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I saw someone say that but I agree that's way too much and nobody will pay that

One thing. 8.5 9 million? Who has the cap space. Teams that aren't winning any time soon do. The contenders sure don't.

What I mean by luxury is we already have 2 top 4 young rh d men in myers and Trouba. When you think about it you don't need 3. It would be nice but isn't necessary really. Maybe buff can play the left side tho. If not it's pretty tough to give all 3 equal minutes. Well its not, it's just that maybe that 7 million or so would be better spent elsewhere. Perhaps areas where depth isn't as strong as the rhd side. Add in that buff will be 30 and perhaps looking for big term and money. Just saying it might make more sense to upgrade the team elsewhere. Then again who really knows what buff wants. That's the big question. What does buff want. Seems like he likes it here likes being a leader here. He might not like it elsewhere or might not be a leader elsewhere.

As long as our starters all don't go down at the same time, i think we should be ok. Then again, how many teams could lose 2 or 3 oline starters at once and be fine? Not many, if any at all.

Difference between Stamkos and OVI tho is stamkos actually hustles back in the play, I'm not knocking OVI, i actually really like the guy, he seems to be a pretty nice down to earth guy, he's just a cherry picker tho. It's cool, Like i said, i'd take a guy who can score 50 on the Jets any time really. Ovi and Stamkos aren't as bad as Kessel tho, I mean at least at times OVI tries to get back in the play to help out Defensively. Kessel doesn't come past the center line very often. I'd take OVI on the Jets in a second, Russian factor? Nah, Cuz then every russian who could score would be a cherry picker, Tarasenko,Malkin but they arent', they are complete 2 way players, OVI isn't really, he's very good tho, he just concentrates more on scoring goals than playing D and that's fine. I guess you can say, OVI is paid to score goals, he's doing that in bunches so he's doing his job really.

He was being heralded as a norris trophy winner by Jets fans. Winning the Norris means nothing, it doesn't mean you are the best D man. It means you are good at putting up points really, Playing D doesn't mean a thing to Norris trophy candidates. D men play D first, buff does not do that. When he wants to be someone said? You realize that is like once every 5 games probably. It would be nice to keep Buff but, not sure why anyone is pretending he's one of the top 10 D men in the league, he's not. Toby is actually better, Myers might be too, Trouba is too, They play D first mostly, That's what you want in your D men. He's not Doughty, He's not Subban, He's not Letang even, He's not OEL in Arizona, He's not really an elite D man, he's a good d man but... he's not elite. lol at questioning peoples hockey knowledge because someone don't think Buff is elite, He's not, what makes anyone think he is? Elite D men don't take games off at a time, Elite d man don't play good D only when they feel like doing it, they do it all the time. People do know what the D stands for right? But if he is elite, then he should get 9 million a year cuz that's what the doughtys and subbans get. That's too rich for the Jets blood i think.

OVI is a huge cherry picker but with that being said, I'd love to have a soon to be 50 goal scorer on the Jets.

Jets Win. 1 point behind minny still but 4 up on LA now. LA has problems. Big problems. They are not gonna make it. Minny and the Jets will

Huge win. Pav is lights out. I guess you can say like his mask. He's the boss recently. As for stopping ovi all the jets needed was a myers

Minny has no cap space to sign guys with suter and Parise being paid a ton. Same issue there tho. Suter and Brodin. Minny wouldn't have much interest I don't think. They have bigger issues then adding yet another rh d man. Jets are 5-2 without buff. Is he really needed that badly? People also need to realize buff ain't that great defensively. Had a good first half but his old habits of pinching at wrong times and not hustling back In the play had reared it's ugly head. Buff is good. He's not elite tho

Wheeler is also signed to a decent deal. Boychuk in nyi got 7 years 42 million. How much could buff get. Buff is not the best d man or player on the team. That's crazy talk.

They will trade the 30 year old b4 trading the 23 or 24 year old.

I believe it's fans and one was Justin Dunk on cfl.ca but I've seen about 5 mock drafts that have the bombers taking sukh Chung with the 2nd overall pick. Just curious but why is Chung the popular pick for the bombers in these mock drafts

Yup and that's where little Toby wheeler and Stuart fit. All signed for several years still too

I think i see Buff more as a luxury than a necessity. I mean, it would be nice to have him but, if you look at the team and how they are building it, they are building it through youth, draft and develop really, just signed another guy today in jimmy lodge, RW, can score, will look good on the moosecaps next season, but regardless of that, if you look at how they are building the team.. It's through youth, people talk about you build through your centers and D, YUP you sure do.. Scheif,Lowry (2 young centers), Myers,Trouba (2 young d men) Throw in guys like Morrissey who will make people realize that Chiarot is nothing more than a bottom pair d man, throw in a vet like toby and you got yourself a solid top 4 without buff, Heck, even right now this team is winning without buff, They have looked amazing the last 3 games without buff, you don't need buff to win. Buff is a luxury, he's not a necessity and reality might just be that when this young team (oh yeah, they are very young) is actually ready to compete for real, not just take a wild card spot but to legit compete and contend year in year out, guys like Buff,Ladd even, they probably won't be here to see that. This team isn't being built around Ladd and Buff, they are being built around the scheifs,lowrys,troubas,myers, the young guys, i could throw in ehlers, morrissey, petan, guys like that. I guess the hockey news there ran a story about how the winnipeg jets will be stanley cup champs in 2019, nice story but thats what 4 years away? Buff will be almost 35, really think he's the guy they are going to keep over the young guys like myers and trouba? Man, trading buff when his value is the highest would get you something good in return, if Keith Yandle whose contract expires at the same times buff does gets you a 1st and a prospect like duclair,Buff would get you at least that and in the long term, cuz that's what this is about, it's about 2 3 4 5 seasons from now, that helps you more than buff does. Buff is a popular player, he's a good player, he's not one of the best in the league tho, heck, he's not even our own best player, goes MIA for way too long at times, do you pay him like an elite d man or do you trade him this off season when his value is high and get a haul and a half that will help you in a few seasons when you are ready to legit compete. Like it or not, this team, it might make the playoffs (i think they do) but they might not, what if they don't? Gonna try again next year with the same cast of characters that haven't gotten it done for the last 4 or 5 years now? Buff is a good player tho, but he's in that age group where, well, it doesn't really fit in to what the Jets are building actually. I'll take Myers and Trouba in their early 20's over almost 30 year old buff any day. Yup, you build through centers and d man and that's exactly what Chevy has been quietly doing the last couple years (scheif,lowry,trouba,myers) That is your new core right there. The core that will take us to places that we have never been before really, that's the core plus ehlers, morrissey and a couple others that will make us legit contenders year in year out. Let's not pretend that this Jets team has been nothing but average the last few years, this year, they are better than average for sure but... it's really the first year since they have been here that they have been, normally at this time of the Jets past few seasons, we are all talking about who we are taking at the draft with our top 10 pick again. Jets have the best ranked prospect pool in all of hockey they say, what a job Chevy has done really, guy gets blasted for doing nothing but all he did was build the best prospect pool in the league and make the biggest trade in the last 5 years. The new core, that's what we all about, Those are the guys that we will win with, those are the guys that will take us from competing for a wild card spot to competing for a stanley cup and 1st in our division. In a perfect world, yup buff,ladd, stafford,frolik, they all sign new deals and the young guys get their extensions and it's all happy happy joy joy but in the salary cap world that the Jets live in, it don't work like that. You have to make choices and they are tough ones, What to do with Buff is a tough choice, it's not an easy one, but... it's a choice that Chevy will have to make soon, probably this summer, can't lose the guy for nothing if he isn't willing to extend right and can't overpay because you are gonna have to pay your young core some big money soon too. All in all, I'd take the captain over Buff. Only because our LW depth isn't as strong as your RHD depth.

They don't really need to extend them this summer, they aren't really priorities, the UFAs are the priorities and I think It's likely that one of Buff or Ladd are moved, i'm leaning towards Buff just because the Jets already have 2 top 4 RHD men, they don't need 3 and not for what it would cost to extend Buff. Buff is a popular player but other popular players have come and gone in winnipeg jets history and the team has been fine. I'd like to sign them both to extensions but.. if they want too much money or term, then it's best to move on cuz eventually the real building blocks will need extensions too, guys like Scheif,Lowry, Trouba, gonna say guys like Ehlers Morrissey and the sorts also. Signing both Ladd and Buff to long term big money contracts is not smart business.

Topic over now. Annonymous goofball? Lol. You are naive if you think the papers would tell you about guys going to rehab.

Well said. Sums it up pretty nicely now hopefully this topic can go away. But i do think it's a bit naive to think that these guys aren't out there doing some stuff that would make you shake your head. It's just, i guess, kids look up to these people, big time, they are heros to thousands of kids, they do all this good stuff, do work with charities, sick kids etc, I mean good for them right but... it doesn't mean they are the greatest people in the world. Not comparing hockey players to Hells Angels but... Just cuz Hells Angels do work with charities and sick kids doesn't mean they aren't out there killing people also.

Didn't really hear anything relating to stafford not wanting to sign here, to be honest, it sounded like he was very happy to be here and things couldn't have gone better really. I think they sign him and i think both sides will want it to get done. Not sure about Frolik, depends on what he is asking for really. As for Little Buff and Perreault, Little and Buff will probably be back Saturday, Perreault probably not till april.

Plus Vancouver Calgary and LA are basically fighting for spots in the Pacific division too, Jets would be 2nd or tied for 2nd in that division right now.

The Jovon one is funny. Not exactly Mr consistent

Keep winning and tiebreaker is irrelevant. Not sure when the last time a season ended for a team because of a tiebreaker. Never?

Stafford scheif wheeler were in beast mode tonight. Gotta sign stafford

He stands 6'5" and weighs 215 lbs. Could be a FB for the Bombers. He worked out as a receiver and will do the same for the esks

I'm hearing from people that it probably will be moose if short term. Something else if it's long term. By that I mean if it's just 1 or 2 seasons it will be moose if long term it won't be