Mack from Mc and Macklin

Mark Stone has the hairstyle and look of an early Canadian Prime Minister.

I don’t understand why any particular administration can revoke a scientific finding. but then again I’m not a scientist

I maintain that Canada needs a better goal song. The US simply laps us with the quality of their goal song. We need to start a petition to make Canada’s goal song ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ by Neil Young.

The victimization of the third pair will continue until the Jets draft 1OA.

Is it called the ‘silver goalie coach’ because they teach you how to win silver medals?

For Alex Lafreniere - the best case scenario with him is he gets traded to a team like the Jets and flourishes with additional ice time and responsibilities. Connor-Scheifele-Lafreniere could put up a 65% XG share imo.

Re: Jets - Perfetti had textbook post-high ankle sprain symptoms until very recently and I’d expect his level of play to continue to improve. Stanley - I’m optimistic the Jets will either extend him to a contract commensurate with a (cont’d) @dimfilipovic.bsky.social @thomasdrance.bsky.social

@garrethohl.bsky.social do you have a screenshot of the infamous Girard/Debrincat tweet I can use to win an argument?

I just want to let everyone know that because I was not given the award for ‘best dressed’ at this year’s company Christmas party, I no longer feel an obligation to think of dressing well.

In hindsight, this was when it all started to go downhill for CJ Stroud.

Winnipeg Jets fans:

This is excellent. Local news coverage is so important, and the way it’s been co-opted south of the border is a huge reason for their issues there. Good to see the Feds stepping up.

🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼 @wpgmurat.bsky.social A perfect read for a guy home with a sick toddler. Congrats Murat! www.nytimes.com/athletic/694... Winnipeg Jets dads give their best fatherly advice: ‘It’s an amazing ride’

Get him on the 3rd pair and he’s still very effective. Play Salo with Morrissey and Demelo with Stanley and that could be great deployment. The problem is this will make the Jets better and I want to pick top-3

You jinxed it Sawyer!

@downgoesbrown.bsky.social re: attendance at the WJC - a huge factor is that *nobody* from Winnipeg is crossing the border to go to Minneapolis right now. IIRC the previous tournaments held in North Dakota and the Twin Cities were very well attended.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

I don’t want a life preserver. Picking top 4 then getting younger next season (NOT a rebuild) would get us significantly closer to a cup than bringing in Sherwood or Mangiapane or whoever.

Is it bad that I actually like this deployment? Swap Pearson for Koepke and obviously trade Schenn then call up Salomonsson, but I like the look of the top-3 lines and Namestnikov at 4C. That said, I maintain a top-4 pick should be the priority for the Jets right now.

Despite the oft-mentioned seniorism of the roster, if the Jets pick top-4 and graduate several moose players next year they could have a very young, exciting roster in 2026-27.

As in other years, I probably won’t see everything I intend to until around March but here’s my 2025 list as of Jan 1, 2026. OBAA - I’m not usually a huge PTA guy but I loved the film. Weapons - loved it, and I usually am not a horror guy. boxd.it/FApRG/detail

Jets fans:

I’m on the record that I think the Jets have been a combination of extremely unlucky and the victims of poor deployment thus far in the season. That said, I really think they need to just punt to 2026-27. There’s a case to be made that this season is exactly what the doctor ordered.

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.