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Everyone says how steady Demello is, but in my eyes he is not as reliable as he once was and has slipped to #5 D-man on the depth chart
Wait the Rangers traded away a few Core players the Jets aren’t winning a Cup with 55/81 and Helli any time soon
Ok Boyszzzzz the players Production is there it’s not Winning a Cup here
Jets need 4 LINEzzzzzzzz boyys in order to win and production but Kyle Conner should have a line build around 55/ and 81
1 line team is Not a solution
An earthworm has more teeth than this Jets team
Arniel lost this team. Its Embarrassing.
And its curious how the Wpg media gives him a pass
16 shots- 6 goals-5 5.12 11 16 .688- Get rid of Hellysuck. Absolutely brutal!!! Best world goalie..MY ASS!!
1st line is very bad defensively, always have been.
HellawhatTHE ___ WE are in big trouble REGROUP REGROUP We STINK !!!!!
I agree with 1st caller in a way not that Connor isn't worth 12m or him and Scheifele arnt talented but the guys around the core Helly,Jmo,Villardi have all underperformed. Making them cheat even worse then they normally do which isn't much defence. If we had a great 2nd/3rd line not Iafallo,Namestnikov,Neidereitter,Nyquist it would hide the insufficientcies of the 1st line.
In a match up vs match up come playoffs what other teams top guys who have dogs in them willing throw the body,play hard every shift,fight if need be none of our core besides Lowry have it I don't mean a goon or guys like Stanley/Schenn depth. I mean watch top teams cores
Florida- Marchand,Bennett,Tkachuk,Ekblad,Mikola,even bottom 6 guys do what is needed.
Tampa- Paul,Perry,Cirelli,Hagel,Point,Moser,Lilleberg whoever do what is needed fight hit make it hard to play against.
Guys from the Cup teams Schenn,Bogosian,Coleman,Killorn,McDonagh,Maroon,Goodrow,took a chance on Callahan.
Vegas- Stone,Howden,Sissons,Kolesar,Theodore,McNabb,Hanfin,Andersson.
When Blues won the Cup
-ORielly,Schenn,Petriangelo,Maroon,Parayko,Emdundson,Bouwmeester,Botuzzo,Gunnarsson,Thorburn,JordanNolan,Sanford,Steen.
When Hawks won players swapped
Ladd,Byflugien,Keith,Seabrook,Hartmann,Danault,Bickell,Boynton,Shaw,Versteeg,Bollig,Carcillo,Bolland.
Penguins and Kings
Had guys like MikeRichards,Carter,Doughty,Brown,McNabb,King,Regehr,Clifford,Greene,Scuderi.
Pens- Orpik,Scuderi,Gill,Fedotenko,Cooke,Kennedy,Goddard,Talbot,Sutter,Staal guys who are willing do what it takes block shots,fight,rub opponents out,slam d every chance when they retrieve puck these arnt just 4th liners it's top guys.
Those flyers teams 2009-2011
Bruins had
Lucic,Chara,Marchand,Peverley,Kelly,Horton,Seidenberg,Ference,Rolston,Thornton,McQuaid,Boychuk,Cambell with the guys like Bergeron,Krejci,Seguin not into physical play.
When a fan or media say oh well or try and cope there's more ways to win or play to get a cup there really isn't it's willingness do what it takes go back last 25yrs look at all the teams.
The ducks yes had skill Selanne,Neidermayer,Underrated player AndyMcdonald but had Pronger,Jackman,Getzlaf,Perry,Penner,Moen,Beauchemin,OBrian,Thornton,Parros/BradMay,Kunitz,Fedoruk,Rome guys not afraid hard to play against mix it up.
Not soft players but needing a mix of both the offensive guys need to be offensive and guys who hard to play against accept roles.
Example of a cup team to me hypothetical
Connor Scheifele Villardi
Perfetti Ehlers/Laine
Iafallo Lowry Laughton/Copp
Rosen Toews Sundquist
Reaves Gustafson Joseph
When younger Kadri/Schenn/ORielly/Jenner would have fit 2C now they are old. And mid guys like Coyle,Lee,Hayes,Dach whoever arnt enough it needs to be a Pettersson/Barzal/Horvat/Zabinejad/Thomas bigger name guy but they won't want to come here. And guys like Wright/Mercer are young.
Morrissey Trouba
Samberg Pionk
Stanley Oleksiak
Schenn/Bogosian/Soucy/Hamonic 1 of them plus Salmonsson.
Hellebuyck Comrie
Ik not realistic I'm saying that's what a roster would need to looks like to win
We could try Connor and scheifele with Ryan reaves because “it’s something they haven’t tried yet”
13:14 That is incredibly naive to think that they're years away from this conversation. Hellebuyck doesn't have that many years as an elite player left. He's going to turn 33 in two months. If this team continues to go nowhere with this same front office making bargain basement moves, Helle could be asking out by early next season.
He wants to win a cup, and the Jets are getting further & further away from that, and he's getting older. And the ownership & front office has shown no real commitment to building a legit contender. And when they had a chance last year, Chevy botched the TDL badly.
That conversation is a lot sooner than you think. Florida will be looking for a goalie since they're not extending Bobrovsky.