Confirmed with Link: Jets sign Sam Gagner 1 year / 750 K

[Huffer]

Nice move. Couldn't be cheaper, and it gives us more actual quality depth.

 

[surixon]

I think he’s going to play in our top 6

But if he is for the bottom 6 this is a great signing

He can't even crack Detroits top 6, no way is he going to crack ours.

 

[DRW204]

I think he’s going to play in our top 6

But if he is for the bottom 6 this is a great signing

I guess anything is possible.... Beaulieu went healthy scratch in Buffalo to top pair for us

All seriousness, our top-6 wings are set. Wheeler, ehlers, connor, and then likely perfetti. Unless Bowness goes vet over youngster, which I guess isn't out of the realm of possibilities based on some comments from Dallas fans, but we'll have to see.

 

[Hugh Mongusbig]

Good pro, great locker room guy and great veteran presence for the kids.
He's also a pretty good PK'er but won't bring much offense.
He's a warm body but I can think of worse ways management could blow $750K

 

[Royale With Cheese]

Cool.

A little extra offence for the bottom 6 at a great price.

 

[cbcwpg]

I'm OK with this... some depth... maybe replaces some of Statsny numbers,

 

[RetroWinnipeg]

Les Jets peuvent-ils gagner avec Gagner?

 

[cbcwpg]

 

[RustyCat]

Always liked him and glad he landed here.

 

[Weezeric]

Good pro, great locker room guy and great veteran presence for the kids.
He's also a pretty good PK'er but won't bring much offense.
He's a warm body but I can think of worse ways management could blow $750K

Won’t bring much offence? Here’s a sampling of players who played in the bottom six for the Jets last year…

Harkins, Toninato, Vesalainen, Sanford, Reichel, Brooks, Poganski, Nash

Together they played 283 games and scored 36 points.

Last year Gagner scored 31 in 81. It’s a huge step up offensively…

 

[Fatdrunk]

if he plays another 33 games with the jets, they’ll going have to buy him a silver stick

 

[rehf]

Can't complain really at all about this.

 

[SUX2BU]

Good signing

 

[DRW204]

21 5v5 pts in 829 mins, for a 1.51 pts/60. Only Players that were better on our team in scoring/TOI efficiency were top 6ers.

Good pro, great locker room guy and great veteran presence for the kids.
He's also a pretty good PK'er but won't bring much offense.
He's a warm body but I can think of worse ways management could blow $750K

Our highest paid bottom 6er made 3.25m with 20 pts. Sam gagner at 750k if he is somewhere in the 20-30 pt range is a bargain relative to the rest of the bottom 6 crew.

 

[fmrdh]

Didn't even have to pay a "Winnipeg Tax" to get him.

Good signing here IMO

 

[Inanna]

Les Jets peuvent-ils gagner avec Gagner?

C'est assez mauvais de comprendre des jeux de mots en anglais.

 

[DannyGallivan]

The bottom six was in dire need of a scoring touch. Decent move.

 

[KingBogo]

I think he’s going to play in our top 6

But if he is for the bottom 6 this is a great signing

If he does play in the top 6 it is likely for Wheeler. But, Gagner has adapted his game since his early days with Edmonton and is now more of a defense first player and PK guy.

 

[KingBogo]

Won’t bring much offence? Here’s a sampling of players who played in the bottom six for the Jets last year…

Harkins, Toninato, Vesalainen, Sanford, Reichel, Brooks, Poganski, Nash

Together they played 283 games and scored 36 points.

Last year Gagner scored 31 in 81. It’s a huge step up offensively…

He also only started 41% of his shifts in the offensive zone which makes his 31 points look even better for our bottom 6.

 

[surixon]

Perhaps this is a sign that this new coaching staff intends to do things differently in our bottom 6 this year. This isn't the type of move we would have made with Mauroce's preferred way of doing things.

 

[Imcanadianeh]

Perhaps this is a sign that this new coaching staff intends to do things differently in our bottom 6 this year. This isn't the type of move we would have made with Mauroce's preferred way of doing things.

Do people actually think Maurice turned down or told Chevy he doesn’t want better bottom six players?

The team has continued to lose its good depth players since 17-18, this is the first year the Jets actually have cap space to strengthen the bottom six.

 

[surixon]

Do people actually think Maurice turned down or told Chevy he doesn’t want better bottom six players?

The team has continued to lose its good depth players since 17-18, this is the first year the Jets actually have cap space to strengthen the bottom six.

I think Maurice preferred a specific type of depth player as he wanted his depth players to do specific things. Yes he would have wanted good players in the style template he preferred but Gagner doesn't match the straight line grinding types that Moe liked on his third and fourth lines.

It's no surprise that Florida has gone out and gotten him those types of role players since he signed on there.

I think he had a specific template that he liked and Bowness may have a different one.

 

[CorgisPer60]

Perhaps this is a sign that this new coaching staff intends to do things differently in our bottom 6 this year. This isn't the type of move we would have made with Mauroce's preferred way of doing things.

Yes and no. I think last off-season we saw what was a bit of a marital dispute between front office and coaching staff, because the types of players brought in last year weren't typically the depth signings and character that Paul Maurice wanted. This seems like a an extension of that, coupled with a 'wait and see' motif, where front office thinks coaching was largely the issue last season.

 

[Teppo Numenor]

I wonder if he will come down with myocarditis if he has a slow start to the season

 

[surixon]

Yes and no. I think last off-season we saw what was a bit of a marital dispute between front office and coaching staff, because the types of players brought in last year weren't typically the depth signings and character that Paul Maurice wanted. This seems like a an extension of that, coupled with a 'wait and see' motif, where front office thinks coaching was largely the issue last season.

That dispute started at the trade deadline the year before with the public Heinola usage spat. I don't believe Chevy and Moe were on the same page for a while prior to Moe leaving.

I would expect that Bowness wouldn't have been hired unless he was on the same page as Chevy heading into this season. So I'm optimistic we see something different.