Ducky

the idea of 3 on 3 was to stay away from shootouts so I really don't think they are going to change the penalty to 1 minute.

I don't like Beaulieu at all but maybe he will fill in for Morrow (another horrible D man) next year in the pressbox. JMo -Trouba Niku or Chiarot -Buff Kuli -Myers would be our healthy D corps this year.

Let Mittlestadt make his mistakes and learn as a 2C and when you guys are contending, he'll be ready. He's probably going to be a high level 2C or low level 1C.

-42C or -43.6F with the wind here tonight and everyone around here is getting pretty sick of the winter. I am getting into a cab for the airport at 4:45 tomorrow morning and heading to Los Cabos for 13 days of drinking, fishing, birding, snorkeling and eating...preferably in that order. Supposed to be around 81F for the whole time we are there. Fishing isn't supposed to be the greatest at this time of year but it's supposed to be picking up the last two weeks. I'll be watching the Jets from a rooftop bar tomorrow evening!!! Supposed to be -8C or 17.6F when we get back but they have trouble predicting 3 days in advance let alone 14 days.

Patience. You're developing one right now. That 2C would cost you a 1st plus??? In 3 or so years that 1st plus ??? could be integral parts of the team. No need to trade away futures for a 2C when you have one on the wasy shortly.

Beauliey and Kisilevich (sp) are depth moves. It thought Chevy would pick up a left D man seeing as JMo went down yesterday...Our healthy LHD are Kulilov, Niku, Chiarot..... We are also missing Buff for a few weeks yet.

Myers played all 82 games last year. Myers 104 points in 250 games. Bogo 58 points 213 games. What surprised me when looking up these stats is that Myers only played 11 games in 2016-2017 and still played more games than Bogo!

Morrissey went down yesterday and I am wondering if Chevy is looking for a D man.

I do too. A 1st and someone like Suess would have seemed more in line but I guess Chevy wanted him before someone else got him. We gave up a 1st and Foley plus a 4th for Stastny last season... This move makes the Jets pretty big down the center line.

I like that Chevy sold high on Lemmy. I didn't like his character...never did. Sens wanted way too much for rental Stone.

Should be 4th in 2022.

Lemieux, 2019 1st and 2020 4th for Hayes.

Maybe Malkin is getting back some of what he dishes out? He's a dirty player that gets away with it because Syndy and Pitt...

I see nothing wrong with Malkin getting high-sticked...

I look at him and see someone that needs time on the farm.

Some rumblings about Chevy going hard after Stone and someone else from the Sens... I hope he isn't thinking of giving up Roslovic or Samberg...

You definitely can't leave these two teams out when talking about the playoffs. If St. Louis continues their play of late, they will be a contender as well. I think TB takes the cup this year. They beat the Jets or the Preds in 6. Having said that, if a team gets a hot streak from a goalie (Price?), they could surprise. edit ... there are definitely flaws in how the playoffs work as well but I don't see any changes coming soon.

Just be glad Kane isn't still around to "mentor" the youngsters.

Have you watched much of Laine this year?

I agree with most of this but remember, Scheif got market value at the time the contract was signed. MacKinnon signed shortly after and got 6.3m per year. Both deals look like steals today.

and easy to play against...lots of Jets fans are calling for him to be sent down a line or two once Ehlers is back. I mean, he still has 27? goals but he had 25 at the beginning of December I think! I am guessing he has never had a slump, especially this big of one, in his career. Don't forget, he started out as a goalie. Maurice spoke about it in a media scrum this past week and said he has to work himself out of it and this is a player developing. Later on in his career he will be able to remember about this slump and draw from it. This is not a player you give up on. It is easy to get angry at him but you have to remember he is 20 years old. Not many players have scored 105 goals by that age. His November was unbelievable. If I'm not mistaken, he won player of the month. His confidence is shot and he has been taken off of the 1PP. Not sure what will happen but he has to figure it out. The post-season isn't that far off and we need him. Oh yeah, there's the little matter of him being on the last year of his ELC. I heard a rumor that he is asking for 8 x 10.5 and Chevy offered 3 x 6m. I hate both offers. I'd give him a one year 6m or no more than 8 x 8.25. That's exactly how much Wheeler makes a year...is he better than Wheeler? Does he drive a line? Scheif makes 6.125m a year...is he better than Scheif? If he wants 10.5m a year, he'd better bring a better compete level and up his game. I didn't see him much in the third...didn't miss him. Scheif, Wheeler and KC didn't have a strong game but they upped their compete in the third period. Laine needs to learn how to do that. Also, if you are a scorer and aren't scoring, you'd better bring something else to the party and that doesn't include losing 95% of the puck battles. End of rant.

Good game guys! I thought both goalies played really well. Nothing wrong with Dahlin that a couple of years worth of experience won't fix. If you're interested, maybe we can fabricate an off-season trade involving Trouba and Dahlin?

Scored 18 I think in Nov. and 2 since...looks like he wants to be elsewhere...(playing fortnite?)

Since November...useless almost.

He has applied for and was granted to use a longer stick than allowed.