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Post-Game Talk: Jets 4 - Stars 1

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Im not defending either station, but i do watch a lot of TSN and SN's highlight shows and the "talk shows" like Real Kyper and Bourne and they all give quite a bit of love and respect to the Jets now. Their mandate is always going to be Leafs and Oilers first because that's where the ratings are. But I don't sense any huge anti-Jets agenda and this "they despise Winnipeg" narrative is largely false now. The one that i felt really had sour grapes and some weird anti-Jets agenda was PJ Stock, but he's long gone. Maybe Gary Galley also but even he's been slurping the Jets lately.

I feel people are maybe confusing the sports book odds with the media, possibly because they show the odds all the time during broadcasts and they dont have the Jets as overwhelming favorites. But they aren't making the odds, just presenting what the bookies have them at.
 
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Howard Chuck said:
This was the worst shot clock keeper I’ve ever seen. We had many more shots than indicated. I was actually making fun of it last night. Regardless we had our A everything game going!
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Thought that was just me counting shots that didn't actually get through or missed the net by an inch.
 
Thechozen1 said:
We all know the HART will go to MacKinnon or Draisaitl and I am perfectly fine with that.

Give Helle the CONN SMYTHE in a winning effort. That’s what I’m talking about.
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The Jets will need to go on a long playoff run to prove to the national media that they are legit, and not just a regular season success. If they do that, and continue to add to their group, they will get much move love from pundits, media and reporters outside of Winnipeg.

If the Flames had the same MO as the Jets, great regular season but two quick playoff exits, us Winnipeggers would also look at the Flames as a "can't get it done in the playoffs" team. And I'm not wasting my time an effort supporting them until they show me something consistently. It's the same as how I think of the Bruins recently but before this year. Can have the best regular season ever but show me you can beat someone other than the Leafs in the playoffs.

Jets make it to the finals, we'll get plenty of love this playoff and next year if they have another strong regular season.

Oilers get a lot of slack because they have the two best players I the world and made it to game 7 of the Finals last year even though they look like they can't beat anyone right now with no desperation or intensity to their game. But that playoff success is what reporters and other media remember and has them as cup favorites for many still.

Imagine if the Jets actually win a cup...
 
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johnnyonthspot said:
The story about the Jets win on teh TSN website was about 2/3rd's of the way down. It was after curling and there were at least 6 or 7 Leafs or leaf related stories before it.
I agree if the Leafs were in the Jets position there would be 8 to 10 stories dedicated just to the game and another 5 to discuss how amazing it is for Canada a the yare doing so well.
It is very annoying but the Torontocentric bias will, unfortunately, never stop given the size of the Province and the vast number of Leaf fans across Canada. The jets could win the cup and a leafs story about Mitch Marner having a hang nail or Nylander deciding to wear a shirt for an interview would likely be the lead story.
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honestly surprised at how much some care about the Jets making headlines or not. 1st like @raideralex99 mentioned, the big markets dominate headlines on average through the year. turn on ESPN during NFL season, Dallas is a large relevant topic regardless of how good or bad they are. Lakers (Lebron) in NBA. It's same shit in the NHL with Toronto. Not sure why this is a yearly surprise to some. WPG is small fry compared to TOR, NY, MTL it is what it is. $$$ talks.

Secondly, this team IMO is better when the spot light is not on them and they have a bit of that (under)dog in them. Not #1 in the "Power Rankings," good. use that for motivation to fuel you. Not picked to be a cup favorite? good, use that as whiteboard material to prove ppl wrong.

Thirdly, posters on here just complain and complain when popular media tries to talk Jets b/c they don't follow them every day & the Jets barely leak news and whatnot.... there's plenty of good lesser-known or non-traditional TV media that cover the Jets, support them.
 
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PhilJets said:
Its crazy good what the Jets are doing now ( I’m appreciating it more and more )

Just got amazed the Montreal Canadiens goal differential.
How do you beat that team 😅😊
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My answer is, as always: because the Habs rigged the 1967 expansion. But also, Sam Pollock was the smartest GM in the league...and there were some real dummies around.
 
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Gm0ney said:
My answer is, as always: because the Habs rigged the 1967 expansion. But also, Sam Pollock was the smartest GM in the league...and there were some real dummies around.
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That team only had about three or four players that weren't born in Canada.
 
Jaytee said:
It's also a historic thing, this Sportsnet antipathy towards the Jets, I think.

If you remember when the team came back in 2011, their games were broadcast almost exclusively on TSN; they even had a TSN Jets station that cable subscribers could pay extra to get. Every other Canadian team had their games carried on regional Sportsnet stations, so right off the bat, Sportsnet hated the Jets.

It's never got any better, and it probably never will.
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I don't think so. Some teams were on SN, some were on TSN. The TSN Jets stattion was just about the way it was done at the time. Its not like there was a bidding war for Jets broadcast rights and TSN stole them from SN.

And now, TSN is just as bad as SN except that SN is terrible when broadcasting Jets national games. Every team has its regional broadcaster and its national broadcaster. I don't think SN even had the national rights when Jets came back.
 
PhilJets said:
Its crazy good what the Jets are doing now ( I’m appreciating it more and more )

Just got amazed the Montreal Canadiens goal differential.
How do you beat that team 😅😊
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6 in 5 gets 96-98 pts. We have 96 with 15 games to go. who'da thunk it?
 
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