GDT: Winnipeg Jets @ Phoenix Coyotes | 7PM PDT | FSA+

[CC96]

If it wasn't for the added revenue that the owners get for playoffs, I'd be all for trying to get a top 10 pick.

Same.

 

[HowlofRevel]

Just looking at Ribiero's contract/NMC on Capgeek is making me physically ill.

 

[Muppet]

Geez, you end up with a result like this, and then you play L.A tomorrow.. that's going to be interesting.

 

[Summer Rose]

Geez, you end up with a result like this, and then you play L.A tomorrow.. that's going to be interesting.

Knowing this team, we'll beat LA 3-0 tomorrow.

Then we'll lose to Edmonton on Friday.

 

[rt]

Knowing this team, we'll beat LA 3-0 tomorrow.

Then we'll lose to Edmonton on Friday. Despite us going into the 3rd with a 3 goal lead)

Fixed.

 

[Summer Rose]

Fixed.

You are correct.

 

[_Del_]

To me that wild game said it all. Had playoffs in the bag if they played that game. Dallas kicked the heck out of capitals. They want it.

Ding, Ding

 

[ClassLessCoyote]

**** the Wheatkings

 

[Bandit34]

Erat - 1 point in 11 games with us. Damn, we are stuck paying 4.5 million for him next year.

Edit: Okay I lied. 2.25 according to cap geek, but still...

 

[WJF]

Tippet said in his presser that it was "tight game" a "game of inches".

I have one question for coach Tippet: Why wasn't the Dallas - Washington game (where Dallas beat the Caps 5 - 0 IN Washington). Why wasn't that a "game of inches," a "tight, tight" game??

Too many excuses from this coach.

 

[IPreferPi]

No. Clean house.

Roster players I'm somewhat attached to:
Doan
Hanzal
Boedker
Vermette
McMillan
OEL
Michalek
Murphy
Gormley
Stone(borderline)
Summers(borderline)

Guys I'm not particularly attached to(move for right deal):
Yandle
Morris
Schlemko
Ribeiro
Erat
Vrbata
Korpikoski
Klinkhammer
Moss
Chipchura
Halpern
Bissonnette
Smith
Greiss

Areas of need:
Players who give a ****
Balls

Add Yandle and Vrby to the first category for me. Maybe Smitty since he's been stellar since Feb. 1 and is in general a balls-y guy.

But other than that, cosigned, especially with the bolded. Maloney really needs to take a woodchipper to this roster in the offseason, Fargo-style.

 

[Stars99Lobo37]

Tippet said in his presser that it was "tight game" a "game of inches".

I have one question for coach Tippet: Why wasn't the Dallas - Washington game (where Dallas beat the Caps 5 - 0 IN Washington). Why wasn't that a "game of inches," a "tight, tight" game??

Too many excuses from this coach.

Because Washington is an awful team that was turning the puck over the entire game. The 5-0 score could've easily been 8 or 9-0 the way the Caps played last night. Jets at least played like they cared.

 

[Jakey53]

No. Clean house.

Roster players I'm somewhat attached to:
Doan
Hanzal
Boedker
Vermette
McMillan
OEL
Michalek
Murphy
Gormley
Stone(borderline)
Summers(borderline)

Guys I'm not particularly attached to(move for right deal):
Yandle
Morris
Schlemko
Ribeiro
Erat
Vrbata
Korpikoski
Klinkhammer
Moss
Chipchura
Halpern
Bissonnette
Smith
Greiss

Areas of need:
Players who give a ****
Balls

I like your list. I would add Greiss to the first list as I think he is a perfect backup, and maybe potential starter.

 

[Jakey53]

In all 17 years I've been watching Coyotes hockey, gotta say, this is easily the most frustrating team I've ever seen.

Even when TGO was running the show?

 

[Jakey53]

Just looking at Ribiero's contract/NMC on Capgeek is making me physically ill.

Yeah, your supposed first line center playing fourth line winger. This Ribeiro mess reminds me of the Jokinen year.

 

[Jakey53]

QFT; this team had so much promise.

Tippett has really lost the ability to motivate the team any more. The coaching staff can no longer get 60 minutes of consistent output from a group of guys now.

All I have to say is

You blame DT? If the players can't motivate themselves at this time of year, I would point all fingers at the players, especially the vets.

 

[rt]

Let's just build a cloning device...

McMillan-Hanzal-Doan
McMillan-Vermette-Boedker
McMillan-Vermette-Boedker
Bissonnette-Hanzal-Doan
McMillan

OEL-Michalek
OEL-Michalek
OEL-Michalek
Summers

Smith
Greiss

 

[Heldig]

As a Jets 1.0 and 2.0 fan, I have been thinking Evander Kane would be the player Phoenix should try to acquire for Ribeiro's wing.

Is there a deal that could work for both teams?

 

[TickleMeYandle]

My favorite part of the game last night was when WPG got a penalty and they showed the video of the goofy looking guy in the box wearing a Thrashers jersey. Then he quickly put on a Jets jersey. That was funny, but I don't think the majority jets-fan audience appreciated it.

My least favorite part was the everything else part.

Actually, I don't think they played horribly - but they also didn't play with any sort of urgency to get a playoff spot either.

 

[rt]

As a Jets 1.0 and 2.0 fan, I have been thinking Evander Kane would be the player Phoenix should try to acquire for Ribeiro's wing.

Is there a deal that could work for both teams?

Kane's salary goes up to 6mil next season. So Yandle would have to be part of it.

 

[cobra427]

Tippet said in his presser that it was "tight game" a "game of inches".

I have one question for coach Tippet: Why wasn't the Dallas - Washington game (where Dallas beat the Caps 5 - 0 IN Washington). Why wasn't that a "game of inches," a "tight, tight" game??

Too many excuses from this coach.

Ask Adam Oats?

 

[PhoPhan]

Kane's salary goes up to 6mil next season. So Yandle would have to be part of it.

Kane is one of a small handful of players I'd move Yandle for. He makes something happen every time he's on the ice. One of my favorite players in the whole league.

 

[BUX7PHX]

No. I wonder about team chemistry as much as talent. We are not playing greater than the sum of our parts.

This. At the beginning of the year, people were saying how talented this roster was, probably the best collection of talent we have had in the Tippett era.

The problem is that all it takes is for one person to not fall in line, or a situation where players are at each other's throats. This is where the accountability factor has to come in. The only person who seems to hold others accountable (himself included) is Doan, and when he is not participating for a month, it is possible for that message to get drowned out, and replaced by individuals doing their own thing on the ice and not always playing system-hockey.

This is what scares me about Hanzal and Yandle as the A's. Hanzal is not vocal enough, IMO, and where will our accountability be headed when Yandle has no accountability. If either one is our next captain, while it is hard to hold water to Doan as a captain, we will have some serious drop-off in either voicing leadership or accountability.

 

[rt]

Kane is one of a small handful of players I'd move Yandle for. He makes something happen every time he's on the ice. One of my favorite players in the whole league.

Winnipeg has already got Bogosian, Trouba, and Enstrom on D 5v5 and can add Big Buff on the PP.

I don't really see Yandle filling a need, there.

Also, why doesn't that team win more games? They look damn good on paper. Coaching seems better. Goaltending isn't ideal but should be at least passable. I don't get it.

 

[Dirty Old Man]

I thought it seemed like a long time since I had witnessed a shootout in person last night...that game broke a string of 20 straight not going to at least overtime at home.

Also, we fall to 9-1-2 at home vs Canada ... all those furriners are much more tolerable when they have to sit on their hands