Ducky

Top 1 or 2 in Trouba's case.

I wouldn't trade Trouba straight up for Eberle.

Top 1 or 2 in Trouba's case.

Of course, that would prompt the necessary name change from Ducky to Flamey.

7-4 final after trailing 3-0. Miller sucks

Budaj for Eberle straight up!!!!

I have been one of Buff's biggest supporters but he was close to putrid in these playoffs. He is supposed to be an elite player? He sure as hell didn't play like one. It seemed he was on the ice for a lot of goals against and didn't create any much-needed offence. Elite players lift there game and turn it up a notch, Buff didn't. Didn't come close to lifting it up  a notch. If Chevy moves him, it will be before or more than likely, on draft day. I would hate to play against him but he could bring back a lot in a trade. I was very unimpressed with is playoff performance and was hoping for a LOT more.
 
UFAs and RFAs:
 
Drew Stafford RW UFA         Michael Frolik RW UFA         Jiri Tlusty C UFA         Jim Slater C UFA         Lee Stempniak RW UFA         Matt Halischuk RW UFA         Eric O'Dell C RFA         Anthony Peluso
 
 
Paul Postma D RFA         Adam Pardy D UFA         Keaton Ellerby D RFA         Ben Chiarot D RFA
 
 
I would let Pardy, Slater, Tlusty, Halischuk and Peluso walk. Re-sign O'Dell and Ellerby for the farm. Offer Chiarot 5m over 4 years. Postma is a question mark...re-sign him for as little as possible and start him on the farm???
Staff (3 years) , Stemp ( 2 years), and Fro (3 years) I would try to re-sign. Ladd. I would offer Buff an extension of 5 years for 28m (5.6 a year).

I'd consider it a failure of management and Chevy's only real black mark if they hung onto Buff and lost him to Free Agency next summer.  Time is now to move him.  Im sure he's a great guy and good for the locker room and if he was willing to take $2 million, those are good buys.  But not for what he wants and surely his agent will be trying to cash in on the last big contract of his career.  The team seems to love him but a guy that shows up every few games, what message does that send to the rest of the team?
 
Maybe trade him to Buffalo... ;-)

Ladd has skipped lots of morning skates and practices the last month or so, he's hurting i think. Yeah he played well last night and it doesn't excuse his previous 2 games but if he's hurt, not even if he's hurt, he is. He still has shown more than Buff has. 

The Ducks got the puck into our end with 35 seconds left in the first period during the 4 on 4.  We regained possession 4 times in our end.  3 of those times we left our end on an odd man rush.  All of those times we left without the puck.  On their 3rd 2 on 1 / 3 on 1 chance the Ducks finally scored.  5 seconds left in the period.  Our decision making in our own end was horrible, and on each Duck goal I can point to a horrible decision made by one or more Jets players.
 
On the drive home I said I don't think the Ducks deserved to score 5 goals, but we certainly deserved to be scored on 5 times.
 
And holy crap, these are NHL players - do they not understand that responsibilities change in even numbered periods?  When I tell my players it's a long change at the start of the second, it's not so they don't accidentally go to the wrong bench.  The forwards have a responsibility to drive the puck deep so defence can change.  Getting the puck to the other team's blue line and turning it over doesn't get a tired defenceman off the ice.  This is basic situational awareness that I expect from players who aren't professionals.

Ladd hardly practised between games for a month now. I am not sticking up for him but if he is always having a maintenance day, he is playing with a hurt. He has been ineffective and maybe someone else should play on Little's left side? If they fall behind and aren't getting any chances, the coach HAS to switch up the lines.

They need a rule to prevent this from happening again. A team should not be rewarded for such poor management.
I'm sure McDavid will report. It's what you do in sports. But his agent will probably have some tough question for management about the future. As much I would hate to see a player refuse to report I would laugh if it did happen.

Little went into the corner in the chase position and came out in the chase position.  Didn't get a stick on Silvferberg's stick, didn't get a body on his body, didn't get an angle to force him outside.  It was the equivalent of leaving his man unchecked, except he fooled his teammates into thinking Silvferberg was covered.  One of them would have slid over to that lane much quicker if Little hadn't created the illusion of having his man.  It wasn't a shining moment for him.

So how are they going to screw this up?

Reckon Ladder's been playing hurt for awhile now, so any rest he can get is good rest. 

Term could be something too. There are a lot of teams. Odds are someone would offer him more money or more term or both.
The X factor is Stafford because I wonder if he has altered the Jets plans at all. Where they might have been willing to capitulate to Frolik a bit maybe they don't want to now

And I totally agree with not screwing junior teams.  But there are, from time to time, exceptional players that get no better from Junior play but need time playing against full grown professional men to improve.  There should be some sort of compensation given to allow a team to end a player's junior eligibility early.

Think he will go to a crap team for more money?
 
How much is more money for a guy like him anyway? Youd think around 4ish is what a guy like him is worth. How much more will he get?
 
Will he go to TO for 4.5? or stay here at 4? Is that money worth all the loosing or all the winning? 
 
Offer them what our fair value is and what they are worth.

I think that the complete inability to close out 3-1 series migrated with Jets 1.0 to Phoenix -- the Coyotes also blew a couple of 3-1 series leads in the 90s, if memory serves.
But man if we are up 3-1 in the series and lose Game 5, I am gonna need some thorazine because those Edmonton and Vancouver series back in the 90s just about killed me.

Frolik does not deserve 4-5 and not sure if Staf does either.

We match up well against the Ducks. Stay out of the box. Play our style. Jets in 6.

As with most, if not all, series this one will be decided by the goalies. Which Pavs do we see? Just continue that hot streak and we got this series!

I hate the Leafs with every fiber of my being. I would rather live through a 100-year Roughrider Grey Cup run than a single Leaf Stanley Cup.
I feel bad for Peter Horachek, though, because Shanahan hand-picked him to drive the Leafs straight into the iceberg. I was hoping he'd coax a late run out of the team, make them lose some of their McDavid raffle tickets and weaken MLSE's resolve to burn the place down.
(based on http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/kelly-shanahans-scorched-earth-leafs-plan-wins-mlse-support/article22938348/)
At least I'll always have this stat: the Leafs finished winless on the road in 2015 in games where both the opposing goalies didn't hurt themselves.

With Pavs watching from the press box this game I hope he won't be sitting out of position.

Meanwhile Brendan Lemieux played in his first playoff game of the year and got an assist in the Colts win over North Bay, while here in Kelowna Josh Morrissey played his first game in six weeks tonight and got three assists as the Rockets pummelled Victoria 5-0. He's going to be a good one.
http://www.kelownacapnews.com/sports/rockets/news/299435581.html