I think it's time we spun our playoff hopes into it's own thread.

2023.03.22

Central
 DAL 90 
 MIN 90
 COL 88 
Wild Card
 SEA 85 
 WPG 83 
Just Not Good Enuf
 CAL 79  
 NSH 78 

Edited March 28, 20232 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

Tonight’s key games:

WPG @ Ana

MIN @ Phi

SEA @ NAS

Veg @ CAL

Pit @ DAL

2023.03.23 <- Good poker number

Central 
DAL 92 +2 
MIN 91 +1
COL 88 
Wild Card 
SEA 86 +2 
WPG 85 +2
Just Not Good Enuf 
NSH 80 +2
CAL 79  
  

Edited March 24, 20232 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

15 hours ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

Tonight’s key games:

WPG @ Ana  3-2

MIN @ Phi  4-5 (SO)

SEA @ NAS  1-2 (SO)

Veg @ CAL  3-2

Pit @ DAL  2-3

Stupid 3 point games. 

Edited March 24, 20232 yr by TrueBlue4ever

You should really add games remaining or games played. 

is Seattle playing tonight?

On 2023-03-23 at 10:53 PM, FrostyWinnipeg said:

2023.03.23 <- Good poker number

Central 
DAL 92 +2  (10)
MIN 91 +1. (10)
COL 88  (12)
Wild Card 
SEA 86 +2 (11)
WPG 85 +2  (9)
Just Not Good Enuf 
NSH 80 +2  (12)
CAL 79  (9)

(games left in parentheses)
  

There you go. 

Tonight’s key game:

Ari @ COL 

 

Edited March 25, 20232 yr by TrueBlue4ever

[xx] = Games Remaining aka JCon request

2023.03.24

Central 
DAL 92   [10]
MIN 91   [10]
COL 90 +2 [11]
Wild Card 
SEA 86   [11]
WPG 85   [9]
Just Not Good Enuf 
NSH 80   [12]
CAL 79   [9]

Edited March 25, 20232 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

Today’s key games:

WPG @ LA

SEA @ NAS

SJ @ CAL

Chi @ MIN

Van @ DAL

 

22 hours ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

There you go. 

Tonight’s key game:

Ari @ COL  1-3

 

Arizona officially eliminated from playoff contention last night with the loss. 

14 hours ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

Today’s key games:

WPG @ LA  1-4

SEA @ NAS  7-2

SJ @ CAL  3-5

Chi @ MIN  1-3

Van @ DAL  3-1

Sunday’s key games:

COL @ Ari

Tor @ NAS

2023.03.25

Central 
MIN 93 +2 [9]
DAL 92 +2 [9]
COL 90  [11]
Wild Card 
SEA 88 +2 [10]
WPG 85   [8]
Just Not Good Enuf 
CAL 81 +2 [8]
NSH 80   [11]

Notes
Jets/Flames/Kraken have only 2 games in the next 7 days. 

Edited March 26, 20232 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

7 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

2023.03.25

Central 
MIN 93 +2 [9]
DAL 92 +2 [9]
COL 90  [11]
Wild Card 
SEA 88 +2 [10]
WPG 85   [8]
Just Not Good Enuf 
CAL 81 +2 [8]
NSH 80   [11]

Notes
Jets/Flames/Kraken have only 2 games in the next 7 days. 

Winnipeg and Calgary both play Tuesday and Friday. Seattle plays Monday, Thursday, Saturday. Nashville makes up two of its games in hand this week playing today, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. 

11 hours ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

Sunday’s key games:

COL @ Ari

Tor @ NAS

Good lord I have to cheer for the Leafs today…  the self hate is going to be tough to shake.

3 minutes ago, BomberBall said:

Good lord I have to cheer for the Leafs today…  the self hate is going to be tough to shake.

Re-open the “Your Hate Goes Here” thread!

Just apply the Sun Tzu philosophy: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. (Source questionable, the phrase has been attributed to many different people)

1 hour ago, BomberBall said:

Good lord I have to cheer for the Leafs today…  the self hate is going to be tough to shake.

How did it come to this? 😁

2 hours ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

Re-open the “Your Hate Goes Here” thread!

Just apply the Sun Tzu philosophy: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. (Source questionable, the phrase has been attributed to many different people)

just bumped it

Knock Schiefele down to the third line play Lowry and PLD a ton...take Schiefele off the PP1, time to shake this guy up,he ain't scoring and he doesn't hit...or play well defensively. Why is he still getting 20 min a game and PP 1?

3 hours ago, BomberBall said:

Good lord I have to cheer for the Leafs today…  the self hate is going to be tough to shake.

Just to help with nuance, hoping the Leafs win is no where near the same as cheering for the Leafs to win.

 

1 hour ago, bb1 said:

Knock Schiefele down to the third line play Lowry and PLD a ton...take Schiefele off the PP1, time to shake this guy up,he ain't scoring and he doesn't hit...or play well defensively. Why is he still getting 20 min a game and PP 1?

The guy has 38 goals. Lowry has 11 goals, that's why. 

20 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

The guy has 38 goals. Lowry has 11 goals, that's why. 

But … in the last month or so Lowry has scored more goals than Mark 😁

Winnipeg……where the back-up QB and the 3rd line 8 goals a year centre are more popular than the stars. 

38 minutes ago, IC Khari said:

But … in the last month or so Lowry has scored more goals than Mark 😁

True but who is the real goal scorer here, it's not Lowry. Earlier this season, he had a drought as well. Players go through that. You can't keep a 40 goal scorer on the bench or off the first PP unit.

17 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

Winnipeg……where the back-up QB and the 3rd line 8 goals a year centre are more popular than the stars. 

The Jets organization is so ****** up thanks to our owner & GM it's just sad. I used to be a real fan. Admit I don't know as much about hockey as football but I'd get excited the season was on. Now, I just don't give a damn as nothing ever changes. Nothing. We do the same thing every year that fails. And the GM who does & should have hit the road two years ago gets rewarded with a new contract. 

Edited March 26, 20232 yr by SpeedFlex27

1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

The guy has 38 goals. Lowry has 11 goals, that's why. 

O goals in the last what 10 and looks totally disinterested....something has to give. I know Lowry is limited offensively but he hits and is tough to play against. Scheifele right now is killing us on both sides of the rink.

13 minutes ago, bb1 said:

O goals in the last what 10 and looks totally disinterested....something has to give. I know Lowry is limited offensively but he hits and is tough to play against. Scheifele right now is killing us on both sides of the rink.

Like we said Scheifle is a goal scorer. Lowry is not.  

Sad reality is Winnipeg is a place very few want to play, so draft and develop (and overpay early if you want to lock in long term) is the only way to build the team. On that end Cheveldayoff and the scouts have actually done a good job. Good drafts and got Scheifele, Hellebuyck, Ehlers and Connor on team-friendly contracts compared to their performance. Even Wheeler’s current deal, as a “we owe him a veteran overpay after so many years of value” contract, has not been a bad overpay until the second half of this season, and the salary cap freeze due to the pandemic helped make it worse than it would have been. But think of how many players did not want to sign long term here. Kane, Trouba, Laine, Copp, Hayes, Stastny, now Stanley and Dubois. This team will always play with one hand tied behind its back compared to the Tampa’s, Vegas’s, New York’s, LA’s, Toronto’s and Montreal’s of the world. A shake-up is absolutely needed, but those who want to blow it up and sell all the stars think it will be a quick fix - it won’t. And those same fans will be the first to gripe next year and the year after when we are a bottom feeder (and will be for about 5 years if we go full re-build) and will want to dump their season tickets. In a 32 team league, you don’t go from also-ran to Cup favourite in one summer. 

As I said before, first move is to figure out a long term extension for Hellebuyck. Everything else flows from what that contract size will be and what else it allows us to do. Second step is to figure out definitively what is happening with Dubois. Figure out your line on the sand on a long term deal dollar value, and if he says no matter what he wants to go to free agency, move him this summer. If he signs here, move Scheifele. If Dubois is gone, you are kind of forced to keep Scheifele, as you will have no top line centre otherwise (barring a centre-for-centre trade). From there, figure out the locker room culture and repair it (if Wheeler is disliked because he’s a hard ass on other players, frankly I say the entitled young’uns are the problem and not a taskmaster captain who sacrificed both testicles blocking shots and expects the same commitment from others - but I am not in the locker room so I don’t know more than any other armchair critic what the real story is).