If you could add one player, who would it be?

[Gnova]

Ovi.

For the Jets puck in net >>>>> everything else.

 

[allan5oh]

My reasonable contribution:

Coburn. We may be able to pry him from Philly. Coburn and bogosian would feed off each other and be the nastiest shutdown pair in the league.

Thomas. We can sign him using the bonus cushion. Would be interesting.

 

[BizZombie]

King Henrik Lundquist

 

[TCsmyth]

Burmistrov







Kidding guys...kidding

 

[garret9]

2 most important positions and also Jets largest weakness:
1C
"True" 1 G

Youth prefered to fit with build. Best candidates Taveres and Rask.

 

[WHT]

Toews, Perry, Rinne .... I'm not factoring in age.

 

[Gm0ney]

I think Rask in goal would immediately make the Jets a playoff+ team.

A true elite 1C can't do it all. even though Kane-Giroux-Wheeler and Ladd-Scheifele-Little certainly sounds like a solid Top 6...you're not going very deep if Pavelec's keeps posting < .910. Rask was .940 in the playoffs and .929 in the regular season. .929 applied to Pavelec's SA last year would have meant 30 less goals against (Pav allowed 119 GA on 1251 shots, a theoretical Rask would've allowed 89 GA).

 

[Duke749]

Just another thought, but I wonder what this team would look like with Lundqvist or Rinne between the pipes?

An elite 2-way #1 center or a goalie in the mold of one of those two would be the absolute biggest game changer. In one sense though, making Little expendable could bring a pretty solid goalie. But that would mean we'd have to wait for Scheif to solitify his role as a #2 center.

 

[Jetsman]

I'd add Hainsey, and say he was a great positional D man and say he brings leadership and saves hungry children, but I'm sure we couldn't afford him.

Thank you for that humour. It had been tiring lately battling the Hainsey worshippers in other threads. You must have actually played high level hockey!

 

[garret9]

Thank you for that humour. It had been tiring lately battling the Hainsey worshippers in other threads. You must have actually played high level hockey!

I love these ideas:

all opinions that do not agree with me must be because they don't know the sport
you need to play a sport high level in order to understand the game or be able to evaluate it's nuances

 

[Jesus Christ Horburn]

Paul Stastny

 

[Jetsman]

I love these ideas:

all opinions that do not agree with me must be because they don't know the sport
you need to play a sport high level in order to understand the game or be able to evaluate it's nuances

Obvious sarcasm, but I don't necessarily agree.

I have developed a healthy respect for the detailed statistical analysis you bring to the table and dare say I have learned quite a few things from you.

My insight comes from playing and coaching at the junior levels. I submit my opinions based on the "eye test" of watching the action. This includes not just following the puck carrier, but the other players on the ice as well and anticipating where the puck should be going next versus where it actually goes.

Some of the others in those Hainsey forums are out to lunch, however, and clearly don't have a sniff as I often feel I'm arguing with a 13 year old. That's all.

 

[garret9]

Obvious sarcasm, but I don't necessarily agree.

I have developed a healthy respect for the detailed statistical analysis you bring to the table and dare say I have learned quite a few things from you.

My insight comes from playing and coaching at the junior levels. I submit my opinions based on the "eye test" of watching the action. This includes not just following the puck carrier, but the other players on the ice as well and anticipating where the puck should be going next versus where it actually goes.

Some of the others in those Hainsey forums are out to lunch, however, and clearly don't have a sniff as I often feel I'm arguing with a 13 year old. That's all.

It actually had nothing to do with statistical evaluations versus eye-test.... even though no one does just the former exclusively. Not sure where that came from.

I think many often under estimate the knowledge and experience that some of our fellow posters here have.

 

[Flair Hay]

Any other team besides Chicago would never say Toews but it would just be too perfect.

 

[Jetsman]

It actually had nothing to do with statistical evaluations versus eye-test.... even though no one does just the former exclusively. Not sure where that came from.

I think many often under estimate the knowledge and experience that some of our fellow posters here have.

I agree with that and I wasn't creating a value comparison between the two perspectives.

If I could choose one player, it would be Toews. Faceoff and shootout specialist, strong penalty killer, gifted offensively, and an incredibly focused hard worker from Winnipeg. Hard to beat that.