Winnipeg Jets - Page 403

thebasketballgeek · #**8041** Posted **Jan 9, 2023, 7:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

Hey, don't get me wrong. I would love it if Bowness signed longer term. I just feel like he was ready to retire this year and True North convinced him into a 2 year deal. I'm not so sure he wants to do more than 2 years, but you never know.

Winning changes everything. A guy who has been around the game as long as Bones has gets a team to buy in to the level the Jets have bought in that’s hard to give up.

At this point they’d probably run through brick walls for him.

wags_in_the_peg · #**8042** Posted **Jan 9, 2023, 8:29 PM**

revealed on the weekend that Wheeler played the 3rd period with a "split testicle" before he had surgery, that hurts just to type it. Hockey players a different breed

esquire · #**8043** Posted **Jan 9, 2023, 8:44 PM**

Wheeler deserves a spot in the Hall of Fame just for that legendary demonstration of toughness.

dmacc · #**8044** Posted **Jan 9, 2023, 9:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Wheeler deserves a spot in the Hall of Fame just for that legendary demonstration of toughness.

It reminds me of Alex Edler when he played for Vancouver in the playoffs and he took a similar shot and completed his shift... as much as one can in that instance.

BlackDog204 · #**8045** Posted **Jan 10, 2023, 12:47 AM**

In bones, we trust...

BlackDog204 · #**8046** Posted **Jan 10, 2023, 12:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by thebasketballgeek

Winning changes everything. A guy who has been around the game as long as Bones has gets a team to buy in to the level the Jets have bought in that’s hard to give up.

At this point they’d probably run through brick walls for him.

Unfortunately, that was not the case for our last coach..

thurmas · #**8047** Posted **Jan 10, 2023, 1:23 AM**

I wish they could play roll the bones by rush at games just before a line change would be pretty cool.

bomberjet · #**8048** Posted **Jan 10, 2023, 2:05 AM**

Its obvious and has been for a while that coaching was the issue. Florida is crumbling. Glad Bowness has got the team flying again!

#Trotzwatch still on.

The Jabroni · #**8049** Posted **Jan 10, 2023, 3:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

revealed on the weekend that Wheeler played the 3rd period with a "split testicle" before he had surgery, that hurts just to type it. Hockey players a different breed

Even massive wrenches get damaged and need to be repaired.

Thank goodness he already has kids. I'm sure his wife is glad anyway.

CoryB · #**8050** Posted **Jan 10, 2023, 2:29 PM**

Re Trotz it cannot be said enough or ignored that he is from Manitoba. With True North wanting the Jets to be a deep playoff threat and Trotz having coached to a cup win I think there will always be an eye on him coming to coach the home town team in hopes of winning a cup. It really isn't all that different than the home town kid that goes on to being a first round pick dreaming of winning the cup with the home town pro team.

BlackDog204 · #**8051** Posted **Jan 11, 2023, 1:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by CoryB

Re Trotz it cannot be said enough or ignored that he is from Manitoba. With True North wanting the Jets to be a deep playoff threat and Trotz having coached to a cup win I think there will always be an eye on him coming to coach the home town team in hopes of winning a cup. It really isn't all that different than the home town kid that goes on to being a first round pick dreaming of winning the cup with the home town pro team.

I suppose we acquired the next best thing. Bowness was involved in the original Jets organisation from 1980-89, first as a player, then as a coach for their AHL team, before becoming the replacement coach in 1989, once Dan Maloney was fired.

From then on, Bowness would have stays in Boston, Ottawa, New York, Phoenix, Vancouver, Tampa Bay, and finally the Dallas Stars.

bomberjet · #**8052** Posted **Jan 16, 2023, 3:29 PM**

1st Place in the west!

Gotta time stamp that when we can haha

Biff · #**8053** Posted **Jan 16, 2023, 3:38 PM**

2nd most wins in the NHL behind Boston.

esquire · #**8054** Posted **Jan 16, 2023, 3:42 PM**

It's starting to feel like 2018 again

thebasketballgeek · #**8055** Posted **Jan 16, 2023, 4:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

It's starting to feel like 2018 again

I wonder who this years Stastny will be?

Some interesting pieces in Phoenix, Vancouver, and Chicago that I’m sure Chevy is doing his due diligence on.

pspeid · #**8056** Posted **Jan 16, 2023, 6:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

It's starting to feel like 2018 again

Isn't it though? Maybe even better. One thing that stands out for me so far this year (and I really hope it continues) is that the Jets seem to be avoiding their last minute/last second collapses that have plagued them seemingly forever. If the Jets had a one-goal lead going into the last five minutes of a game it seemed no better than 50-50 that they would be able to hold onto it. Now I don't have to cringe behind the sofa each time the opposition touches the puck.