Mike

Didn't you hear that LT now stands for Legacy Tackle?

Yeah, absolutely agree. In case it wasn't clear to anyone, I wasn't suggesting we can them. I was just saying that IF we were to do it, I'd see no reason for it not to be both. That call is far away from being made at this point in the season though.

I'd toss them both out just for the stand alone reason of this bullshit with the refusal to use an American as a Canadian even though we're allowed to. It's borderline negligent and I know that's not going to sit well with some people but there's a reason we are the only one of nine teams that doesn't use it.

I do actually agree that if one goes, the other should go too. Despite how disjointed it looks in it's execution, the line we've been fed for years is that it's one unit working in unison and every decision they make is made as a team. I don't think Walters deserves to keep his job if O'Shea is let go, if for nothing else than because he's spent too much time allowing what could be his subordinate to have an equal say when it hasn't been or shouldn't be needed.

Nice.

I don't think it gives hope to Canadian teams at all, especially in the case of the Jets. Carolina has advantages that Canadian teams don't have, despite being a small market US team. Yeah, Carolina isn't your first choice if you're an American but they're a well-run franchise with an incredible owner. That goes a long way. A lot of players don't want to play in Canada - full stop, period. Even more players don't want to play in Winnipeg and quite honestly, I think it's time that the franchise took a step back and recognized that it's become an issue of not wanting to play for Chipman + Chevy just as much as it is not wanting to play in the city. Our ownership and front office is awful and I don't want to hear the excuses of "well, it's the toughest job in the NHL." Great, invest in things that will make it easier. We are a draft and develop team who sucks at drafting and sucks even worse at developing. The Jets have done an absolutely pitiful job of recognizing what players on the way up value, which leaves no doubt as to why we easily lead the league in "players asking for a trade" over the past 10 years. Is no one on the Jets waking up to WHY that is happening? I understand the challenges our franchise faces with attracting players but we make it SO much worse on ourselves. We beat the creativity out of almost every young prospect, we make them earn their way through the ranks of a system that forces them to get in line with playing OUR style of hockey while forcing their style out of them, we make them toil in the AHL ranks far too long and then give them inconsistent opportunities with the NHL club alongside low skill players that don't compliment them whatsoever. It's not the "small big city" mentality where we think we hear all the secrets that other teams don't because everyone knows everyone in Winnipeg. It's the fact that a lot of our young players are incredibly disgruntled and honestly, I think having our AHL team in Winnipeg as well is a huge detriment - imagine being a 20 year old first round draft pick, you are weighing your options on how you'd like your career path to play out and you are stuck in Winnipeg EVERY day, getting third line grinder minutes on the Moose thinking to yourself "is this how I want to spend the next 10+ years of my career?" The Jets need to take a long hard look at the way that they do business and stop trying to convince themselves that the loyalty of Morrissey, Scheifele, Lowry, etc can be instilled in every single player. Young players want to PLAY these days, they want opportunities to control their career and we don't have to like it but we have to respect it. Winnipeg itself is a big hurdle to these players but the front office and the way we treat our young players is the biggest hurdle of all at this point.

This is Jason Hogan erasure and I will not stand for it

Would HE notice? Is it too revealing to confirm that it was G. Billan? Ahhh that’s probably giving too much away. Garrett B!

lol this is such an embarrassing thing to write down and click the send button on. If Rich wants to take away my "administrator" tag so that I'm allowed to talk the exact same way you talk to people, he's more than welcome to do so. The way you insult Booch is so much worse. The way you start almost 50% of the posts you make with some form of "I don't know if people just don't get it or what" is your (bad) attempt at mocking people and I don't see you having a problem with that. As an aside - I've said on more than one occasion recently, I'm not a moderator here. I don't even think I know how to get into the Mod Panel or whatever it's called anymore. I have this tag because I helped (not really) Rich start this place up way back when. "cyber knock him out" though ... wow Such a ridiculous thing to say from probably the most self-unaware person we have in our community. Despite what Al thinks, I don't have a problem with him. If he wants to be loud, boisterous and abrasive and then play the victim when he gets it back, that's up to him. We've all known eachother for going on 15-20 years now. I'd say we're all very comfortable talking with eachother like we would if we were sitting on the couch watching the game together. It's probably the main reason this place still exists in spite of Reddit, etc. Nobody needs to threatening other people.

There’s no feud brother, it’s a message board. You should press like on everything I write, my belief system would not allow me to post something that wasn’t worth liking.

All of this is very wrong for all of the reasons already outlined in the last dozen posts. Brady, Demski, Nield, Neufeld, Wallace, Bryant If we were using our ratio to its full extent, this easily accomplishes what we want it to without us being pigeon holed into a Canadian fullback, tight end, receiver, whatever for that last spot.

This is a wild sentence to type out when your belief system made you forget about Tim White and Tommy Nield.

Look at it from a different perspective - we literally handed this guy a roster spot. That spot doesn’t need to be a Canadian at all - the minute we start using the roster rules appropriately, we could change absolutely nothing about our current roster except make Daniels an American and finally call Stanley Bryant a Canadian like we are allowed to. Daniels doesn’t need to be interchangeable with those guys at all, he is currently required to by nature of us ignoring the roster rules because O’Shea doesn’t “believe in them”.

… I feel like you stick to an opinion and you are literally just unable to process a different viewpoint. He’s not comparing Cobb to Lawler. He’s saying he’s our fifth option, other guys had huge games. Not every receiver is going to get 100 yards a game. Our offense is clicking and you’re bitching and whining that we didn’t invest into THREE free agent receiver big ticket items (and also somehow forgetting that you pretended we didn’t sign ANY)

The Gavin Cobb obsession is now bordering on delusion. We signed Tim White and Tommy Nield, what on earth are you on about