Well, I guess it’s as good a time as any to start reading up on this year’s NHL draft rankings.

I’m really happy for Chicago fans

@dimfilipovic.bsky.social @thomasdrance.bsky.social I like the moxie from Guerin and I’ll always support going for it but I’m really not sure that even with Hughes the Wild are good enough to get past the Jets when they’re firing on all cylinders much less the Avs or Stars.

I gotta say, nothing makes you appreciate NHL refs more than watching an NFL game.

Drake Maye with the downfield block on the busted rushing play with Henderson!!! 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

I like the moxie, and always support ‘going for it’, but Vancouver should be extremely happy with the return here.

I expressed this opinion privately a few times since Friday, but I want to put this on the record. The Quinn Hughes trade could be a career-defining bad trade for Bill Guérin. If either he extends in Minnesota or they make a couple of conference finals before he leaves, I say it’s a win. *BUT*

@wpgmurat.bsky.social I’m with you on the Jets. I think they’re definitely in the convo for a WC slot if not 3rd in central even with the bad month. @mremis.bsky.social @sportstalkwpg.bsky.social

Mark Scheifele needs to trim the duster. It’s starting to grow outwards.

Luke Schenn: everyone has to keep pulling each other.

@dimfilipovic.bsky.social @thomasdrance.bsky.social I can’t help but feel that while the Jets have been not good, the reasons for that are varied. Initially they were getting results with bad underlying metrics. I blame this on the Lowry, Perfetti and most importantly Samberg injuries.

Big yikes

Vilardi that was sick

Clean hit.

@downgoesbrown.bsky.social @seangentille.bsky.social The Jets’ biggest problem is the injuries on defence. Dylan Samberg missed 17 games, then a week later, Pionk got injured. This means we have had Logan Stanley and Luke Schenn playing 2nd pair minutes for long stretches of the season.

Follow up to this rant: Re: the “embarrassing the veterans” conversation, the only thing I could think of was this iconic line from ‘Superbad’: @wpgmurat.bsky.social @mremis.bsky.social @sportstalkwpg.bsky.social

@wpgmurat.bsky.social @mremis.bsky.social @sportstalkwpg.bsky.social I agree with 90% of what Murat had to say today. The Lambert conversation kind of misdiagnoses the Jets main problem (other than Comrie forgetting he’s a plus GSAx goaltender with the Jets). Cont’d:

Younghoe Noo!

Great article by two of my favourite people covering the Jets. I’ve long felt the Jets biggest problem in both the playoffs and this year is the defensive depth (Schenn/Stan/Fleury/Miller) getting stuck in their own end *way* too often. This is why secondary scoring has been an issue. (Cont’d)

As someone who hasn’t watched a lot of moose hockey, I’m really impressed with Milic’s puck handling. Not really used to seeing a goalie in a Jets sweater move the puck with as much confidence and prowess as Milic.

I think the number one thing the Jets need to do is: don’t panic. Per Moneypuck, Eric Comrie is like -4.6 GSAx over the last three games. Prior to that (and last season), he was always a plus goalie. We just need league average goaltending from him (or Milic).

I pretty desperately want to see: Morrissey-Salomonsson Samberg-Miller Stanley-Demelo And I want to see the exact same deployment as now - Samberg takes the toughest minutes, followed by Morrissey and then Stanley and Demelo against the bottom of the roster.

@wpgmurat.bsky.social re: trades Jets fans would undo: top of my list with a bullet is trading back with Vegas at the expansion draft. I acknowledge we had to keep Enstrom but there had to have been a better way to do it rather than giving up Nick Suzuki.

Re: Jets I think people are overreacting to the last two losses and underreacting to the losses on the road trip. Team played well against a good Carolina squad but took an L Got PDO’d vs Minnesota but played well.

One of the random movie things I care about for no reason is the ‘Best Original Song’ Oscar and this year is shaping up to be an all-timer. Golden - Demon Hunters I Lied to You - Sinners Highest 2 Lowest Then I guess some songs from Wicked will round out the category.

@downgoesbrown.bsky.social @seangentille.bsky.social I’ve been banging the drum that the home team should decide what colour they wear in the playoffs - nobody wants to bring multiple kits on the road but it’s pretty reasonable for the home team to decide in the postseason.

The Jets have 24.5M in cap space next year and only Perfetti and some UFAs to sign - if Toews wants to come back I’m sure he’s welcome, and Stanley is the only other potential returnee amongst the group imo. Chevy should go shopping for a ‘good player, bad contract’ guy to shore up the top-6.

Side note: I had no idea that the Leafs traded their 1st in 2020 to get Carolina to buy out Marleau. I don’t *think* the Jets had the cap space at the time to do it but it would have been nice to have Jarvis skating with Perfetti and Toews this year.

It’s articles like this, and @wpgmurat.bsky.social that make the @theathletic.com subscription worth every penny.

I think I’ve lost a full 8 hours of sleep in the last week due to this nonsense. We have jobs, NHL schedulemakers.

@dimfilipovic.bsky.social @thomasdrance.bsky.social I simply can’t comprehend how you can leave Scheifele and Morrissey off the roster. If it were a footspeed issue I would understand, but they can both keep up. There’s only *one* d-man who has scored more than Morrissey in the last 18mos: Makar.

The paradox of tolerance in full force.

@downgoesbrown.bsky.social I can’t help but feel that NCAA hegemony will be terrible for hockey. Specifically it will be terrible for Canadian hockey. I think there’s a roadmap where USHL/CHL merge tell the NHL/Ncaa that if they want to play and develop in our leagues at 16, we get them until D+1.

A nearly perfect bell curve to an extremely provocative movie. @letterboxd.social

Why tf is Donald Trump spewing propaganda on Redzone rn?

That play to Diggs was simply unavailable to the Patriots last year.

I really feel that over the last two weeks the Ducks and Sharks have delivered this message to the league:

Macklin Celebrini is something else. Just dogwalked a Norris candidate and the reigning Hart and Vezina winner.

@dimfilipovic.bsky.social with Friedman talking about a Kyrou trade I would like us all to revisit this idea from last year’s deadline.

At least a part of me is worried that the CPC’s reaction to these defections will be the same as the GOP over Trumps first term - to replace them with hardliners and somehow manage to retain a similar share of the electorate.

@downgoesbrown.bsky.social @seangentille.bsky.social y’all need to take a look at the Vilardi no goal from last night’s Jets/Kings game. We need to determine what the statute of limitations is on foot in the crease then leaving the crease on goaltender interference.

*looks at temperature* “That’s not too bad” *looks at wind*

ROGERS!!!!!

I think Scheifele listened to @theathletic.com hockey show today.

@garrethohl.bsky.social I think that sequence around the net is a good example of why Toews might not be the problem his advanced metrics may suggest.

The Chicago Blackhawks seem to be very bad at defending the rush.

@seangentille.bsky.social @shaynagoldman.bsky.social @haileysalvian.bsky.social Y’all talking about Scheifele vs Jarvis for team Canada, and I’m forced to ask which of these two players you want playing RW with Crosby and MacKinnon?

Je suis un Belieber.

Making Rex Ryan cry on air seems really exploitative and gross and weird.