Player Discussion Jimmy Hayes II

[JCRO]

jimmy's best game of the year tonight.

 

[catsmasher]

He looked better versus the ducks. Same production in less time on ice. Less turnovers and stupid penalties.

This is definitely a step in the right direction.

 

[Fenway]

Felger really went nuts about Hayes on Thursday

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/12/...s-really-have-no-one-better-than-jimmy-hayes/

Let’s speak about Hayes for a second, shall we? I’m not blaming Jimmy Hayes for this. It’s gotten to the point where I feel bad for the guy. I do. It’s not happening. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a run like this for a player – to call it a “run†is to imply that he’s better than this, and I don’t know that he is.

He was zeroes across the board again last night. Did you know that he has one goal, no assists in his last 41 games? That is exactly a half-season. Forty-one games, one point, and he’s a minus-13. … So this is a statement that’s not about Jimmy Hayes, but it’s really about the organization.

You’re telling me that you have no one in Providence – no one! – who, for eight minutes a night, you could throw out there and maybe have it bounce off his ass for a secondary assist. Maybe not even that, but the kid’s 21 and he skates well and in a couple of years you project him to be something.

Jimmy Hayes plays every night – and he also … was on the second power play! That means you and your organization sucks. That means you are so thin and so lousy at the AHL level, or at the organizational level, that not only does Jimmy Hayes play every night, he’s on your second power play.

What do they have in Providence? I don’t follow it worth a sniff, but someone show me the roster. … You mean to tell me they have no one who can shoot the puck? What do they have down there where Jimmy Hayes plays every single night, is on your second power play, and has one point in 41 games?

It speaks to the organization. You have nothing worth trying in Providence that’s better than that? He doesn’t even skate well! He doesn’t hit people.

This isn’t Hayes’ fault; I’m not piling on him. This is not about him. He is what he is. And I hope he goes somewhere and turns it around – I don’t wish ill on Jimmy Hayes. This speaks to the organization. You have nothing worth trying other than that? That is so bad.

 

[BklyNBruiN]

Felger really went nuts about Hayes on Thursday

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/12/...s-really-have-no-one-better-than-jimmy-hayes/

He is rite on.. Rite on!

 

[Fenway]

He is rite on.. Rite on!

I saw a friend who is a Rangers scout after the game and this is what he said about Jimmy Hayes.

Jimmy's father somehow thinks that if he was traded to New York things would get better. The truth is if the Rangers wound up with him he would not play in New York or Hartford but in Greenville, South Carolina.

OUCH

 

[Southiechickie]

I saw a friend who is a Rangers scout after the game and this is what he said about Jimmy Hayes.



OUCH

Know the family, they blame everyone but the fact that Jimmy isn't that skilled. He complained all summer that he hated playing here and that the media was too hard on him. He def needs a change of scenery and to start hanging out with a more respected crowd!!!

 

[chizzler]

Know the family, they blame everyone but the fact that Jimmy isn't that skilled. He complained all summer that he hated playing here and that the media was too hard on him. He def needs a change of scenery and to start hanging out with a more respected crowd!!!

The Hayes family, Jimmy included, can't be that stupid. They should be respectful to the organization for paying his son That salary for what he brings in the ice. I wish someone would tell them what Fenway told us. How much can the fan base take? I personally think the Bruins are dealing with a PR issue with him. They have local prospects. What else can it be? He's ready to bust out? Lol. The media was great to him last year. Don't know where that comes from. Bogus. Blame everyone but yourself.

 

[Fenian24]

Know the family, they blame everyone but the fact that Jimmy isn't that skilled. He complained all summer that he hated playing here and that the media was too hard on him. He def needs a change of scenery and to start hanging out with a more respected crowd!!!

If this is true they sound more like entitled Weston residents than Dorchester. Could also just be the nightmare hockey parents we all hear about/have seen that think their kid is a superstar even though he sucks and should be getting special treatment.

Lil Jimmy has long worn out his welcome and, as much as I usually disagree with the Felger part of the misery duo, he is correct in his statement on Hayes, this is no longer the players fault, he sucks and is barely an AHL level player, this is now on management to get rid of him, trade him for nothing and retain salary, send him to Providence and hope he doesn't report and you save cap money, send him down and eat the contract, do whatever it takes to get him off this team.

 

[Blowfish]

Keeping him has to be PR homeboy NCAA fear thing. Good thing Vatrano squashes that crap. Hayes needs to go and fast. Holding back other much more deserving call ups.

A guy like khoko must be pissed. Totally unfair player treatment.

 

[Gee Wally]

Keeping him has to be PR homeboy NCAA feer thing. Good thing Vatrano squashes that crap. Hayes needs to go and fast. Holding back other much more deserving call ups.

PR for who?
the whole fan base in town knows that Hayes stinks.
NCAA doesn't mean diddley squat.

 

[remer]

Time to put Hayes and Khudobin on waivers. Give them some time in the AHL and see if they can redeem themselves. The Bruins would be lucky if anyone would pick them up and if they did, bonus. But if nothing else, give them some time to gain confidence.

 

[ksp1957]

Maybe he'll pull a John Scott and make the all-star team

 

[DominicT]

I've been uncharacteristically quiet about Hayes.

So, I will start, and end it with this

 

[whatsbruin]

If they can get the Rangers to take him, or any team for that matter, for anything
it would be amazing.

 

[JOKER 192]

The Hayes family can blame the media all they want but even up here in Canada where we are removed from Boston media, we can see that your boy sucks.

Only one point in 41 games is hard to do even for a fourth liner. It takes a special kind of suck to accomplish these type of stats. We are talking John Scott numbers here, and everybody knows John didn't play because of his hockey skills but at least he brought something. Jimmy Hayes brings nothing but a black hole.

 

[Fenway]

PR for who?
the whole fan base in town knows that Hayes stinks.
NCAA doesn't mean diddley squat.

I think our one hope for Hayes is that Dale Talon will take him back in Florida.

Joel Quenneville saw no future with Hayes 3 years ago and told Bowman to get rid of him and somehow he was able to get Kris Versteeg back from Talon when he was traded to Florida.

Everybody likes Jimmy and we all wanted this to work but its not going to happen here.

 

[JRull86]

I saw a friend who is a Rangers scout after the game and this is what he said about Jimmy Hayes.



OUCH

Daddy's delusional if he thinks that.

Fact is, Hayes just isn't a NHL caliber player. By all accounts he's a good dude, and it's a bummer to see someone, especially a local kid, struggle so much.

He's kidding himself if he thinks he'd be granted the same opportunity on literally any other franchise with the way he's playing though.

 

[Absurdity]

It sounds a lot like the Hayes family believes it's the Bruins fault Hayes, who had 29pts last season, isn't producing. If the player believes that too rather than trying to improve himself, he's a lost cause.

 

[JRull86]

It sounds a lot like the Hayes family believes it's the Bruins fault Hayes, who had 29pts last season, isn't producing. If the player believes that too rather than trying to improve himself, he's a lost cause.

Well rmember the stories that came out regarding the family poison pilling Vesey, etc.

 

[Dr Hook]

It sounds a lot like the Hayes family believes it's the Bruins fault Hayes, who had 29pts last season, isn't producing. If the player believes that too rather than trying to improve himself, he's a lost cause.

And if they believe that I have a bridge to see them too . . .

I am sure there are other examples, but I cant think of one right off where a player got so much time to prove he is better than he's playing and delivered so much of nothing. If anything, the team has been more patient and encouraging with Hayes than probably most, if not all of us, think they should have been.

There was time when he was getting 11-15 minutes a night, he's been used on the PP, if ever someone had a sustained opportunity to produce, it's been Jimmy Hayes.

 

[Over the volcano]

Providence is a great city and close by too.

 

[Fenway]

Daddy's delusional if he thinks that.

Fact is, Hayes just isn't a NHL caliber player. By all accounts he's a good dude, and it's a bummer to see someone, especially a local kid, struggle so much.

He's kidding himself if he thinks he'd be granted the same opportunity on literally any other franchise with the way he's playing though.

Some college players can not make the transition to the pro game and playing twice as many games in a season and I think Jimmy is in that category.

Hayes needs a taste of the real AHL, not the western version he experienced in Rockford. The western AHL teams fly to many games as buses are not feasible but in the east with the exception of Newfoundland trips you travel mostly by bus.

His father must be hearing it from his pals at the Eire Pub in Dorchester and seething.

In Chicago, Hayes is remembered for all but ending the Hawks 2012 season with a really bad penalty in an elimination game at home.

Chicago's Jimmy Hayes was given a game misconduct and a 5-minute boarding penalty when he slammed Phoenix's Michal Rozsival from behind and drove him face first into the glass. Rozsival stayed down on the ice for about a minute and then skated off with some assistance at 8:47 of the third.

http://www.espn.com/nhl/recap?gameId=400259115

 

[Fenway]

http://www.bostonsportsdesk.com/bruins-roster-reworking-should-begin-by-releasing-jimmy-hayes/

OUCH

Finally, after what seemed like an eternity of ineffectiveness from Dorchester’s own Jimmy Hayes, Bruins head coach Claude Julien actually sat the useless winger in the press box for Thursday night’s loss against the Anaheim Ducks. The amount of rope that has been given to a guy who has recorded exactly one point since last February – and was given regular power play minutes for some inexplicable reason – was inordinate, and it should now be used to tie down his gear to the top of his SUV, after general manager Don Sweeney sends him packing.

It is time the Bruins brass faces the facts; Hayes has been one of the biggest mistakes the current regime has made – unless, as you should, want to hang the Tyler Seguin for three pennies on a dollar deal to Dallas, around team president Cam Neely’s neck – and the franchise’s worst faux pax since they introduced those goofy Honey Dew bear third jerseys in the mid-1990’s.

This just in, you got hosed in the Reilly Smith to the Florida Panthers for Hayes deal a couple of years ago Don, and Smith is just a JAG. The only benefit that Hayes has brought to the Bruins is that he can help players new to the team navigate the twisted streets of Boston. Other than that, the hometown boy has been a bust, and has brought zip, zero, nada, bupkis to the Black and Gold.

Not even F. Lee Bailey – when he had his fastball decades ago – could concoct a case for keeping Hayes on the roster any longer. It is time for Sweeney to recognize that he made yet another mistake, and put the waste of a winger on waivers. If he is lucky, some general manager might be taking advantage of the fact that marijuana has now been legalized in many states, and takes a flier on his failure. If not, send him to Providence when he clears; heck, he could even commute back and forth from Dot down 95 if he wanted to.

 

[Era of Sanity]

watching Jimmy Hayes attempt to play hockey at this point is depressing.

I am actually beyond the frustration of getting fleeced on the trade, at least as far as Hayes is concerned. Maybe I am a softie, I actually feel sorry for him at this point they should just waive him and be done with it. Buy him out in the offseason, and then maybe some team will give him a shot for cheap or a 2-way but the guy has to get out of Boston.

 

[VanIsle]

I don't care about the trade, I just don't get why he is still in the lineup.

It is like holding onto an old dog that is blind and deaf, eventually it is time to move on instead of holding onto false hope that he will be like he was back in the day.