When will the Jets next make the playoffs?

[Duke749]

With how bad the west is looking right now. Wouldn't surprise me at all if we make it in as a WC team.

Yeh a bunch of East teams got better while Chicago decided to get far worse. Flames aren’t as good either.

Oilers shouldn’t see much change in the regular season. Probably improvement with Campbell.

No idea how Vegas will play out. They need to be healthy first and foremost.

Wild should be due for some regression IMO. Fluery is very much hit and miss at times and he keeps getting older.

 

[AnonoJet]

Is there any reason to believe that the team is actually better this year? Copp gone. Stasny gone. Replaced by what? PLD apparently wants out. What does that do to his play? Same crowd responsible for the locker room issues like Schiefle still around. And so on.

Chevy has done absolutely nothing with the on-ice talent to address the failure that was last year. In fact, he has let the situation regress. He talks a good game, but seems frozen in his actions.

I have severe apathy for this team, given the lack of any material action to improve over last year. If they made the playoffs, they would get absolutely destroyed in the first round. Last season was the most disappointing one for me ever. And the team has regressed. In what world is this acceptable?

 

[Daximus]

Yeh a bunch of East teams got better while Chicago decided to get far worse. Flames aren’t as good either.

Oilers shouldn’t see much change in the regular season. Probably improvement with Campbell.

No idea how Vegas will play out. They need to be healthy first and foremost.

Wild should be due for some regression IMO. Fluery is very much hit and miss at times and he keeps getting older.

Yeah plus the wild haven't sorted out their Kaprizov problem and if he can't play they will be worse. Dallas will regress a bit I think. Nashville has good defence but they aren't that much better than us as they lack scoring. Arizona and Chicago are going full tank.

 

[Jimmyjets]

We're going to make the playoffs this year. New coach with new ideas will lead to more wins with the same group.

Last year we were a playoff team too if we stuck with our 3 forwards in overtime approach from 2 years ago before losing 9 OT games to go back to it. we were 3-10 in extra time at one point. If it's supposed to be a coin flip that is 4 extra points right there.

We wouldn't have won them all but we missed the playoffs by 8 points with 11 OT losses and a -5 goal differential after being completely snakebitten scoring wise.

The doom and gloom is I suppose understandable because woulda, coulda, shoulda but Dallas won so many games by the skin of their teeth down the stretch last year which is why they made the playoffs with a -8 goal differential.

We finish ahead of the Stars, Preds and Canucks and make the playoffs.

 

[sipowicz]

With how bad the west is looking right now. Wouldn't surprise me at all if we make it in as a WC team.

Wishful thinking but 22-23 and playoffs for the Winnipeg Jets is a long shot

 

[Daximus]

Wishful thinking but 22-23 and playoffs for the Winnipeg Jets is a long shot

The west is a joke right now. Outside of Colorado not one of these teams would make the playoffs in the east for sure. Oilers might but it would be far from a guarantee.

 

[cbcwpg]

Hard to say. The only real thing the Jets have going for them is that two of the teams in their division are actively trying to lose, so that leaves just 6 teams in the Central trying to make the playoffs.

Colorado, Minnesota, and St. Louis are probably locks again, so that leaves just the wild card spots being fought over by Winnipeg, Nashville, Dallas.

We have 4 teams in the Pacific ( Seattle, Anaheim, San Jose, Vancouver ) that the Jets should be better than, but that still leaves 4 teams ( Vegas, LA, Calgary, Edmonton ) in the playoff hunt.

So the only way we are making the playoffs is sneaking into a wild card spot. A race to the finish line again.

 

[WaveRaven]

We'll get the coach bump for 10-20 games. It's the only reason I think they squeeze in.

They are in a real pickle coming up next season with all the guys a year from UFA. They need commitments next year or God help us.

 

[DeepFrickinValue]

Is there any reason to believe that the team is actually better this year? Copp gone. Stasny gone. Replaced by what? PLD apparently wants out. What does that do to his play? Same crowd responsible for the locker room issues like Schiefle still around. And so on.

Chevy has done absolutely nothing with the on-ice talent to address the failure that was last year. In fact, he has let the situation regress. He talks a good game, but seems frozen in his actions.

I have severe apathy for this team, given the lack of any material action to improve over last year. If they made the playoffs, they would get absolutely destroyed in the first round. Last season was the most disappointing one for me ever. And the team has regressed. In what world is this acceptable?

Coaching was replaced which may be biggest change?

 

[Joe Hallenback]

Its wide open. Some return to system defense, a normal Helly, better special teams and a little bit more scoring out of the bottom 6 should see us easily in the playoffs

 

[AnonoJet]

Coaching was replaced which may be biggest change?

I know. That is why I referred to on-ice. With the on-ice talent going backwards, and the apparent leadership/locker room issues ignored, I don’t believe the coaching change will help much.

 

[DRW204]

Coaching was replaced which may be biggest change?

Agreed. I think they're banking on Bowness turning the roster around making this a cup contending team. they will probably have a nhl depth fwd or D signing or PTO, but more or less this will be key cogs of the team will be the same.

 

[tbcwpg]

Better defensive play, with the same roster, should put them in competition for 3rd in the Central or the WC spots.

I think Colorado is an obvious 1st, St. Louis to me looks good for 2nd, and then it's wide open. For all the criticism people are giving the Jets, the other teams in the Central have their own problems - the Wild have $12m in dead cap, their superstar is stuck overseas and Fleury looked bad for large parts of last year. Dallas is a one line team and without a Bowness structure they might get blown out in games, Nashville has one guy who can score. Chicago and Arizona are in active tank mode.

 

[DeepFrickinValue]

Better defensive play, with the same roster, should put them in competition for 3rd in the Central or the WC spots.

I think Colorado is an obvious 1st, St. Louis to me looks good for 2nd, and then it's wide open. For all the criticism people are giving the Jets, the other teams in the Central have their own problems - the Wild have $12m in dead cap, their superstar is stuck overseas and Fleury looked bad for large parts of last year. Dallas is a one line team and without a Bowness structure they might get blown out in games, Nashville has one guy who can score. Chicago and Arizona are in active tank mode.

West is looking pretty weak this year. Really transfer of power to the east.

Calgary will be interesting. Perhaps a burr under their saddle (extra stampede) this year. But lots of issues there.

Jets probably squeak in. That said it is literally a make or break year.

 

[Teemusalami204]

2025 is my optimistic guess if they start rebuilding now

That’s why I picked 2028.. they will run with what we have next 2 seasons and miss the playoffs and then rebuild

 

[surixon]

I'm going this year. This team still has the goaltending and finishing to get in. If our team play improves and Chevy can get some forward depth then I see us as having a real good shot at it.

Everything went wrong last year and we still weren't that far out.

 

[Mortimer Snerd]

i can't see us making it next year, running out this same motley crew.

But it isn't the same motley crew. Copp, Stastny and Comrie gone. Everyone else a year older, notably Wheeler.

 

[surixon]

But it isn't the same motley crew. Copp, Stastny and Comrie gone. Everyone else a year older, notably Wheeler.

That also applies to the top prospects who are also another year older and more experienced. Guess we will have to see if they are able to make a major impact.

 

[nobody imp0rtant]

That also applies to the top prospects who are also another year older and more experienced. Guess we will have to see if they are able to make a major impact.

Well, they're a year older, anyway. Maurice made sure they didn't get much experience.

 

[PhilJets]

Helly goes god mode.

Jets gets in easily

 

[DeepFrickinValue]

Helly goes god mode.

Jets gets in easily

Combined with boring Bowness this may be ithe answer.

 

[Eyeseeing]

Helly goes god mode.

Jets gets in easily

Helle gets injured…..

 

[DeepFrickinValue]

Helle gets injured…..

Rittich wins the Conn Smythe.

 

[ERYX]

Gonna barely miss this year 22-23, do nothing again next offseason, completely bottom out with Wheeler/Hellebuyck/Scheifele/Dubois all packing their bags in their final years in the 23-24 season and then take a year to build with a new coach and half new roster in 24-25 followed by just making it back into the playoffs in 25-26 lead by Perfetti, Lucius, a 22 year old McGroarty and a 30 year old vet Nik Ehlers.

By then young Rutger should be a combat model; optimum self-sufficiency. Probably the leader (captain).

 

[rkp]

i predict helly has an off season...he looked burnt out in the last few games of last season, and after taking all the shots he has faced the past number of seasons, it ll add up to a below average year