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Chris Thorburn Appreciation Thread

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Bastage said:
I will miss your contributions a great deal. You may be the smartest poster on this forum.
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Smartest Garret on this forum maybe........I kid......

While we have had our differences, I appreciated, and will miss, his in-depth analyses and opening my eyes to advance stats.
 
garret9 said:
No more team specific stuff, so no more Jets Nations or that type.

Will still be part of Hockey-Graphs.
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Cool...thanks for your well informed posts
and congrats on your newest venture. :handclap:

Chris look after your family & your health ...work the front office.
Hope you stay in our community
 
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Liked the person as well as the heart and effort he displayed but I don't want him brought back as he can't keep up anymore. Nor do I want Maurice to be given the option to dress him.

If he wants to stick around in a development or other front office role is welcome that.
 
I find it highly ironic that the Chris Thorburn Appreciation Thread has turned into the Garret Hohl Appreciation Thread. :laugh:

Congrats again, Garret!
 
I hope that Chris does not get resigned anywhere but the Moose, Jets front office or some other team. He is a very hard worker and pretty much gave everything he had every shift. Unfortunately his skill set is not NHL level anymore and the Jets need to make room for someone else. I wish him all the best and hope that some of his non-hockey skills rubbed off on some of the others in that dressing room.
 
SoCalJetsFan said:
I hope that Chris does not get resigned anywhere but the Moose, Jets front office or some other team. He is a very hard worker and pretty much gave everything he had every shift. Unfortunately his skill set is not NHL level anymore and the Jets need to make room for someone else. I wish him all the best and hope that some of his non-hockey skills rubbed off on some of the others in that dressing room.
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re-sign.
not resign.
we want him to resign, not re-sign.

and i want Chris to work in the front office so i can see him with zero beard and short hair.
 
If he signed a 2 way, league min, with true intent of having him play for the Moose, work with the prospects and move towards a job with player development in a couple of years, would anyone take issue with that?
 
MrBoJangelz71 said:
If he signed a 2 way, league min, with true intent of having him play for the Moose, work with the prospects and move towards a job with player development in a couple of years, would anyone take issue with that?
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Maybe just sign him to an AHL deal then? Takes away all doubt and more importantly takes away any chance of Mo pushing for a call up.
 
MrBoJangelz71 said:
If he signed a 2 way, league min, with true intent of having him play for the Moose, work with the prospects and move towards a job with player development in a couple of years, would anyone take issue with that?
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Yep. I'd have an issue. Don't trust our management group/coaches to not use him if the options there.

AHL only or front office for me.
 
MrBoJangelz71 said:
If he signed a 2 way, league min, with true intent of having him play for the Moose, work with the prospects and move towards a job with player development in a couple of years, would anyone take issue with that?
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I think that would be ideal. I really like the guy on a personal level. I don't think he is an amazing hockey player but I also don't think he as bad as most people on here make him out to be. That be said, he should have less than 10 games left in a Jets jersey with the amount of young kids in the pipline.
 
http://www.thehockeynews.com/news/a...e-on-a-1-million-salary-not-as-much-you-think

Here's an article. If you made a $1 million dollar salary, you'd be left with about $240k after food, clothing, housing expenses, car and entertainment has been paid for. After. That is still a big chunk of money.

And let's not forget that in addition, the players get a good portion of money in escrow back unless the league revenues tank.
 
Grind said:
Yep. I'd have an issue. Don't trust our management group/coaches to not use him if the options there.

AHL only or front office for me.
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Agree -- theres just no way he'd stay in the AHL. As soon as a rookie faltered or a lack of team sandpaper was perceived, CT would be back in the bigs, taking punches and screwing up scoring chances. CT to PoMo is like nicotine to a heavy smoker, and removing the temptation is the first step towards recovery and a competitive 4th line.
 
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JetsUK said:
Agree -- theres just no way he'd stay in the AHL. As soon as a rookie faltered or a lack of team sandpaper was perceived, CT would be back in the bigs, taking punches and screwing up scoring chances. CT to PoMo is like nicotine to a heavy smoker, and removing the temptation is the first step towards recovery and a competitive 4th line.
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Except we know that Maurice will always have a Thorburn. A nose by any other name, as they say. :laugh:
 
Turbofan said:
http://www.thehockeynews.com/news/a...e-on-a-1-million-salary-not-as-much-you-think

Here's an article. If you made a $1 million dollar salary, you'd be left with about $240k after food, clothing, housing expenses, car and entertainment has been paid for. After. That is still a big chunk of money.

And let's not forget that in addition, the players get a good portion of money in escrow back unless the league revenues tank.
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how is this even discussion?
talking about the amount of money a player has AFTER they (over)spend on lifestyle? lol
 
Thorbz career earnings are around $9M USD. That's about equivalent to what an average doctor (GP, family practice) would make over a 35 year career here.
 
nobody important said:
Except we know that Maurice will always have a Thorburn. A nose by any other name, as they say. :laugh:
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Very true. And a nose is a nose is a nose. So if they find a Thorburn who's an improvement on Thorburn, he'll turn out to be Thorburn, having really just been Thorburn all along.

Being a GM is hard.
 
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