Confirmed Signing with Link: [COL] Jack Johnson signs with the Avs (1 year, $750k)

[Rabid Ranger]

He's gonna play a lot more than people here are expecting. Seeing how they handled their D lineup in the VGK series, I can see them being stubborn with keeping the vet in the lineup.

If JJ plays well enough to stay in the lineup he likely will. If the Avs get healthy and he craps his pants then off he goes.

 

[Avaholic29]

Connor Timmons says……. “ Do you miss me yet”

Not In the slightest. Some potential on the kid but he didn’t make a difference at all.

 

[Patagonia]

Connor Timmons says……. “ Do you miss me yet”

Timmins is a RHD. AVs have Makar, EJ and Murray. Prospects Barron and Helleson.

JJ is a LHD. Toews, Girard and Byram. He’s the 4th line or injury option.

AVs will fine.

 

[Gurglesons]

Avs need someone who can approximate what EJ brings if he goes down w/ injury. JJ is nowhere near EJ’s skill level but he is big and physical. The Avs options otherwise are too green or not good enough.

JJ is awful. If he is playing I guarantee he is costing the Avs points or games in the playoffs. There is a reason this guy has played 30 playoff games and never won a series.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

He's not bad for 750k. If you were paying over 3 mill though, that'd be stupid.

 

[Avaholic29]

JJ is awful. If he is playing I guarantee he is costing the Avs points or games in the playoffs. There is a reason this guy has played 30 playoff games and never won a series.

I’d bet that his team lost the series…

 

[Bone Breaker]

the Johnson & Johnson dream became true. I can rest in peace now.
seriously, I don't wanna see it on the ice, but off the ice the Avs should capitalize on thi$.

 

[The Kingslayer]

Guys getting 750K to be the 7th dman and people are losing their minds lol. This place.

 

[NJ Fan 12]

Lol, he’s not an NHL player

And yet he's played 950 games. [MOD]

 

[sr edler]

And het he's played 950 games.

There's still a lot of nepotism and such going on in pro sports. Would Johnson really have played 82 regular season games with the 18–19 Penguins if we throw him being long time best friends with Sidney Crosby out of the equation? He played 82 games that regular season, and then 1st game of the 2019 playoffs, boom, healthy scratched. How is that even possible, a veteran defenseman in the league with 21 points in 23 playoff games to his credit thus far, playing all 82 games of the regular season, scratched for the first playoff game in favor of Erik Gudbranson or Marcus Pettersson? It's possible because he's a bad defenseman.

This same thing happened with Keith Yandle, by the way, was it last year or something? Played all regular season games with the Panthers, just to hold his silly "iron man" streak alive. Time for playoffs, boom, healthy scratched.

 

[MaKarter]

Timmins is a RHD. AVs have Makar, EJ and Murray. Prospects Barron and Helleson.

JJ is a LHD. Toews, Girard and Byram. He’s the 4th line or injury option.

AVs will fine.

Murray is a Left D.

 

[KevinFinnerty]

JJ still got it going on, sniped a beauty last preseason against the Pens!

 

[Hasbro]

There's still a lot of nepotism and such going on in pro sports.

Nepotism is if it's family. It's cronyism if it's just friends.

 

[Ararana]

He started out camp real strong but as the preseason games went on his play quality continued to drop. Ideally he's a 7th D who sits when the Avs are healthy, and as much as I don't like it I have to admit he's a better option that McDermid.

Toews - Makar
Girard - Erik Johnson
Byram - Murray
Jack Johnson
McDermid (just here to punch things in games against Vegas)

Any other 7th D they find will be the same or worse.

 

[Unspecified]

Oh joy

 

[Big McLargehuge]

And yet he's played 950 games. [MOD]

So did Craig Adams. Good luck finding someone other than Dan Bylsma who is going to say anything nice about the last ~half of those.

Johnson was completely washed before he signed in Pittsburgh and that was 3+ years ago now

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

Happy about this for two reasons.

1. JJ seems like a nice guy that was screwed out of the majority of his career earnings by his scumbag parents. Even though it’s league minimum I’m glad he gets another payday.

2. Colorado plays in the same division as Dallas (which is unfortunate as a Stars fan), but this gives the Stars a better chance at winning if he’s in the line up.

 

[Yog S'loth]

Fun Fact: Jack Johnson is the NHL career leader in individual games with a -4 rating or worse.

Also Fun Fact: I totally just made up the first fun fact but you would have believed it

 

[tucker3434]

I know he isn't good anymore but I have trouble getting worked up over a replacement level contract. Even if he is the worst player in the league, bury him, and you're only out the contract price. Not like it's my money.

 

[CamPopplestone]

Given what happened to him with his awful parents, I'm honestly always happy to see Jack manage to get a contract

 

[57special]

I would mock the Avs about this signing, but am in a precarious position with our Benn and Merrill signings. They have ranged from clumsy and mediocre to downright awful during the preseason.

 

[Jerkbait]

JJ probably scores the cup winning goal for the avs this season, may be his only playoff goal but will count !

 

[Freudian]

So many jealous posters in this thread.

 

[TheHelmet]

LOL

embarrassing
Im predicting the same outcome as Sbisa on Vegas where he turned it over twice in back to back shifts resulting in goals that had his team eliminated

 

[Russian Factor]

Let the coping begin