Scrap the whiteout

[Jets 31]

Not only should the white-out be kept forever the Jets should tell the league they are wearing white for all their home playoff games and they wear the Heritage classics as well . We went how many years without a playoff game in Winnipeg and now that we have made the playoffs 2 years in a row , we need to get rid of it ? Unreal .

 

[DowntownBooster]

No only should the white-out be kept forever the Jets should tell the league they are wearing white for all their home playoff games and they wear the Heritage classics as well . We went how many years without a playoff game in Winnipeg and now that we have made the playoffs 2 years in a row , we need to get rid of it ? Unreal .

Yes, that's a terrific idea.

 

[voyageur]

The Jets are 5-9 at home in the playoffs since they came back from Atlanta with the whiteout.

I think home ice advantage isn't an advantage when you can barely hear your fans. Montreal has home ice advantage, there's a buzz in the building come playoff time. Boston has it. Winnipeg's richest people aren't even hockey fans, I would say, and peasants that are hockey fans can't be heard anymore, because $500 for a hockey game, is about half to a quarter of a pay cheque for a lot of working class heroes that are True hockey fans.

 

[SUX2BU]

Not only should the white-out be kept forever the Jets should tell the league they are wearing white for all their home playoff games and they wear the Heritage classics as well . We went how many years without a playoff game in Winnipeg and now that we have made the playoffs 2 years in a row , we need to get rid of it ? Unreal .

Yeah, good luck in selling that to Bettman and the NHL suits

 

[Tommigun]

The day when the Jets hoist the Stanley Cup in victory I expect a whiteout party in perpetuity in Winnipeg until the sun engulfs the planet in 5 billion years

A polar storm you mean?

 

[cheswick]

The Jets are 5-9 at home in the playoffs since they came back from Atlanta with the whiteout.

The Jets were 3-6 at home in the playoffs prior to the whiteout being implemented.

 

[DowntownBooster]

The Jets were 3-6 at home in the playoffs prior to the whiteout being implemented.

What are you talking about? Fans began wearing white as soon as they made the playoffs for the first time against Anaheim in 2015.

 

[cheswick]

What are you talking about? Fans began wearing white as soon as they made the playoffs for the first time against Anaheim in 2015.

No the Jets made the NHL playoffs for the first time in 1982. The whiteout was started in 1987. The notion was the whiteout makes the jets play poorly at home. The reality is they played poorly at home, prior to the whiteout too.

 

[DowntownBooster]

No the Jets made the NHL playoffs for the first time in 1982. The whiteout was started in 1987. The notion was the whiteout makes the jets play poorly at home. The reality is they played poorly at home, prior to the whiteout too.

Thanks for clarifying that you were including Jets 1.0 as part of the overall record. I vote to keep the whiteout simply based on how much fun it is for the fans.

 

[Jetfaninflorida]

The Whiteout is a tradition. I think we should keep it but the fans need to be really loud like we were in previous years and like are for the Islanders in the playoffs. Speaking of tradition, maybe we should also change the team name to the Winnipeg Victorias. Then we could say that we have won the Stanley Cup a few times.

 

[Hobble]

Thanks for clarifying that you were including Jets 1.0 as part of the overall record. I vote to keep the whiteout simply based on how much fun it is for the fans.

I.E. Correlation =/= Causation

 

[cheswick]

I think home ice advantage isn't an advantage when you can barely hear your fans. Montreal has home ice advantage, there's a buzz in the building come playoff time. Boston has it. Winnipeg's richest people aren't even hockey fans, I would say, and peasants that are hockey fans can't be heard anymore, because $500 for a hockey game, is about half to a quarter of a pay cheque for a lot of working class heroes that are True hockey fans.

I wouldn't qualify someone clearing $2 grand per pay as working class.

 

[Hank Chinaski]

I wouldn't qualify someone clearing $2 grand per pay as working class.

Can’t speak for other fields, but I know most nurses are clearing that bi-weekly. Just your standard RNs as well, not nurse managers or NPs who would be making more. They’d be considered working class, no?

 

[cheswick]

Can’t speak for other fields, but I know most nurses are clearing that bi-weekly. Just your standard RNs as well, not nurse managers or NPs who would be making more. They’d be considered working class, no?

Well there's no set definition of working class, but I wouldn't consider a nurse working class. In a lot of cases working class is referring to those with no post-secondary education working generally manual labour. The median income for someone aged 25-54 in Winnipeg is like $40k. To get $2k clear a pay you're probably looking at over $80k a year. Hardly working class imo.