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Thoughts from the Jets’ inaugural month
Bolstering Byfuglien
If you’re getting tired of Dustin Byfuglien’s attention to detail – or lack thereof – prepare to be exasperated. Buff has demonstrated his recklessness on several occasions, seldom more obviously than Saturday night in New Jersey, where his neutr [...]
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Thoughts from the Jets’ inaugural month
Bolstering Byfuglien
If you’re getting tired of Dustin Byfuglien’s attention to detail – or lack thereof – prepare to be exasperated. Buff has demonstrated his recklessness on several occasions, seldom more obviously than Saturday night in New Jersey, where his neutr [...]
Sunday Jets Notes: Impact Players, Li...
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Impact and Complementary Players
It’s interesting to hear people analyze a certain player’s role or importance. Most assumptions about players are inherently imprecise, but none more so than the labeling of players by their supposed line. Terms like “1st line centre” and “2nd line winger” get thrown around a lot, and are meant to refl [...]
Why Do We Fall?
Why the Jets may need to lose the battle to win the war
If patience is a virtue, we’d all be wise to become a lot more virtuous, right now. I don’t want to harp on the following point, but need to make one thing clear: the Jets are…not a good team. To put it very kindly, they are “below average” defensively. They’ve demonstrated a trem [...]
These Things Take Time: Jets Long-Ter...
John Wooden - arguably the most successful coach of all-time
Claude Noel’s pre-game interview on Sunday was music to my ears. He avoided most of the hockey euphemisms about his team needing to “play 60 minutes”, “get in on the fore-check”, “get pucks to the net”, and all the other nonsense that coache [...]
Jets Roster Update: Opening Night Lin...
Forwards
There are 11 forwards who had NHL jobs locked up from the beginning: Ladd, Little, Wheeler, Kane, Burmistrov, Antropov, Slater, Thorburn, Glass, Wellwood, and Fehr. With Fehr on IR, the Jets were looking for 3 players to fill out their forward group.
The only other forwards who remain in camp are Cormier, Bodie, Maxwell, Pesonen, Gre [...]
Thoughts on Jets Camp
Future Jet (D) Paul Postma
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Next Wednesday (Oct. 5) is the deadline for all teams to submit their *23-man rosters to the NHL, and at present, there are 36 players remaining in camp. The list includes 3 goalies, 10 defencemen, and 20 active forwards (three are currently injured). That means there will probably be about two more rounds [...]
The Ballad of Mark Scheifele: Slow an...
Scheifele all smiles at Jets camp
If Jets fans didn’t love Mark Scheifele before, they sure love him now. After a dominant performance in rookie camp, Scheifele scored 2 goals and 2 assists in his NHL exhibition debut, showing great skill and poise along the way. Off the ice he is about as likable as can be, and has wooed Winnipeg hocke [...]
Getting to Know Your Winnipeg Jets
It’s probably safe to say that the Winnipeg Jets 2011 training camp has been the most well-attended NHL camp of all-time. The air of excitement is palpable, as waves of fans that descended upon the MTS Iceplex beginning at 7:30 am for an event which didn’t begin until 9. And while Jets fans have eaten up every opportunity to see the Prodigal [...]
Jets News: Rookie Randoms, Winning wi...
Cheveldayoff, Scheifele, and Noel
Rookies Update
The Jets’ inaugural rookie camp kicked off Saturday at the MTS Iceplex in front of hundreds of fans eager to get their first taste of Jets action. Overall the practice was a bit anticlimactic, as the coaches merely ran the rookies through a series of intricate drills, but Mark Scheifele [...]
Winnipeg Jets Rookie Camp
Jets rookie camp begins this Saturday at 2 pm at the MTS Iceplex. It represents the first opportunity for management to evaluate their prospects first-hand, and will help them determine which of these young players may have NHL talent. There’s no doubt that the new franchise’s first ever selection, 7th overall pick Mark Scheifele, will garne [...]