Any thought to having a Jets & NHL specific forum here?

 

I know most NHL fans post at HF boards but there isnt a good "local" forum.  The one I used to post out really slipped downhill in the past year and finally unceremoniously banned me for being a trouble maker after I took exception to one of the mods' anti-gay stance (and after being warned by the admin not to "test" him, I pretty much told him he was a joke). 

 

A lot of intelligent and mature sports fans here.  Anyone want to talk hockey?

The Jets roster is too far loaded with AHL crossover players, below average NHL'rs and inferior slightly below average goal=tending.

You could hand that roster to the ghosts of Scotty Bowman, Toe Blake & Mike Babcock and you might end up 2 or 3 points better than what Noel & Maurice coaxed outta them. 

Jet ownership and management get thru potential fan rebellions by being forthright and talkative, sending out Chevldayoff every so often to provide a state of the union. Chipman also emerges from the lair on occasion. 

Even if Maurice signs on for 3 more years the form chart on the Jets is they'll do little other than signing up the odd mid-card free agent (Clitsome & Ellerby types) and draft someone we didn't think they would with their first round selection. 

Virtually the same core will come back next season - perhaps missing a few from the Setoguchi, Jokinen, Wright, THorburn, Tangredi, Pardy, etc. list.

 

Next year I see more of the same. A nice long winning run around the mid-season mark, more injuries mainly due to inferior training and conditioning and the normal swan dive down the stretch. This year Jets will be officially eliminated with 4 or 5 games left on the docket.

 

They might get it down to 3 or 4 next year.