heard is that this dressing room presence is what caused Maurice to throw up his hands and walk away. But I can't vouch for the credibility at all.

The one thing I know about rumors is that they’re always true.

 

[BobTheSolarsystem]

The one thing I know about rumors is that they’re always true.

I remember when I heard the rumor that shenkarow had already sold the Jets before the save the Jets campaign started and that all that merch fans sold to help the team was a fkn waste of time

 

[Cnile]

The one thing I know about rumors is that they’re always true.

 

[Board Bard]

Something is stinky in the Jets dressing room STILL. Based on things I've heard and thought I may know who it is but I can't post here because I don't have first hand vetted knowledge.

If it's true, we're boned.

There are three players on the Jets whose contracts are of a long enough term and whose play has sufficient impact to say "we're boned" if they're stinking up the locker room or otherwise failing to meet expectations -- Scheifele, Hellebuyck and Morrissey. Morrissey doesn't seem like he has a bloated ego, and he's been by and large improving the past few years thanks in part to his willingness to be coached. Hellebuyck does have a bloated ego, but he's a goalie so you can expect him to act oddly; plus his game hasn't fallen off really at any point in his career (well, except for that playoff thing). As for Scheifele, bloated is probably too small a word for his ego. Count the times he says "I" and "me" in his interviews. On the power play he stands around killing time but still apparently gets to decide where he plays. At even strength he's in a coma half the time yet considers himself such an offensive whiz that he entitles himself to regularly extend shifts and play whatever type of game he wants. Half the Jets fans I know think the team should have cut bait with Scheifele instead of signing him again, taken their lumps with a reset and have at least a fighting chance of escaping the ceiling of mediocrity they have now contracted themselves to; the other half don't necessarily disagree with that opinion but are still undecided. If you came out and identified Scheifele as the Jet you're talking about, I doubt you'd surprise anyone. Not identifying him isn't lowering the number of people who thought "Scheifele" as soon as they read your post.