Player Discussion: Niku

[Jet]

Thanks

Dahlstrom to IR.

I'm talking long term if we ever get healthy

 

[Jet]

When can they keep more guys? What date is that?

I think it's after the tdl but I'm not an expert on cba

 

[Farmboy Patty]

I'm talking long term if we ever get healthy

I wonder how many games per season on average a team has a healthy D corps? Seems like there is always someone hurt...

 

[ps241]

My vote would be to just play Niku in the top 4 for the next 10 games with about 18-20 minutes a night. Right now we have two top 4 spots that need to get filled with bottom pairing assets so ride your 23 year old and let him fight through the ups and downs. That would be treating him just the same as we do Poolman or who ever else is filling the other spot. Those guys are competing but like Niku they are flawed too. Difference is Sami has a gift too.

last night Sami showed what he can do by making two great plays to set up high danger chances (brilliant semi no look to Connor for the Goal and the Sauce to Copp on the doorstep). Try him with Pionk or Morrissey for a while and see what happens with heavier minutes. If it works it’s huge if he struggles is it really materially different than the other current options.

Either way one night at a time for me now as a fan.

 

[KingBogo]

My vote would be to just play Niku in the top 4 for the next 10 games with about 18-20 minutes a night. Right now we have two top 4 spots that need to get filled with bottom pairing assets so ride your 23 year old and let him fight through the ups and downs. That would be treating him just the same as we do Poolman or who ever else is filling the other spot. Those guys are competing but like Niku they are flawed too. Difference is Sami has a gift too.

last night Sami showed what he can do by making two great plays to set up high danger chances (brilliant semi no look to Connor for the Goal and the Sauce to Copp on the doorstep). Try him with Pionk or Morrissey for a while and see what happens with heavier minutes. If it works it’s huge if he struggles is it really materially different than the other current options.

Either way one night at a time for me now as a fan.

Agreed Sami showed he deserves the opportunity to move up the lineup for an extended audition.

 

[Crocket]

I'm for giving him a shot. But I'd rather see a trade for a legit top 4. We have some expendable forwards, and a way to make a deal for a D. I'd include Niku in that trade.

 

[Gabe Kupari]

I'm for giving him a shot. But I'd rather see a trade for a legit top 4. We have some expendable forwards, and a way to make a deal for a D. I'd include Niku in that trade.

Nah. Roslo tho.. But you ain't getting much and the other team gotta take kuli or perreault? Cuz cap?

 

[truck]

My vote would be to just play Niku in the top 4 for the next 10 games with about 18-20 minutes a night. Right now we have two top 4 spots that need to get filled with bottom pairing assets so ride your 23 year old and let him fight through the ups and downs. That would be treating him just the same as we do Poolman or who ever else is filling the other spot. Those guys are competing but like Niku they are flawed too. Difference is Sami has a gift too.

last night Sami showed what he can do by making two great plays to set up high danger chances (brilliant semi no look to Connor for the Goal and the Sauce to Copp on the doorstep). Try him with Pionk or Morrissey for a while and see what happens with heavier minutes. If it works it’s huge if he struggles is it really materially different than the other current options.

Either way one night at a time for me now as a fan.

Same. I was advocating for this in the off-season too. The Jets need to find a top 4 D and Niku is really their only (internal) hope.

Extend the leash. He can't be much worse than what we've seen.

 

[Howard Chuck]

Same. I was advocating for this in the off-season too. The Jets need to find a top 4 D and Niku is really their only (internal) hope.

Extend the leash. He can't be much worse than what we've seen.

Yes, the same thing worked wonders with KC.

 

[heilongjetsfan]

Keep him up or send him down. 7th D, short leash, long leash, pp1.

Whatever Coach Gallant thinks is best.

 

[jefferoni]

Sami finally gets the league-wide recognition he deserves...

 

[JetsUK]

Sami finally gets the league-wide recognition he deserves...

At last some recognition. Kid is easily a 1st-Team All-Star in the National League of Flow.

 

[Stumbledore]

Keep him up or send him down. 7th D, short leash, long leash, pp1.

Whatever Coach Gallant thinks is best.

I see what you did there...

Suppose the decision was left up to you and you had two options: Ice the lineup with the maximum chance of victories, or, Play Niku as much as possible in a variety of positions to fully evaluate his development.

You only get one choice: which option would you take?

 

[JetsUK]

I see what you did there...

Suppose the decision was left up to you and you had two options: Ice the lineup with the maximum chance of victories, or, Play Niku as much as possible in a variety of positions to fully evaluate his development.

You only get one choice: which option would you take?

IDK — seems like a cal se choice, since playing Niku is not incompatible with maximizing the chance of victories and may actually enhance those chances (see the previous game).

Would also suggest that your dichotomy mischaracterizes many posters arguing that Niku should be given a sustained shot in the lineup as advocating that he be played for exclusively developmental reasons — as opposed to some combo of hockey and developmental reasons that ultimately serves the team (as it should).

 

[Skidooboy]

We have to play him. Put him in let him play in his top 4spot.

See what he has, what he does, and let it ride. It's not like the Jets have been playing "Dominant hockey" this year.

I've very carefully been watching our D.
It's a bunch of tweeters and scrubs beyond the top 3

Sbisa should be a PB guy and he's the guy I want on the ice aside from JoMo,Poolman, and Pionk. Play the kid in the top 4and work a trade for one of our young forwards and Perrault.

 

[nobody imp0rtant]

Sami finally gets the league-wide recognition he deserves...

Oh please, if you put that hair on a stick, you would call it a mop. Having the most hair does not make it the best hair. Sorry, Sami. Get a haircut.

 

[Ducky10]

Oh please, if you put that hair on a stick, you would call it a mop. Having the most hair does not make it the best hair. Sorry, Sami. Get a haircut.