BigBlueFanatic

This Vegas fan base is enthusiastic, but they’ve been handed a contender. No building no drafting or developing... no pain or heart break, no patience. It’s more spectacle than character at this point. Sounds harsh but only time will tell if this fan base is legit.

Last game was such an extreme of highs and lows... from abject misery and an endless string of cursing, to untold heights of delirious joy. Here in Edmonton, I’m sure my neighbours would have called the cops, except they knew I was home watching a Jets game lol.

Jets show so much consistency when it comes to preparation for these big games. So far I feel it’s been pretty easy to see right away when they’re ‘on’, like their speed and how quickly they contest every puck. The one loss in round one they were slow and fighting the puck all night, and that was after being cooped up in an airplane all day less than 24 hours before. The goal post sure helped hold the lead but like Wheeler said, it happened to both teams last night. Jets executed a sound game plan to near perfection and created their own puck luck.

The Bombers came right out and said they were willing to make Henoc the second highest paid Cdn player on the roster. To post on social media like Kyle Walters slapped him across the face is pure BS and pretty classless. Good riddance to this guy...

Nothing ugly about that win - it was way more dominating than the game 1 win! Jets were patient in applying pressure and tirelessly delivering pain at every turn. They were smarter on offense and didn’t look like they over-thought chances like they did early in game 1. Can’t wait to see how our boys handle the Minnesota home crowd on Sunday!

Tremendous follow up performance by the Jets! Hellebuyck gonna need to keep smelling salts next to his water bottle, because most of the game happened at the other end of the rink...

Agreed - seemed like the Jets were off there usual game in those two road losses to the Avs but salvaged some points. If they were to meet in the playoffs I’d expect the results to be very different and well in our favour.

Blues were on a five game win streak as of this morning... they’ve been back in the hunt for a couple of weeks

Given the injuries, the tail end of a back to back, and the nightmare first period... the score could have been so much worse. It’s not much consolation given that the Jets were looking to make up ground on the Preds, but at least we can say we didn’t lose 7-4 to Ottawa!

A trap game if ever there was one... still, Laine with his 40th is nice! #silverlinings

PTO contract so they could dress a backup. Hutch showed up for the 2nd period anyway.

They’ve been desperate for a weeks and weeks for anything remotely interesting to talk about. Sure the Oilers need players but they have almost nothing of value that they’d even consider trading. The painful truth the media here never mentions is that every front office that’s come through here has kept the same brutal scouting staff for decades. I’m not remotely an Oilers fan but it’s hard not to see the real problem here.

Here on TSN 1260 in Edmonton they just mentioned Roslovic for Maroon would be a fair return ???

In no way whatsoever was my post intended to say or imply anything at all about Nashville’s hockey team.

Tied for first in our division... built (not bought) into a contender... for Jets fans this truly is The Undiscovered Country...

All I have is the TSN app scorebox on my phone... when I saw it was 7 shots to 0 for the Blues almost halfway through the first it was definitely concerning. Undue worry apparently!

Between the price of the contract, rejecting the Riders and the undoubted motivation after a down year, I totally love this signing. Sounds like he’s really grown as a person and is intent on delivering a heck of a season for Bombers fans.

55 or bust!

The Bombers also have Drew Wolitarski, and he’ll have the benefit of a full training camp to show what he can do.

Looks like we’re starting to feel the effects of Scheifele’s absence... Lowry on the IR exacerbates that

Would love to see Bauman in TC2018... his highlight reel posted on this forum was pretty intriguing. Demski as a FA acquisition would be huge, as would Wolitarsky's development into a starter/backup role - the kid seems to have all the tools.

Going back before this game, my gut feeling was that Mo Leggett's achilles injury was going to sink this defence. It's retrospect but I really wonder if it wouldn't have been better to put Randle at SAM linebacker when Mo went down. He made the transition before, and brilliantly so before his knee injury. Yeah that breaks up the Randle/Heath tandem but as we witnessed, SAM linebacker absolutely requires equal measures athleticism, smarts and grit.

I also felt it was a potential (later confirmed) turning point. Who let Watson shoot the gap like that? He gets picked up, possibly or even likely a different outcome. Other factors were there all game long that can't be ignored: *When* Hurl was in the right place at the right time on Gable still = whiffed tackle and huge gain/score. I'm a big Kevin Fogg fan but the guy is NOT cut out for SAM linebacker. 2 or three steps behind on a lot of plays. Had Gable in the backfield a couple of times amd couldn't hang on. Nichols let down by drops on critical downs - what a shame. Watched the game till the end and even though it was garbage time... grateful for a bit of window dressing to take the sting off the D folding. Pathetic I know but still. Mainly I just can't imagine what Nichols, Harris, Dressler et al were going through at the end.

Just caught on to the last few min here on 1260am in Edmonton. The show hosts have totally written off the Bombers as "running on fumes" and are guzzling their own hype. Praying for our 2nd place team to "upset" their 3rd place team...

Well it's about good goddamn time... no offense to TrueBlue4ever (who sub'd in well!), but DoD goes on vacay and it's like the whole place was gonna burn to the ground. Welcome back and well done!