Ducky
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Then, all of a sudden, all the players involved in the trade are playing well and everyone is happy....just in time for Christmas.
Everyone except Armia.....he was called up and hasn't seen a minute of ice time.....why do teams do that? Let him get top line minutes on the Moose if you aren't going to play himm. It's not llke your farm team is half way across the continent....bewildering.
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I'd be interested to know what everyone thinks Myers is really worth at this point
I'm hoping Hamonic... if we don't re-sign Buff, I'd keep Myers and be out of the Hamonic trade, though.
He creates a lot of offense from the back end.
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Better to have someone regular to play beside and get used to, ESPECIALLY when he hasn't played in so long. Kaner and ROR and who else?
Myers played a fairly strong game last night and has picked up his game over the last 4 or 5 somewhat. I'd still trade him for Hamonic and can't believe he isn't a Jet yet. Hamonic for Myers and a 3rd or Myers and Ladd for Hamonic and Okposo.
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Good to see Kaner and Bogo doing well to night...
Who is Bogo paired with and is Kaner playing with Eichel?
Kaner seeing some serious ice time.
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In my opinion, Kaner should be played with the best passing center on the team.
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Ya, Hellebuck has looked strong against opponents he has faced so far but they weren't playing NHL hockey.
If Hutch re-signs for 2 years at 1m per, I would re-sign him.
I am really interested in seeing what Comrie can do with the extra ice time in the A...
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I see Hutchinson as an above average backup and not much else. It's a great chance for him, though.
Hellebuyck is supposed to be the goalie of the future and has a great resume but, how many goalies have failed in the NHL that had great junior/international resumes? Comrie on the Moose has played well and backed up Fucale at the worlds last year but is very young and inexperienced...with Helle getting called up, he has a great chance to see a lot of minutes. We also have Jamie Phillips that is playing for Michigan tech.
I see the goaltending falling apart and the Jets losing too many games to catch up to division rivals and make the playoffs. But what do I know?
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I see Kane and Bogo played over 21 minutes....how'd they play?
Rumors still abound about Hamonic to the Jets and some people have included Myers' name in the discussion.
Trouba was asked for but the Jets said no. I'd trade Myers straight up for Hamonic but I'm not sure how much extra I would give. If he were a LHD, I'd be offering Myers and a 2nd rounder but he is a RHD so I wouldn't add too much at all. The Isles are the ones needing to make a trade.Armia didn't dress for the loss last night and I didn't get to see the game. Why bring him up if you aren't going to play him? A 3 game road trip coming up and he comes in as the 13th player but still....give him a look-see at least. How much are we going to miss Peluso's 5 minutes of ice time each game?
I think if Lemieux ever makes the 3rd line, we should be glad. He should be a really good energy, shift disturber type of 4th liner with Copp and Lipon?
I see Kasdorf has a respectable .927 sv%.
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Old school hockey player that plays hurt and with pain and WANTS to play.
Evander Kane (knee) is ahead of schedule and is hoping to return this week.
"For me, they gave me a set schedule of 4-6 weeks, standard schedule. In my mind I'm thinking anywhere from 2 to 3 half at the most," Kane said with a laugh. "Obviously I'm not going to come back in two weeks but just that type of mindset helped me. It keeps you positive." He skated with the team Tuesday for the first time since suffering an MCL injury. Kane has been sidelined since Oct. 24 due to the ailment. -
That didn't take long. Myers is like that really hot GF that doesn't ######. Always leaves you wanting.
Snow wants a comparable RHD in return.
Buff isn't signed and trouba isn't going anywhere; thus, Myers makes sense. The Jets need an honest shutdown RHD and don't have one. Hamonic would fill that spot.
Great to hear Bogo and Kaner are ready to play for you guys...taking the Blues to a SO should give confidence and we need you guys to stomp the Stars.
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Staf played with Scheif and Perrault. A couple of guys with more games under their belt than Lowry and Burmistrov.
On a side note, the local forums and papers want Chevy to bring in Hamonic....everyone says Myers for Hamonic, I say DO IT! Add Postma or a 4th even.
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Thorny is right, the Jets aren't close tot he team they were last year. To many people taking games off and non-stellar goaltending..... you need above average to stellar goaltending to be a serious contender. The Jets aren't getting it.
On a side note, I thought Armia was the 2nd best player next to J.C. Lipon at last week's Moose/Wolves game. The up and coming Hellebuyck didn't have a very good game in goal.
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5 outta 8 will be from Central again these playoffs....Jets don't smarten up, they won't be participating.
Too many players not living up to expectations and I'll be the first to admit that Myers is one of them.
I'm okay with Staf's play this year and would say he is playing the best on his line...
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I'm ready to trade the whole team minus some Blake Wheelers and Bryan Littles for OEL about now....how bad is your D when you have Mark Stuart and Adam Pardy starting against the Blues?
Averaging 18 points to show for 19 games in the Central division isn't going to cut the mustard.
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I haven't been watching Winnipeg so I can't say if Stafford has been useless. I was reading comments from a Winnipeg board
and some of them called him MIA. That sounded familiar.
That's because he hasn't been putting up points recently. He has been asked to play on the checking line with a 22 year old 2nd year center and a 24 year old Russian that played two and a half years and then went to the KHL. I honestly think Staf has been one of the most consistent players and has played the role that the coach has asked him to play. Maurice mentioned the other day how happy he was with his play. Also, I am guessing that if a winger goes down to injury on the first two lines, Staf will fill in.
Myers, on the other hand, played really well last season and has sucked bag, in my opinion, this year. I mentioned on a local forum that if the Jets re-signed Buff and we traded a RHD, Myers should be the one traded. You would have thought that I said to trade our next ten years of 1st and 2nd round picks for D. Heatley! Maurice has played Myers and Trouba, 2 RHD, at the same time for two games now. I'd send Myers, a 1st rounder, Ladd and Armia to AZ for OEL. If OEL played in TO or NY, he would be a Norris winner by now.
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Well, Buffalo was 3-11-2 on this date last year.
Winnepeg was 8-5-2
Sounds like a wash for the Peg.
It was a reply to Marvelo's post...I thought one dumb reply deserved another...
d4rksabre,
Buff is the most beloved active sports figure in the Peg so I can't really see that happening.
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not sure how the italics got there.
Ducky whatever the reason was for him doing so, the act alone was being a bully.
Buff's way of saying you are not above the team and a track suit is not in the dress code. Neither is coming late or missing team meetings.
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When you look at the Kane-Bogosian/Stafford-Myers trade right now, I see Kane and Bogosian both out injured and still doing better than Stafford-Myers.
Sabres are 6-8 for 12 points.
Jets are 8-5-2 for 18 points...
Ya, I see how the Sabres won the trade...
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Byfuglien, who at one point last season told his agent to let Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff know if he didn’t trade Kane he would someday have to move him, didn’t go rogue. He had the support of his teammates.....
Doesn't sound selfish or being a bully to me....sounds like someone that didn't want a cancer in a locker room that is very tight.
Buff loves Manitoba with all the hunting and fishing and has said as much. He was born just across the border so it isn't that far away from home.
nfreeman,
I am not sure if he will be re-signed or traded....at his age Chevy will be hesitant to give him a long term contract. The return in a trade would be a lot but Chevy is trying to get Ladd signed before dealing with Buff. I'd give him 7.5 over 5 years but I doubt he would sign that.
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Up at 300 am.
Left house at 415 and drove for 80 minutes.
Saw around 12k-15k ducks and half that in Snows and Canadas.
Came home with one Gadwall for 3 hunters.
Frustrating...
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Here is the article....
Pick a side, any side. There seem to be endless choices when it comes to Dustin Byfuglien, who just might be the most misunderstood player in the NHL today.
He’s Big Buff, one of the most offensively talented defencemen in hockey.
He’s the malcontent who would prefer to give media the Marshawn Lynch treatment rather than show the smallest piece of his inner self.
He’s the smiling giant, standing in the middle of a Winnipeg classroom with children clinging to linebacker legs looking up to catch his every word.
He’s the perpetrator of reckless, violent acts on the ice like last season’s cross-check on Rangers forward J.T. Miller, which resulted in a four-game ban.
He’s the dancer, cutting towards the net with extraordinary grace like he did scoring his third goal of the season on Wednesday against Toronto. He’s the chameleon, using stevedore strength to swat away defenders before popping back into finesse mode and deftly flipping the puck over a goalie’s shoulder into the smallest of scoring windows.
He’s the dressing room boss, gathering up a teammate’s clothes and tossing them into a cold tub to make a point.
He’s the outsider, never quite good enough for Team USA’s liking.
He’s the 6-foot-5, 260-pound freak blessed with so much speed and power that even bumping another player while playing the puck can fool the naked eye and result in a call from the Department of Player Safety, like his recent brush with Montreal’s Brendan Gallagher.
He’s the King of Winnipeg, where more fans wear his jersey than any other and leap to their feet when he revs up for one of his charges.
He’s the sensitive sort, who, while mourning the death of his grandfather, allowed his in-season weight to rise to 302 pounds.
He’s the mad photo bomber, always looking to get in on the action when a teammate is being interviewed or photographed.
He’s the guy everyone wants on their team and the guy no one wants to play against. He’s the game-breaker who can put his team ahead in an instant but can also lose focus and make a costly error at just the wrong time.
He’s no game manager. He’s a home-run hitter who is willing to live with the accompanying strikeouts.
Just like Byfuglien is difficult to pin down as a player, he’s also hard to define as a person. And the latter is by design.
“He’s a great teammate,” says Florida Panthers GM Dale Tallon, who was part of the Chicago Blackhawks management team that Byfuglien joined out of junior. “A guy that really cares about his teammates and his team and winning. He’s a very kind and good-hearted person. He’s one of those Pied Pipers. Guys want to be around him and they want to follow him. He’s got a real nice way about him, a real nice personality. I had him on my team and I loved him.”
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Byfuglien was born to a single mother in Roseau, Minn., and raised in small-town fashion. His grandfather, Kenny Byfuglien, put him on skates and friends and family taught him the way around a hockey rink, a fishing boat and a deer stand. Byfuglien is as much Survivorman as he is Bobby Orr.
“Buff doesn’t like the spotlight other than when it’s on the ice,” says Ben Hankinson, who has been Byfuglien’s agent for more than a decade. “He loves to be at the heart of a game but not in the middle of a public conversation.
“Who is Buff? Who knows Buff? Those are great questions. He’s different things to different people. But at the heart of it all, he’s one of the best people I’ve ever been associated with. He was 18 and I got a call from his mom’s boyfriend asking if I would consider representing him. So I made my calls and I kept hearing he was a trouble-maker. But I also kept hearing he was a once-in-a-lifetime talent. So I drove up to Roseau and spent a lot of time with him before I made a decision. The bad apple stuff? I never saw a bit of it. He keeps his friends forever and he’s got lots of them from many different walks of life. He’s just a really, really good guy and if he lets you in, you can’t help but fall in love with him.”
Inside the Jets organization, Byfuglien is beloved. His teammates look to him for leadership. Last season, when former teammate Evander Kane crossed the line of some dressing room codes, it was Byfuglien who took the matter into his own hands, tossing the power forward’s clothes into frigid water and leaving them to soak.
"I’m sure you have rules in your household," Byfuglien said of the incident. "And if the kids don’t stick to it, you’ve got to discipline them. It is what it is."
Byfuglien, who at one point last season told his agent to let Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff know if he didn’t trade Kane he would someday have to move him, didn’t go rogue. He had the support of his teammates.
"There’s a standard that everybody needs to live up to," said Blake Wheeler. "We’re professionals. We make a lot of money. That’s the code we live by. If you don’t like it then there are other places you can go. This is the way we do things."
Winnipeg is a small place. He’s the most popular athlete in Winnipeg but he’s found a way to make it work for him. It’s no fishbowl where Byfuglien is concerned.
“I was in Winnipeg last year and we went for a beer after a game with (Jets defenceman) Adam Pardy,” recounts Hankinson. “We’re having something to eat and I look up there’s a guy with his phone and he’s filming Buff, waiting for him to take a sip of his beer. I asked him if he wanted me to tell the guy to stop. ‘Nah. I can’t tell people to stop taking pictures or filming me. It’s part of the job.’ He likes to keep his private life separate but he understands the people in Winnipeg have passion. And he thinks the people are generally good people. So it works for him. Winnipeg is a good fit for Buff.”
When Paul Maurice arrived in Winnipeg, Byfuglien was playing forward as part of a last-ditch experiment instigated by previous coach Claude Noel. Maurice hadn’t liked all of what he’d seen from Byfuglien on defence and insisted he stay at forward.
Over time, however, Byfuglien wore Maurice down and when injuries piled up early last season, the coach gave him his chance, but with the caveat that Byfuglien play the right way or be prepared to go back up front. Maurice wanted some game sound decision-making to go along with the remarkable talent.
He got it and Byfuglien since hasn’t spent more than a handful of power-play shifts at forward. Prior to injury and suspension slowing him down last season, he had an outside chance at Norris Trophy votes.
Now 30, a husband and a father of two young children, Byfuglien is on the precipice of free agency. The Jets want to keep him but so far talks have been limited. Term is an issue and so is cash value.
What’s he worth and for how long? It’s up for debate. Just like all things Byfuglien.
He’s unpredictable at times, as reliable as an old friend at others. Byfuglien remains a riddle. Take your pick, there’s no shortage of opinions. But don’t be surprised if before long he has you changing your mind.
Frustrating? Yep. Remarkable? Truly.
There’s a saying around the Jets dressing room which gets uttered quite often.
“That’s just Buff being Buff,” they say.
It’s the perfect blanket statement to cover hockey’s most unknowable and unpredictable star.
Doesn't sound like a prima donna to me.
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Sounds equally immature. I'm starting to thing those two didn't get along because they were too alike.
Surely you jest....Buff is the ultimate team first guy and the leader of the locker room....Kane, not so much.
Bunomatic, as soon as Kane quits commenting on Winnipeg, I am sure the fans will forget about him, until then....I doubt it.
D4rdsabre, he was shipped out because of cap issues....I think this has been well documented.
Kane didn't mention Buff as someone he would like to drop the gloves with because he would get annihilated.
As far as Yandle being better than Buff, you are entitled to your opinion.....wrong or wrong.
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This just came out in yesterday's local Winnipeg papers....this is taken from an article written about Buff.
Byfuglien, who at one point last season told his agent to let Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff know if he didn’t trade Kane he would someday have to move him.
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One Canada goose can poop over 2 pounds a day. Better to eat them (the goose not the poop).
Wow, that's a big goose.
Trade: Myers, Stafford, Armia, Lemieux, + Low 1st for Kane, Bogosian, and Kasdorf
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.937 is nothing to sneeze at.