-Establish and lock up a core of tightly-knit players that work well together on the ice and in the room
-Put together a team that players want to come to because the on-ice product is incredible, despite what the actual city offers or doesn’t offer
-There needs to be more to the in-game experience than just fucking t-shirt cannons and mascots that drum
-Pick a captain that can command the room (Adam Lowry is my choice)
-Don’t lose in the first round
Boom!
RedTheDopeKing
Don’t lose?
halo-st
Good article honestly. Seems like common sense but I guess it isnt to cheveldayoff.
I know Winnipeg is always going to be in tough when it comes to luring players to play here. It just means developing them to play the game the right way is at the forefront.
It’s Something they have failed pretty badly on with this group. They play more of a pond hockey style game. Very unorganized and sloppy most nights.
shieldwolfchz
Get people who do more than one thing, all of the jets top players are really good at the cycle, both on offense and defense, but no one, except for Lowry, seems to know what to do once the puck is turned over. This basically means the the jets’ transition game is garbage and easily exploitable.
It’s actually really impressive how many goals seem to be scored against the jets on odd man rushes or after the jets gain control of the puck in their own zone.
shieldwolfchz
Get people who do more than one thing, all of the jets top players are really good at the cycle, both on offense and defense, but no one, except for Lowry, seems to know what to do once the puck is turned over. This basically means the the jets’ transition game is garbage and easily exploitable.
It’s actually really impressive how many goals seem to be scored against the jets on odd man rushes or after the jets gain control of the puck in their own zone.
skilzkid
Biggest takeaway – CHANGE THE CULTURE. Forwards that don’t forecheck (55), ship em. Wanna parlez francais avec les Habs? Au revoir. I’d also say get rid of Wheeler, but it might just be easier to keep him and let Bones tear him a new one.
Leburgerpeg
Colorado picked in the top 3 three times in five years. Hit big on a number 10 pick in Rantanen, and two number 4s in Makar and Byram. Then they fleeced the Islanders for Toews.
Tampa got Stamkos and Hedman in back to back drafts at 1 and 2 them a couple years later hit an absolute home run at 58 with Kucherov and a couple years after that got Point and Cirelli in the 70s in their drafts. Not to mention vasilevsky.
The long and short of it to have long runs of success it sure helps to be bad for 5 or 6 years and then luck out and catch the best player in a draft class somehow in the second and third rounds.
Great systems only work with great talent. It’s not the analytics that they’re rounding their roster out with so much as just somehow finding generational talents that stay develop and stick around for a decade or more. Then the players on the fringe of your roster don’t mean as much.
The Jets had the pieces up front but didn’t have the elite defencemen that the cited teams found to round it out. Now the forwards have stalled in development (55, 81), aged out (26), or moved on or will shortly (29, 80). Morrissey is very good – but he’s not Hedman, or Chara, or McAvoy, or Makar, or Toews and until the Jets put together a roster with a true #1 center and a true #1 D at the same time they’ll like never be able to enjoy the sustained success of Boston, Tampa, or Colorado. Might be able to go the St Louis route and snag one cup before going back to being middling though which honestly I’d take in a heart beat.
Leajane1980
Be am American based team.
VHrip
Jets lack depth. They have some good young players that are 3rd 4th liners but aren’t there yet. All three teams above drafted well but made trades for depth.
jambo313
Things would have been a lot different if Byfuglien hadn’t disappeared with no notice, Trouba was willing to stay, Little’s career wasn’t cut short.
It’s a lot of what-ifs, but I can’t totally blame Chevy for where we are at right now.
Scooterguy-
Big disadvantage to be in Canada with our taxes and weather. Even bigger disadvantage to be in the Peg. This can only be overcome by drafting and developing. I’m not sure what the league could ever do to address this. Also surprised the article didn’t touch on this either.
freshstart102
Considering all those teams lost in the 1st round, probably not much other than playing hard all year with grit like Boston and Tampa get you somewhere and having speed and skill like Colorado gets you places too BUT those teams show the Jets that you need to be more like the Florida Panthers. What a gutsy move by their GM tinkering with a President’s Choice winner and trading huge skill instead for skill with grit, obviously recognizing their shortfall and its paying dividends. Chevy probably could have got Tkachuk for Scheifele too. Not saying that would have had the same effect or that the Jets should have done that but that’s the level of trade made in Florida.
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Git gud primarily.
-Establish and lock up a core of tightly-knit players that work well together on the ice and in the room
-Put together a team that players want to come to because the on-ice product is incredible, despite what the actual city offers or doesn’t offer
-There needs to be more to the in-game experience than just fucking t-shirt cannons and mascots that drum
-Pick a captain that can command the room (Adam Lowry is my choice)
-Don’t lose in the first round
Boom!
Don’t lose?
Good article honestly. Seems like common sense but I guess it isnt to cheveldayoff.
I know Winnipeg is always going to be in tough when it comes to luring players to play here. It just means developing them to play the game the right way is at the forefront.
It’s Something they have failed pretty badly on with this group. They play more of a pond hockey style game. Very unorganized and sloppy most nights.
Get people who do more than one thing, all of the jets top players are really good at the cycle, both on offense and defense, but no one, except for Lowry, seems to know what to do once the puck is turned over. This basically means the the jets’ transition game is garbage and easily exploitable.
It’s actually really impressive how many goals seem to be scored against the jets on odd man rushes or after the jets gain control of the puck in their own zone.
Get people who do more than one thing, all of the jets top players are really good at the cycle, both on offense and defense, but no one, except for Lowry, seems to know what to do once the puck is turned over. This basically means the the jets’ transition game is garbage and easily exploitable.
It’s actually really impressive how many goals seem to be scored against the jets on odd man rushes or after the jets gain control of the puck in their own zone.
Biggest takeaway – CHANGE THE CULTURE. Forwards that don’t forecheck (55), ship em. Wanna parlez francais avec les Habs? Au revoir. I’d also say get rid of Wheeler, but it might just be easier to keep him and let Bones tear him a new one.
Colorado picked in the top 3 three times in five years. Hit big on a number 10 pick in Rantanen, and two number 4s in Makar and Byram. Then they fleeced the Islanders for Toews.
Tampa got Stamkos and Hedman in back to back drafts at 1 and 2 them a couple years later hit an absolute home run at 58 with Kucherov and a couple years after that got Point and Cirelli in the 70s in their drafts. Not to mention vasilevsky.
The long and short of it to have long runs of success it sure helps to be bad for 5 or 6 years and then luck out and catch the best player in a draft class somehow in the second and third rounds.
Great systems only work with great talent. It’s not the analytics that they’re rounding their roster out with so much as just somehow finding generational talents that stay develop and stick around for a decade or more. Then the players on the fringe of your roster don’t mean as much.
The Jets had the pieces up front but didn’t have the elite defencemen that the cited teams found to round it out. Now the forwards have stalled in development (55, 81), aged out (26), or moved on or will shortly (29, 80). Morrissey is very good – but he’s not Hedman, or Chara, or McAvoy, or Makar, or Toews and until the Jets put together a roster with a true #1 center and a true #1 D at the same time they’ll like never be able to enjoy the sustained success of Boston, Tampa, or Colorado. Might be able to go the St Louis route and snag one cup before going back to being middling though which honestly I’d take in a heart beat.
Be am American based team.
Jets lack depth. They have some good young players that are 3rd 4th liners but aren’t there yet. All three teams above drafted well but made trades for depth.
Things would have been a lot different if Byfuglien hadn’t disappeared with no notice, Trouba was willing to stay, Little’s career wasn’t cut short.
It’s a lot of what-ifs, but I can’t totally blame Chevy for where we are at right now.
Big disadvantage to be in Canada with our taxes and weather. Even bigger disadvantage to be in the Peg. This can only be overcome by drafting and developing. I’m not sure what the league could ever do to address this. Also surprised the article didn’t touch on this either.
Considering all those teams lost in the 1st round, probably not much other than playing hard all year with grit like Boston and Tampa get you somewhere and having speed and skill like Colorado gets you places too BUT those teams show the Jets that you need to be more like the Florida Panthers. What a gutsy move by their GM tinkering with a President’s Choice winner and trading huge skill instead for skill with grit, obviously recognizing their shortfall and its paying dividends. Chevy probably could have got Tkachuk for Scheifele too. Not saying that would have had the same effect or that the Jets should have done that but that’s the level of trade made in Florida.