Ducky

If Maurice has lost the room (a crock of BS), shouldn't some of that blame fall on Wheeler, Buff and Scheif? Scheif hasn't had a stellar year but nobody says anything about him on here. He has had a lot of games where he looked like he was skating in sand this year and this is before his "injury" too. Wheeler takes more penalties than anyone besides Thorbs and Buff and nobody says anything about that? Maurice isn't getting fired this year and it doens't matter how big anyone makes their font size on here. We need more consistent goaltending (which we haven't had all year), a better PK which seems to be getting better as of late, and we need better team D. The reason the team played well when all the D men were out a few seasons ago and Buff moved back to D was because the forwards were making a concerted effort to back check and help out the D by slowing up the opponents D but that isn't happening very often. That is on the players....do you think Maurice has suddenly said, "okay, we don't have to back check anymore or get on the puck fast"? As far as people talking about Maurice, a LOT of analysts are talking about the Jets goaltending a lot more than coaching. Everybody needs to be better, this season isn't on one player or group of players or the coach or goalie coach or assistant coaches......it is on ALL of them. Players that I think don't need to pick up their games are... Ehlers Little Laine Armia Morrissey these players have played up to expectations or above but I can't really think of many more that have. It sure isn't any of the 3 wearing letters on their jerseys. We still need patience with this team...they are getting better but there are growing pains...now, there is no reason why we shouldn't come out of AZ with a W tomorrow night.

Here is Serevalli's take on the Jets.... Does he actually think Vegas would take Hutch!!!!!! Status Report: Treading water in the hunt for a West wild-card spot. TradeCentre Trending: Staying the course Top Priority: Expansion draft protection Trade Bait: LW/C Mathieu Perreault, G Ondrej Pavelec, RW Drew Stafford. Scoop: The Jets are happy with their top nine forwards and still have Kyle Connor and Jack Roslovic – both with the Manitoba Moose - on the way. They are well-positioned from No. 1 through five on defence once Tyler Myers returns from injury. Jacob Trouba, seemingly a trade deadline wild card in October, is playing his best hockey ever in Winnipeg. The net belongs to 23-year-old Connor Hellebuyck to see if he can be the guy to carry this team for the next five years. In other words, the Jets aren’t expected to be big shoppers or sellers. Stafford, 31, could be a rental option somewhere but he hasn't been terribly productive with eight points in 28 games. What GM Kevin Cheveldayoff could do is find a new home for Mathieu Perreault and get a return (however small) now for a player they’d likely lose in June’s expansion draft for nothing. That would likely steer Las Vegas into selecting either Michael Hutchinson or Joel Armia, two replaceable players. In addition, Pavelec — who has rebounded after a slow start in the AHL — would cost less than $1.6 million in real salary for the remainder of the season, making him an attractive backup option for a team like Columbus, who could ill-afford a flare up from Sergei Bobrovsky’s wonky groins when it matters most.

Team D means the forwards too. The D were bragging up the forwards for slowing up the D allowing the Jets' D to close the gap on the forwards when we shutout Calgary...Ii didn't see much of that last night. Atomic is right, there are a lot of teams just slightly above us in points that haven't been as injured as us and are struggling. In a normal year, we don't stand a chance of making the post season with our record at this time of the year. Look how poor the division has become. We actually still stand a chance of making the playoffs. Chicago and Minny are doing well but all others are under achieving. Are they going to fire their coaches and change goalies and goalie coaches and assistant coaches? The game is going faster and the Jets are transitioning to a fast game with a LOT of younger players. What do we have 14 players 23 or under? It will take time and patience which none of us fans have. We want to see the draft picks in the NHL yesterday and make the playoffs every year and a rookie goalie play like Dryden and rookie players play like Gretzky and the vets never make mistakes. You know what? I have been lurking a lot of other teams' forums and fans are the same no matter the team. We are bragging about the sabres coach and goalie and they are being crucified on their forums and mentioning how it would be nice to have a goalie like Helle and the Sabres won in spite of Bylsma!!! I am okay with giving Maurice the rest of the season and looking at things in the off-season. The make up of the team needs to be looked at as well as this team needs to make the playoffs next season. Do we need a vet goalie? Do we get help on the 3rd pairing D? Who do we expose to the expansion draft, etc...

I thought Helle was going to have a really good game. He said in the pregame interview that his confidence level was that an all-time high.

busted...

That's only fair seeing as that is all we put in the net every night.

Too bad Laine wasn't playing. He might have netted a couple in a game like that...

23 saves in 30 shots..... screams goaltending to me. Like I said above, if we get .900 sv% we win the game but I guess that is too much to ask. we score 4 goals on 27 shots..... I think the PK is 12 of the last 13 or 92% if I am correct.

They put in 7 in 30 attempts.....if we had a sv% of .900, they only score 3 and we win 4-3.

Would've helped tonight.

I agree with your personnel except Thorbs. Put Staf in his spot and dress Tanev. Switch Armia and Ehlers.

A couple games won't hurt him...like I have said, just take a look....he might surprise, he might not. Put some pressure on Hutch and Helle and move Phillips to the Moose for a couple of games and you can look at him against some better competition too. Not making the playoffs anyway.

There is room on the roster now to call someone up....Tanev and Stu are the only ones in the pressbox. We know what Pavs is, that's why he is with the Mosse....call up Comrie and give him a shot...it won't hurt and might help...some big name goalies had so-so junior careers and had solid careers once called up. edit ... Hutch has a .889 sv% and that is tied for dead last for 47 goalies. I still have faith in Helle and I honestly wouldn't have pulled him at 3 goals but that is me and I understand why he was pulled. I would have gave him more time to see if he could work his way out of it.

I do it after most games...I didn't last game because it was a shutout and I assumed everyone would know it was 1.000... Dam right Jets need a better backup and we should find out if he is on the farm before hiring another one...if he isn't, send him back down and get another one. The 4th goal really hurt the team and I don't blame Hutch for that one as it went off of Enstrom's skate.

Hutch gets the loss because he was in net when the winning goal was scored...glad to see you coming around on waiving Hutch.

Helle sv% .571 Hutch sv% .826 Helle let in 2 soft ones and one that should have been stopped. Hutch was Hutch...plain horrible...hard for a team to come back when the goaltenders are having bad games. Lowry's line was not good and neither were Enstrom and Trouba and Chiarot. What can you do? We got beat by one of the top teams in the league... move on to Arizona and call up Comrie and give him AZ or LA this weekend and one of the b2b games on the 23rd/24th.

Don't expect him to play before San Jose and probably not until after San Jose.

Too busy picking the puck out of their own net.

Better than Hutch's.

When Helle falters we need a backup that isn't a seive. Time to call up call up Comrie.

12 shots on net and 5 goals.. 11 shots on net and 3 goals... not a good night for the goaltenders.

Almost looks like he swore there.

How many times are they going to give the puck away behind their own net?

They should retire James Murphy's number.

Putrid PP.