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Also was bighill saving his best stuff for playoffs? 

Wellll       Here we goooooooooo

Face mask much

Ah man I forgot about Rod Hitchcock. Dude could hit like a ton of bricks. Looks good for his age. Nice to see.

Evans sure makes Masoli expendable for the TiCats....

I def want Ridermania and trapper here, and I would accept jayrock's wife because she's a Bomber fan and sounds very cool. She puts up with him already and probably needs our community's support.

Must be a big one.  Drinking gin at 7:00 AM

Oh good grief.....   this pj guy starting his crap here now.
poor me    poor me        blah blah blah

Lets not bring that crap over here.
If pj wants to....let him.   Im sure someone here will take care of it.
They will figure it out.

Oh good grief.....   this pj guy starting his crap here now.
poor me    poor me        blah blah blah

Well ****,,,,  i forgot i was a member here.

Thats what she said
 
 
Lol      Cheers

Thats what she said
 
 
Lol      Cheers

Thats what she said
 
 
Lol      Cheers

Well ****,,,,  i forgot i was a member here.

Well ****,,,,  i forgot i was a member here.

Many, many of us predicted that this was a step back year.  Its not a surprise to most.

I'm still not sure what you're arguing.  Stempniak is better than a bunch of players currently on our roster.  That isn't some revelation.  Does that mean they should have signed Stempniak?  Why?  To what end purpose?
Stempniak is a perfectly good 3rd line player, 2nd line on a weaker team.  So we sign him and then what?  We don't play Ehlers?  Lowry doesn't get a second year of pro experience under his belt?  Armia doesn't get called up?  Copp doesn't get experience?  Every other year Chevy has taken a flyer on a low-cost player or two because our young guys weren't ready to play in the NHL yet and we had roster spots to fill.  And that's why they were always signed to one or two year deals - so they were not obstructing a roster spot for one of the young guys when they became ready.
What offseason signings did the Jets make this year where the Jets could have accomplished the same thing with Stempniak and instead chose to go with a different player?  Re-signing Peluso?  So Stempniak is a guy we bring in to be an enforcer, sit in the press box for 40 games and play 5 minutes a night the other 40?  Signing Fraser?  So Stempniak is a guy who is going to take a cheap contract, play on the Moose most of the year and be ready to fill in for injuries, and get moved back down without getting claimed by another team?  These are the actual roles for these players, not just a reflection of our surprise that they aren't Stamkos in disguise.  Stempniak is too good a player for those roles.
This season was a big part of development for the young players.  Draft and development.  It's a process.  Look at what happened with Lowry this year.  Growth is not a straight line trending up, and the time it takes for each player will be different.
Stempniak is a decent enough player and I would have been fine with re-signing him.  The young guys were finally considered ready enough to bring on-stream in 2.0.  Any playing time given to Stempniak would come at their expense.  The absence of his 20 goals is a short term pain for long term gain.

You want to force him into the NHL for some reason.
It seems you want him to just produce or trade him for another prospect. Seems to me thats what your deal is. Trade them all
We should develop our players before we give up.
 
Seems stupid to just go about trading away guys for others we have no clue about.

Develop players correct and they understand the first contract they sign aint their last. The long term will come.
 
If we trade away or give up on players before they are ready we will end up like ****.
 
We drafted these guys. Develop them correctly.
Trouba should get 5 years at 20-25 mil. Then hes 26-27 years old and can as for more.
 

If we keep adding to many young guys to our roster at once we wont get better. As good as they are they need time.
 
Not only do they need time but so do guys on the big team now. Guys like Ehlers, Armia, Copp.. Id even add in Trouba, Myers... Still really young players and are still learning the NHL. We need to give these guys a bit of time to find their game and role at the NHL level before we start adding more rookies.
As much as id luv to see our young guys up here doing well id like to see them develop and learn from our more experienced players. 

Dude...  You dont trade a guy just because the RHD and LHD thing. Both Trouba and Buff can play either side Maurice has said that many times.
The only real time it matters is if its a stay at home Dman.... If hes a puck moving guy it dont matter what side they play as much as you think.
Some guys actually like playing the other side.

Dude...  You dont trade a guy just because the RHD and LHD thing. Both Trouba and Buff can play either side Maurice has said that many times.
The only real time it matters is if its a stay at home Dman.... If hes a puck moving guy it dont matter what side they play as much as you think.
Some guys actually like playing the other side.

I sure am glad Chevy decided to deal with Buff and eventually sign him and we are not talking about how much we gave Ladd and had to let Buff go and what we got back for Buff. Chevy signed the right guy and then got a fair deal for Ladd.

Sure wish I also could have been in on those discusions like everyone else seems to have been.  I didn't know they were like an open practise.
It's unlikely that they re-sign him, but certainly not impossible.  They want him here and he wants to be here.  The money part has to work with the long term plan or otherwise the long term plan is meaningless and doomed to fail.  That is the only reason he was traded and it is the only sticking point on an otherwise happy relationship between the two parties.
I'd still give it a 25% chance he re-signs here in the offseason, because there isn't necessarily any team that will want to go substantially higher than what the Jets are willing to offer.  The most likely suitors for someone like Ladd who would spend significantly more than us would be a team that feels they have a leadership problem in their dressing room.  A player like Ladd "checks all the boxes" as Bowman said, so if a team needs a stronger leadership group, why not get a guy who also scores and is physical and plays on both special teams and is great in the community?  And to a team like that, a player like Ladd might be worth the extra half mil per (or whatever, because I'm not going to pretend I was in that room) that he is seeking.  If there isn't a team like that?  Ladd coming back to play here is entirely plausible.