I thought Wagner played a solid straightforward game at the World Juniors and was also also great on his U20 team. His SHL numbers look concerning but in reality he didn't get much or sometimes any ice time at all when he dressed.
I really hope you are right. I’m pretty guarded right now and will play a wait and see how this offseason plays out.
Amenity rich locations like Florida will always have a comparative advantage.
I dunno...that 14-15 core was pretty young and deep. Skill players 30 or younger were Enstrom, Buff, Ladd, Wheeler, Little, Frolik, Perreault, Schiefele and Trouba. The only big drawback was goaltending...which was fixed by Hellebuyck. Plus between 14-15 and 17-18 the Jets added Ehlers, Connor and Laine to the skilled player camp, and Lowry, Copp, Tanev and Armia for depth (although they lost Ladd and Frolik).
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I agree with this. I think our next peak will be when Perfetti, Morrissey and Samberg are the vets, we have Lambert, Lucius, McGroarty and Salomonsson in their primes and we have a few high end lottery pieces about to enter their own primes. These would be in addition to the mid to high level prospects we get back for PLD, Scheifele and Helley (fingers crossed) this summer and Ehlers and Connor a couple years after that. That's the only sensible timeline to get back to contention that I can imagine.
Agreed. The only hope I see for us to bite the bullet and do an actual rebuild. Move the pending UFAs for picks and prospects and let the team bottom out to get some elite top 5 picks. People will have to accept that it will be painful and the best possible hope to get back to contention would be 5-7 years away. If it’s time to move on from the current core let’s at least try and do it right.
No hurricanes where you have to board up and evacuate your home for a few days. I will have to get back to you when I can think of something else.
Agreed you get the extra picks and prospects with your pending UFAs and then add a couple of elite top 5 picks with a bottom out. That in addition to our current crop of prospects at least gives us a chance to build back a contender.
“Winnipeg man” is a growing field.
If we don't bottom out, then Chevy absolutely has to find quantity for quality trades and will need some strong drafts to attain the pieces to make that work. I'm thinking like the ROR to St Louis or Eichel to VGK trades. It's not often you have an elite center signed long term with no trade protection but they are out there. (Side note: how did Buffalo bungle that center depth?).
Yeah, we are accumulating some good future middle six depth. Maybe even a top liner or two.
Gonna actually agree.Since no one wants to be here, we don't have crowds?
Strange game. Blazers dominated a lot of the game. Zellweger was dynamic, but he's high risk along with high reward. The Blazers couldn't clamp down on a 4-1 lead.
I think Chevy has left it too long to get young top line players back. Our pending UFAs will likely bring back a Trouba type return. A mid round pick and a prospect or young player that the other team doesn’t consider part of their core. Better that than aging players on bad contracts.
