Aftermath.

Thanks to the Jets for sweeping Edmonton and finally being able to knock them out of the playoffs. MANY awful memories of the reverse situation in the 80’s. Only regret is that I wasn’t one of over 15 000 fans in the building to witness it.

Wouldn’t it have been quite the foresight by Chevy to pick up Hamonic this past season? He would have brought a lot more throughout the whole year to this team compared to Benn at the trade deadline.

Stanley will become a is a top 4 d-man next season.

If possible, being able to sign Statsny, and Perreault would be an excellent upgrade to our 4th line. As it stands, trying to lure players of their caliber to Winnipeg is hard to do. Both of these guys like it here.

This team is not far off. If Seth Jones would come to Winnipeg, this would be our off season play.
Jones Morrisey
Pionk Stanley

One can only dream

As for PLD. He is 22. Just came off his most disappointing year. Everyone, including myself, wanted him to step up. To be fair to the kid, I don’t think he played more than 3 games this year with consistent wingers, and was bounced from Center to winger so much that he didn’t know if he was coming or going (take a look at game four when he was bounced to fourth line and was playing Center instead of winger).
Trade, quarantine, injured, and then asked to be top Center replacement in the playoffs!!

He will have a bounce back year as a 2nd Center with consistent wingers.

As for Maurice, he will be back. I would be very surprised if he is fired. Anyone know when last time a coached stepped down if ever?

Enjoy the summer everyone, stay safe and let’s hope this team makes the moves in the off season that can erase some of the disappointments of this past one.

One thing is for sure, I don’t see how any Maurice lover can justify him coming back next season. The guy goes on a 7 game losing streak prior to the playoffs.

The Oilers series he won three 50/50 games. The question regarding that series is were the Jets playing really good, or were both team playing equally bad and we just got really lucky? I never once got the sense that the Jets were dominating them. Maurice likes to rely on luck.

He gets swept by Montreal in a series where he cannot figure out Montreal’s system. Gets beat by an interim coach that has never coached in the NHL before.

It’s also evident that he does not know how to run an offence without Scheifele.

I don’t see how the organization can justify bringing him back or anyone else on that coaching staff. Our PK consistently sucks. Garbage coaching has cost this team at least 3 year of proper player development. I also love how his steady veteran in Nate Thompson cost us that first goal.

The guy has no faith in young players.

Also if Chevy is going to bring in veterans, bring in guys that were actually good. Guys like Bobby Ryan, Corey Perry, Eric Staal. I am sick and tired when every year we get guys like Letestu, Gabriel Bourque, Matt Hendricks, Trevor Lewis, etc…
- TheUltimateJet

No excuse for the Thompson turnover but I will defend the signings... He and Lewis were consistently very successful all year on the PK and any team can use cap minimum players who are effective in a role. I liked the first year of Hendricks, not so much on Letestu and Bourque. Really bad timing for a Thompson gaff but he and Lewis are not the reason we lost the series.

This!
- TheUltimateJet

It's just baffling how someone can be so blind. Eye test, or analytically, Stanley was great this season! I don't know what more the kid needs to do on the ice to prove himself. He hits, fights, and finally dragged the boys back into a game all on his back. Heinola is another potential top 4 D who is sitting on a shelf collecting dust. I thought he was the best D in the U20's this year including Byram and Drysdale.

Conversely, Dubois was a slug. Can't skate, missed every hit, took lazy pims, and for whatever reason, plays 19 minutes a night..... Look at Tatar! Mtl's leading scorer last season, and he was a healthy scratch due to his overall effort and performance. I just don't understand Maurice's logic. He double shifted the Thompson/Lewis line in the 2nd... If you bake a terrible batch of brownies, maybe try a new recipe next time! Complacency got him again.

If Chevy and PoMo don't value Stanley, please send him to my Devs. He is exactly the kind of player that D-core desperately needs. Maybe this is the emotional side and I should give it another day or two, but I don't see how Maurice can possibly come back next season.

What do you mean, Copp is supposed to be a second line center in waiting ...........according to some on this board, lol.

Dubois just never found it which is so weird in that last year, he was killer in the Toronto series, yet this year, almost invisible and no hockey brain. And we thought Torts was the problem.........

How can a team go from such an emotional series against the Oil to this series where they looked like a B team with a good goalie? Its horse poop. The entire coaching staff needs to be changed, serious upgrades on D are required and a little more scoring grit if possible. Lewis and Thomson look like they are in their 40,s let alone 30's.

And, while we are at it, thanks to Thomson for the first goal where he could have easily cleared the zone but decided to make a pass and give it away. Terrible play that was a "repeat" all year long of not be able to clear the zone and then follow it up with another late period goal which was a hallmark of this years poopshow D.
- Old Flopper

Agree with everything you said here, laughable that anyone thinks Copp is a top 6 player, he was propped up by Ehlers early in the season when there was no exhibition games.

Copp looked checked out against Montreal like his buddy Trouba did against the Blues in 18-19.

Totally agree about Thompson and Lewis, they were okay this season but there's so many better and equally cheap 4th liners out there to sign or just play the kids you drafted!!!

Our 4th line was far too easy to play against, they weren't wearing down the Habs defense like the Habs 4th line did to the Jets D!

No excuse for the Thompson turnover but I will defend the signings... He and Lewis were consistently very successful all year on the PK and any team can use cap minimum players who are effective in a role. I liked the first year of Hendricks, not so much on Letestu and Bourque. Really bad timing for a Thompson gaff but he and Lewis are not the reason we lost the series.
- 2.0

No way do I blame them for losing a series. I did not mind their PK, but cringed at their 5v5 play. While they weren't liabilities on the ice, they generated nothing, and some poor guy was always stuck on their offensiveness line. It is only frustrating because Harkins and Gustafsson could have been filling that void with plenty more upside to their game. It's coaching more than anything that I found frustrating. When your PP is -3, you have a major problem. When your 1 and only D that seems to be playing with fire is playing 12 minutes a night, you have a problem. When your top C is suspended, and your prized PLD looks like a Tuesday night beer league'r, you have a problem. The team lacked in plenty areas this series, but the Coach kept throwing out guys who were not competing and sitting guys may have been able to shake things up and change the dynamic. I'm curious to see if PLD has off-season surgery or something to explain his total disappearance. He hasn't been close to mediocre since "the shift" where Torts rightfully sat him the remaining 40+ minutes. This was his chance to shine, and what I saw was a guy who was far and away the worst C in the post-season.