Game 39 : @New Year's Meh

[FrostyWinnipeg]

🕕 1800 📺 TSN3
Stats: 15-19-4 @ 18-15-6
Streaks: L2 @ W1
Last Ten: 1-6-3💩 @ 4-4-2

Jets projected lineup
Kyle Connor -- Mark Scheifele -- Gabriel Vilardi
Cole Perfetti -- Vladislav Namestnikov -- Alex Iafallo
Morgan Barron -- Adam Lowry -- Tanner Pearson
Nino Niederreiter -- Jonathan Toews -- Gustav Nyquist
Josh Morrissey -- Dylan DeMelo
Dylan Samberg -- Neal Pionk
Logan Stanley -- Luke Schenn
Eric Comrie
Connor Hellebuyck
Scratched: Colin Miller, Haydn Fleury, Cole Koepke
Injured: None

Maple Leafs projected lineup
Matias Maccelli -- John Tavares -- Bobby McMann
Mathew Knies -- Auston Matthews -- Max Domi
Steven Lorentz -- Scott Laughton -- Calle Jarnkrok
Easton Cowan -- Nicolas Roy -- Nicholas Robertson
Morgan Rielly -- Philippe Myers
Jake McCabe -- Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Simon Benoit -- Troy Stecher
Joseph Woll
Dennis Hildeby
Scratched: Matt Benning, Jacob Quillan
Injured: William Nylander (lower body), Anthony Stolarz (upper body), Chris Tanev (groin), Brandon Carlo (lower body), Dakota Mermis (lower body), Dakota Joshua (kidney)

Status report
The Jets did not hold a morning skate after a 2-1 loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday. ... Matthews will return after missing a 4-0 win against the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday with a lower-body injury... Nylander will miss his third straight game.

 

Edited Thursday at 06:26 PM by FrostyWinnipeg

[BomberBall.]

Schenn is playing too much.  Playing him in back to back games seems like a bad idea.  Namestnikov back at 2C because they haven’t tried that yet…. Oh wait, he’s been there most of the season and has 8 points.  Ugh.

Can we somehow pull out a win tonight?  Losing to the Leafs is a special kind of infuriating.

[iHeart]

Thank god a break from Sportsnet

 

Odd Nino is scratched

Edited yesterday at 12:02 AM by iHeart

[iHeart]

NOW THAT'S MORE LIKE IT! haven't said this in awhile but Andrea is on standby

Edited yesterday at 01:14 AM by iHeart

[BomberBall.]

Weak call on Pionk and of course it ends up in our net on the PP…. And of course it’s in the last couple seconds of the period.

I feel like there’s going to be a hole in my wall if they don’t hang on and get the W tonight.

[iHeart]

Here's something we haven't seen in awhile

 

[captaincanuck12]

Oh my God.  This ******* tram

[captaincanuck12]

How do.you.blow.a 4-1 lead!!!!! 

[bb1]

There is no way to sugar coat it..we have become a bad team..ethier we don't score enough or we let too many in. How could this team fall so far so fast? 

[Piggy 1]

5 minutes ago, captaincanuck12 said:

How do.you.blow.a 4-1 lead!!!!! 

Seems they've mailed it in ,cept 55 maybe. 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

15 minutes ago, captaincanuck12 said:

How do.you.blow.a 4-1 lead!!!!! 

I now know the answer to this question. Gonna score big on the test.

 

 

[captaincanuck12]

Comrie.is beyond useless.  Get rid of him and  Nyquist, Nino, Koepke.

Time to tank.   Bring up Milic, Yaeger, Lambert and Chipper.

What a ******* joke this team is. 

 

1 hour ago, BomberBall. said:

Weak call on Pionk and of course it ends up in our net on the PP…. And of course it’s in the last couple seconds of the period.

I feel like there’s going to be a hole in my wall if they don’t hang on and get the W tonight.

How big is the hole?  Will Chevy's head fit in it?

[Bomberguy]

I was young but I remember the 80-81 Jets (the year before Dale Hawerchuck fell into our hands). I think their record was worse than this team but not my much. Maybe we can get a break and the lottery will fall our way 🤞🏻. Chevy will probably draft a Swede for our first pick anyway 😕

[FrostyWinnipeg]

2 minutes ago, Bomberguy said:

I was young but I remember the 80-81 Jets (the year before Dale Hawerchuck fell into our hands). I think their record was worse than this team but not my much. Maybe we can get a break and the lottery will fall our way 🤞🏻. Chevy will probably draft a Swede for our first pick anyway 😕

Jets 80/81 worst season ever. I mean 29 games in a row without a win.

[Bomberguy]

1 minute ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Jets 80/81 worst season ever. I mean 29 games in a row without a win.

It’s early 😉

[iHeart]

17 minutes ago, captaincanuck12 said:

Comrie is beyond useless.  Get rid of him and  Nyquist, Nino, Koepke.

Time to tank.   Bring up Milic, Yaeger, Lambert and Chipper.

What a ******* joke this team is. 

 

How big is the hole?  Will Chevy's head fit in it?

Remember when the team kept putting him on waivers? I do (I don't think Nino is the problem) yes I do think a Moose is due for a full time promotion

[Bomberguy]

Near the of the Bombers disappointing 2025 season I was thinking “I can hardly wait for hockey season to start so I can feel good about a Winnipeg team again”. Well that blew up quick 😢

Edited yesterday at 03:13 AM by Bomberguy

[FrostyWinnipeg]

Getting these vibes.

[Noeller]

Haven't gone winless in 8 since since Atlanta... Yikes. I'm not a huge hockey guy, so this doesn't bother me so much but jeeze... 

[SpeedFlex27]

3 hours ago, Bomberguy said:

I was young but I remember the 80-81 Jets (the year before Dale Hawerchuck fell into our hands). I think their record was worse than this team but not my much. Maybe we can get a break and the lottery will fall our way 🤞🏻. Chevy will probably draft a Swede for our first pick anyway 😕

They were winless in 30 consecutive games...which is still an NHL record in November, December & January. They went 23 losses & 7 ties. It got so bad that Sports Illustrated sent a writer to follow the team as they were approaching the old NHL record. SI called the team the Loserpeg Jets. But we had the last laugh drafting Dale Hawerchuk.  

[SpeedFlex27]

(I found this on social media today. Back when having a professional hockey team was actually fun. Fourty eight years ago today).

From December 29, 1977 to January 1, 1978, a game between the Soviet National Team and the Winnipeg Jets called the World's Greatest Ice Hockey Game was held at the Yoyogi Stadium in Tokyo.

This is the cover of the program.

The game featured the Soviet National Team's Olympic team members, Vladistav Trejak (GK), Vloajmr Petrov (FW), Valery Kharlamov (FW), Boris Mikhaylov (FW), Valery Vasilyeu (DF), and later enter the NHL Nikolai　Makarov, who later joined the NHL.

The Winnipeg Jets are led by Bobby Hull andAnders Hedberg, Joe Daley, and others.

The significance of this game was to show that there is a major hockey league other than the NHL and that the WHA is an international league with European players in addition to Canadian players. The fact that a single team played a good game against the Soviet National Team also demonstrated the high level of the league.

It was also significant that stationery and other items with WHA character designs were sold in Japan.

 

 

Edited 21 hours ago by SpeedFlex27

[Bomberguy]

Here we go!

[BomberBall.]

13 hours ago, captaincanuck12 said:

Comrie.is beyond useless.  Get rid of him and  Nyquist, Nino, Koepke.

Time to tank.   Bring up Milic, Yaeger, Lambert and Chipper.

What a ******* joke this team is. 

 

How big is the hole?  Will Chevy's head fit in it?

I’m actually proud of myself…. I managed not to completely lose my mind.  And if there was a game for that to happen, last night was it.

[SpeedFlex27]

4 hours ago, BomberBall. said:

I’m actually proud of myself…. I managed not to completely lose my mind.  And if there was a game for that to happen, last night was it.

Fans get numbed by theie team's continued poor performances. I can remember suffering through some very bad Bomber seasons & just sitting staring at the tv screen. Or in myseat at Winnipeg Stadium or the Arena. Also, I was a STH the first 3 seasons the Jets 1.0 were in the NHL. Not many wins those years. When the novelty of seeing teams like Chicago, Montreal, New York Rangers & Islanders, St. Louis, Boston & Detroit wore off, the hockey was brutal. I gave up my seat in the group I was with. I just stopped caring. Going winless in 30 games in 1980-81 did it for me. 

[kelownabomberfan]

4 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Fans get numbed by theie team's continued poor performances. I can remember suffering through some very bad Bomber seasons & just sitting staring at the tv screen. Or in myseat at Winnipeg Stadium or the Arena. Also, I was a STH the first 3 seasons the Jets 1.0 were in the NHL. Not many wins those years. When the novelty of seeing teams like Chicago, Montreal, New York Rangers & Islanders, St. Louis, Boston & Detroit wore off, the hockey was brutal. I gave up my seat in the group I was with. I just stopped caring. Going winless in 30 games in 1980-81 did it for me. 

and yet because of that pain that year we got Dale Hawerchuk.  As a wise person once told me - there is no great loss without some small gain.  You have to look at the long game.  We've ridden this core group for a long time with the Jets and had some good times.  Just like the Bombers have ridden a core group for a long time.  Now comes the pain.  It always does.  But some day, we will rise again.