Kenny and Renny Post Game Show | Jets vs. Bruins Game 30

Kenny and Renny Post Game Show | Jets vs. Bruins Game 30

Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Hello everybody. I’m Sean Reynolds from Sports about to be joined by Ken Wei from the Winnipeg Free Press. Together we are Kenny and Renie. This is the Kenny and Renie postgame show after um I I would call that a demoralizing loss. Um, now it’s funny because I don’t think that this was a performance that was worse than what we saw from this team a couple days ago um against the well on the weekend against the Edmonton Oilers. Think it’s a game though that has the potential. Now, I talked with Ken. I asked him about this team and whether he thought its belief was shaken. Um, I think that this was a game that shook the Jets belief uh and has a potential to really affect the Winnipeg Jets going forward. So, let’s go hop in our Toyota from Jim Patterson Toyota on Regent and take the opening drive and and talk about it. Um, why do I say that? Well, I had come on this program the last game when the Winnipeg Jets um had a game against the Dallas Stars, one of the top teams in the league. uh outpossessed him in the um in Arizona. Started to do some of the things that we knew of the Winnipeg Jets. Something that I didn’t think that the Winnipeg Jets were capable of. Um and did so in that game. Um, got me thinking of, no, I’m not a country uh country fan, but it got me thinking of Toby Keith, uh, cuz my buddy uh my buddy Dwighty, who by the way is the coach of the Neverville Nighthawks, who are off to a historic start. Um, and the number one ranked Junior A team in the country. That’s my guy Dwighty I’ve been bragging about on this program for years. You’ll Hey, go check out the Nighthawks. You’ll see why I brag about him. This guy’s on his way to doing some big things. But Dwighty, a bit of a country fan. He and his wife Christy, they have got they have horses. And so he kind of adopted, you know, we were rock guys when we were young. He kind of went in a different direction in life. Got a little bit country. Loved his Toby Keith and always used to kind of very, you know, like he was saying something wise say, “I’m not as good as I once was, but I’m good once as I ever was.” Um, some of you are going to know the song that I’m talking about there. And it Dwighty is right. It it is somewhat profound, right? Because what you’ll find and what you’ll see I thought that song, you know, always talked so kind of explained so well professional athletes when they get to a certain age in the idea that you’ll see flashes of people when they’re older being able to do the things that they were young and a lot of you will have experienced that. I know I experience it in life. Every once in a while I’ll be able to do something and I’ll be like, you know what, 30-year-old Renie, you know, I can do could have done that. So, so can this age of Renie, you know what I mean? But the difference is 30-year-old Renie would have done that, you know, again and again and again and again and again. In this age, Renie can probably only pull it off, you know, a shorter amount of times. And that’s what I’m left with after watching this game tonight. after watching, which I think is going to be a staple of the conversation we have on this show here. After watching their head coach, Scott O’Neal, after that game, talk about that game against the Dallas Stars where I thought the Jets had looked as good as they’d looked all year, even though they didn’t come away with a victory. And what I didn’t see was a coach who was like, “Now that’s the way we got to play.” It was a coach who almost sounded doubtful that his team would be able to carry that forward, you know, and carried out that and said it again yesterday during their practice. Well, it they’ve got to carry it forward. They’ve got to do this. Last year, it used to be, you know, and going back to the Bones era, it was like we we need to do this and we will. There was a definitive this is going to happen, just you wait and see. And you saw that last year. Everyone remembers, you know, the prime example of it was losing to the Florida Panthers earlier in the year, the Florida Panthers coming back couple days later to Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Jets winning that game and talking about it like they were going to go out, they were going to show exactly what they were made of. And that’s exactly what they did. Um, it makes me think, you know, based on the the the idea that I’ve had that I don’t think that the Winnipeg Jets, as currently constructed, can execute the system that they’re trying to execute. They did execute that system. Not as tight as they did last year, but but to a a pretty good faximile of it in their last game against the Dallas Stars. And it got me thinking to a degree. Okay. Is there something that has just been missing that they’re finally finding it? It’s odd that a team would not find it at all until almost 30 games into the season and then suddenly be able to get there, especially a veteran team because of a veteran team is capable of doing it, they usually know how to execute to get to the point of doing it. This to me uh makes me think of the Toby Keith song that uh that last game was the Jets being good once as they ever were. Uh, and what you saw tonight is I thought in in their comments after the game, in their body language on the ice, in their performance on the ice, in their head coach’s uh commentary after the game, what I saw was a team that realized just how far off and just how hard it would be to get their game back to where they thought that they could get to based on last year. And here’s the deal. There were patches of this game. Uh I thought Marada Tesh from The Athletic put it well. The Jets look good until they don’t. I thought that’s a really good explanation because there were times in that game that you were thinking, okay, here we go. And I think there’s a lot of people out there who are watching that game who thought, I think the Winnipeg Jets are going to come back in this one. Still troubles coming back in the third period. You might know my thoughts on it. Nick Eers team not the same trying to come back in games without Nick Eers. Um, but it’s it’s it’s beyond that. But you take a look at the Winnipeg Jets. Um, there were some swatches of the game tonight where they got in, they got their uh their their grind going, they got their forche going, they pinned the Bruins in their end for a little bit of time and it looked like okay. And I can tell you I got you you’ll see sometimes in the commentary Razer uh will pop up here and Razer texts me every once in a while. Um, Razer is a real big Winnipeg Jets fan, a real positive, one of those guys who’s like, “Okay, here we come.” And he texted me and he said, “Okay, this is it. They’re turning back into their old selves and you’re going to see Connor Hellback.” Conor Hellbach’s going to come back and the Winnipeg Jets are going to be one of the most dominant teams down the stretch. And he said, and I said to him, I think you’re l seeing what you’re seeing is a lot further down the road than what I’m seeing. Like if you’re seeing all the signs of a team that’s just about to lock in and go, I’m not quite seeing that. But I think there’s a lot of people who are thinking, “Okay, here they come.” Not just people. I think the Winnipeg Jets think that. I think that when they start having those moments, then what’s going to happen is it’s going to be a ball rolling down the hill and then they’re just going to start dominating and it’ll just build and build and build. And the fact of the matter is, when you’ve fallen as far as the Winnipeg Jets have fallen, and let’s make no doubt about it, the National Predators are one point back at the Winnipeg Jets right now with even games. Like, they’ve fallen far. The W the National Predators not long ago, the last time the Jets played them, which was not long ago, were the last place team in the NHL. Now, they sit one point back of the Winnipeg Jets. The Winnipeg Jets have fallen far. The trick with falling far is that your belief is thin. Um, but also, you know, when you get things rolling in your direction and you just think that everything is going to lock in, lock in, lock in, lock in. What the Winnipeg Jets found tonight is they got going in the one direction and things started looking good and then the puck came down to the other end of the ice and good offensive zone grinding does not necessarily equate to good defensive zone play. The Jets were atrocious with the breakdowns tonight. Um, and I think that’s the part about that is the Winnipeg Jets in some ways executed a lot of what they wanted to execute tonight and still it ends up being a game in which they hung their goalender out to dry repeatedly. We’ll get to Eric Carry. I’m not letting them off the hook uh in this situation here, but hung their goalender out to dry. Made critical mistakes at the worst possible time. That fifth goal of the game was just an absolute absolute dagger to the heart. But if you think it’s going to be as simple as the Winnipeg Jets chipping the puck in, getting a good forch check and getting one good shift, and then the next line comes out and has another good shift, and the next line comes out and has another good shift, and all of a sudden, seven shifts later, there is the President’s Trophy, Winnipeg Jets. I don’t like the chances of that happening. And I think the Winnipeg Jets walked away from this game with their belief shaken, realizing that what they thought was maybe just a tweak away is actually multiple multiple multiple tweaks away. The Jets are down in the bottom of a hole. And just to get to ground level, just to get to the kind of team that can go 500, they have a lot a lot of climbing to do to get to that point. That’s uh your uh opening drive. Uh your Jim Patterson Toyota on region opening drive. And uh hey uh oh, give me one second here. Um this December, it’s time to Toyota. Jim Patterson Toyota on Regent. Lease the 2025 Tacoma 4×4 SR5 truck from just $116 weekly for 64 months at 6.59% with $7,699 down and a $1,500 accessory credit. But hurry, the offer ends December 31st. Visit Jim Patterson Toyota on Regent for a test drive today. All right, time to bring in my man. My man with the best music in the business. Here comes Kenny, folks. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] What does so? You’re muted. Wow. I don’t even know how that happened. Um, hey, uh, Ken, promise I didn’t do it. didn’t look good by the end of the night here tonight. Uh I know you’re looking good because I see you’re wearing a Reny tie there. You recognize that baby? Yeah, one of my favorites. I never even tie. So that is not even a borrowed. That is a Kenny special gift there. Uh straight up gift straight from me to you. Uh and I can do that because uh the guys down at Victoria Rossy take care of me. Like Frankie and the boys who I’m going to go see on Monday. I’ve set it up. I’m Oh, I’m coming with you. What time? You’re there Monday. I can make it Monday. We We could hold hands, leave the arena together, and uh uh get on down there together and take care of it at the same time. Uh like all you folks could do. Hey, if you want to see sounds like Renie and Kenny down at Victoria Ross, you can head there Monday or you can head there any other time. Walk in loudly proclaimed Kenny and Renie sent you. Ask for Frankie and the boys and they will do you upright. Can I I can’t remember a game like this in which I thought like towards the end the Winnipeg Jets had a real chance to get back in that game. Um and and the thing about it is I thought that the Bruins played really really well. Um I thought that the Bruins were actually kind of a version of the Winnipeg Jets last year. Not as sharp, but a team that was had really good attention to detail, just kind of piled doing the right things over and over and over again. And the Winnipeg Jets were right there. Um, and you walk away from it and and I just the the the feeling of how this game turned and the kind of hopelessness that was felt like looked like was being felt on the ice, looked like we were hearing in the post game, looked like we were seeing from the fans who are filing out of that building. Um, this game to me, Ken, feels like a gut punch. What does it feel like to you? Yeah, you know, it’s super interesting and I agree with you totally. Uh, I think that I love the way the Bruins played in the neutral zone. That is what was reminiscent to me of how the Jets played. Their back pressure and their aggressive attacking nature. Sean, you always talk about how, you know, those old Jets, never mind the blue line. They they they made it hard for you to get the blue line. They attacked you before you even had a chance to get to the blue line. So, uh, in terms of the Jets, you know, just sort of, you know, they haven’t scored first very often. Uh they get the first goal and then they take two silly offensive zone miners and two penalties that you cannot take. I mean the Morgan Baron one is a little bit unlucky but he he he had his arm wrapped around him. I mean Gustaf Nyquist I mean Sean we saw him in the morning uh how frustrated he was. He healthy scratch for the first time. Uh don’t think you particularly enjoyed the line of questioning. um obviously frustrated. Scott Neil, you know, openly shared that Nyquist was sour about being out. Um you know, and then he went out and said and he encouraged him to play better. And on his second shift, he takes a tripping minor, careless tripping minor in the offensive zone behind the goal line. And again, obviously, Gustaf Nyquis, Gustaf Nyquis, did not want to do that. But Sean, we talk it doesn’t matter if you’re a 36-year-old NHL veteran or if you’re Nikita Chibov, that is the type of if you are struggling to be a consistent player in the lineup, you cannot afford to take that penalty, Sean, under any circumstance, especially not with a one- nothing lead for a team with sort of a fragile confidence level right now. And those are the kind of ones Sean again, you never know what’s going to happen. But for a team that has now given up power play goals in seven consecutive games and two straight games where they gave up two power play goals, that’s the type of penalty you expect to get scored on. So game turned quickly. Unfortunate for Baron. Obviously, he wasn’t trying to take a penalty there either after scoring. Baron does what he needs to do. Gets to the net. You know, simple play as he talked about in the post game. You know, two whacks at it, gets to the front of the net, scores his first goal in 20 games. starts to feel better about himself, takes a penalty in the offensive zone. Bruins score. All of a sudden, the Jets all that work to get to one- nothing. Then they fall down two to one and then it’s three to one after another, you know, after giving up two power play goals, Sean, you cannot give up a breakaway to a fourthline player or any other player in that scenario. So, you know, after all of that, giving up three goals in under three minutes, Jets sort of settle themselves down for various periods, but then it’s an absolute shooting gallery again. Tons of great a chances, uh, poor attention to detail, and they just again, the Jets look nothing like a contending team right now. Uh, they do it in spurts. They have little glimpses, you know, great analogy out of the gate. Um, but like this is they want to get in the hot tub time machine, Sean, but they keep pressing the wrong date is what I see, right? Doc Graham at already, but they’re not punching in the right year or the time or the place. Uh, it’s just not happening for them right now. Uh, I agree with you. I think that their their belief is most certainly shaken. Uh, and the lack of consistency is downright befuddling, Sean. Uh, I get it. You know, we understand when people give the answers they do. If they had the answers, they wouldn’t be going through it. I get it. But it it’s baffling to see how far the standard has eroded. We talked about erosion of standards earlier on. It’s hard to find the standard, but you can’t say that today because we saw it two days ago, but today’s effort was nowhere near that standard. And I mean, Sean, you and I talked about this a lot in the last couple days. Scott O’Neal was talking about having to be consistent almost as soon as the game was over. So, at a time where you thought he might want to accentuate the positives, he was basically saying trying to already start hammering home with his team. Yeah. Hey, that was okay, but you got to do it again. Got to do it again. And the reason the problem with what’s happening on that front, Sean, it hasn’t happened often enough, which is why he has to constantly harp on them trying to do it again. But it hasn’t seem to I mean, it’s not that the message isn’t resonating. Talking about it is not leading to action. No matter how many clips they’re showing, the Jets are not playing to the level on a consistent basis there. There’s no other way to put it. I mean, the Jets are at game 30. They have not stacked together, you know, more than three games in a row, and even those games are not very prevalent in the first 30. So, uh, they they got a lot of work to do. I’m going to back right up to where you started there, uh, with the Gusto Gustav Nyquist thing. Um, I get that we were there this morning. He clearly seemed grumpy with the media in answering his questions. Uh, like you’d said, Scott Arneil had let it slip. He wasn’t happy about that. I understand the whole thing about a veteran player who’s never been in that situation before where they’re getting sat out of a game being upset about that. Um, I think that, you know, during the recruitment process of bringing the player there, there’s maybe I mean, I don’t know this, uh, but the anger that he’s showing, maybe it’s just straight up just being unhappy and and and he’s willing to radiate that unhappiness. But um to me what was missing in the kind of response that we saw from Gus Nyquist was a little bit of like well if you’re angry how much of that is directed towards yourself. How much of that is a placement on you of being like I’m angry because I haven’t been able to do the things that I need to do here. Um and I don’t know that you heard a lot of that in his answers either. So, it seems like a disgruntled player who may not think that he’s being given the best opportunity. Uh, and that’s not what I see. I see a player that has been given a lot of opportunity. And to your point, and this is, I mean, in the end, it’s a results business, right? And let’s make this clear, it’s a results business beyond almost most of the, you know, any of the businesses that we’re in, right? Like you you’re in there, you either produce or you find yourself gone. So there’s a level of pressure that NHL players have um that other people don’t have. The payoff for it is a princely sum. Um so that’s kind of the tradeoff for it. But I if if you’re in that situation where you’re upset with your coach, where you’re grumpy with the media, where you’re kind of letting the whole world know you’re not happy and you don’t care who knows it, I I think it’s incumbent upon you to come out and play the kind of game that says a mistake was made here and this is why I was mad. You want to see why I was mad? I was mad because that was BS. And I’m going to show you why it was BS. And there was nowhere near that kind of performance tonight. To your point, that penalty early. Uh when I saw that it was taken, it it just was one of those ones that like you’re not going to be happy with it as a coach. I don’t think you’re going to be happy with it as a player. It was too far from the net to be taken in that situation. It’s one of these things where you’re just basically being outco competed and you take the penalty because you’re being outco competed in that situation. And now it’s in the back of the net. And for the rest of that game, I did not see much at all. Check nothing of Gus Nyquist showing the world, hey, I had a reason to be angry. What Gus Nyquist looks like after that and his anger is that he’s misdirecting his anger and that that anger needs to be somehow found and and taken intrinsically to find a way. And you could see after the game, Scott Arneal not happy at all with those penalties that were taken uh in his response to to one of your questions there. So clearly he it hasn’t made a good impression on the coach. And I mean I’ll bring it to this Ken. Um I know people were texting me. Sounds like the guys were talking about it on the illegal curve uh broadcast there, but someone had said uh here we go. Um, uh, Joe from Winnipeg says, “A message needs to be sent. Start waving vets.” Um, a lot of people calling for this. Uh, I had a conversation with one of our, uh, colleagues, um, who’s enjoying retirement right now about this. I wanted your take on this. Yeah, I mean, it’s it’s an interesting take for sure, and I think it’s easier to say that without thinking about the overall ramifications. Y uh in terms of we’ve talked about the subject before and again I’m not saying they the Jets can’t do it or won’t do it but the reason that it hasn’t been happening on a prevalent va basis um you know the last time they did wave David Gustin was waved that’s an internal drafted and developed player but David was mostly a forthline player so Gus Nikos was signed to be a top six player essentially or middle six at worst for the Jets. He’s 36 years old. Um, again, had not been a healthy scratch in the NHL until he was 36 years old. So, again, you understand the frustration and again, not at this level, not anywhere close to this level, but I’ve got a little I’ve got a little experience with being a healthy scratch and what you feel like when it happens at the, you know, Canadian college level. Uh, but again, you cannot let that permeate into the room. You work hard in your bag skates and like you said John, you have to show the coach there’s a reason why he cannot take you out again. And Sean, we have a great example with Cole Kepky. Since Cole Keepy was healthy scratched this last batch of games, he has four points in the last four games. Cole Kepky does not have the offensive capabilities as Gustaf Nyquist. He’s no has been nowhere near the production level of Nyquist, but he’s outscored him four to nothing in the last four games. Nyquist has one assist in 10 games. He needs to be better. And as you said, I and I will give him credit for this earlier in the season, Sean, when he was struggling when we asked him about it in Minnesota. He did say then he needed to be better. I would have liked to have hear that heard that today. Yeah, certainly if you’re Scott or Neil, the player better have expressed that level of accountability in that one-on-one meeting. Uh, even if he didn’t want to share his side of the story. U, in terms of the waving veterans, I don’t think the Jets are there yet, but I think it has to there’s really not a lot of other options, Sean. If you want to change your roster short of making a trade, if you want to recall a player, whether that’s a younger prospect or a Walker doer, the Jets are going to be back to full health here with Hayden Flurry. So, there is not the opportunity to make a move like that without waving a veteran player. Now the the one the other side of the equation Gustaf Nyquist yes of course the Jets would have said this is what we have laid out for you but in terms of Nyquist he is on a one-year contract so their loyalty level would not be the same as it would be for someone who’s been in the system for you know five six seven years whatever that is but now your concern if you’re Kevin Chevoff and you want to wave a guy like that I’m not saying it’s him any veteran player what are the repercussions ussions in the market come July 1st. But again, that if you want to make a move, they’re going to have no other choice, unless they’re making a trade, than to potentially put someone on waiverss at some point. So again, I’m not trying to sit on the fence here, Sean, but I am saying that I know what you’re doing. Hey, you’re being you’re being reasoned about this, which is what has to be done. I mean, again, the best example of this is the Jets wave their guy who was a starting goalie for a long time for them, Andre Pavick. That is the most high-profile guy that they have chosen to put on waiverss. Yeah. And paid full freight when he played the whole year with the Manitoba Moose before he got traded to the Rangers that year. Right. So, right, there is an example, but Sean, we’ve been talking about this for a lot of years until recently. Same reason the Jets don’t go out and buy out the last year of most players contracts. Yes, they did it with Mark Stewart. Yes, they did it with Blake Wheeler. Yes, now they did it with make Nate Schmidt. But it’s not something that they make a habit of doing, which is why they’re going to be patient when it comes to, you know, making a move like that. It’s not in case of emergency break glass. I don’t want to, you know, I don’t want to exaggerate or make it sound like they never do it, but it’s rare that they do it. So, I it would be something that, you know, again, I don’t think they’re there yet, but it has to be on the table at some point. I if if you’re looking to change the roster, unless you’re going to make a move involving one of those guys, I I just think when you’re looking at this, like you have you have to realize what’s at stake. So, I get it. Everyone out there is really angry right now, right? And there’s a bunch of people calling for heads. They want to see heads roll, right? This is what happens when things aren’t going well. And let’s make no mistake about it. Things are not going well for the Winnipeg Jets. All the folks out there who are saying, “Ah, things aren’t that bad.” They’re bad. The Winnipeg Jets have fallen and they cannot get up and they’re getting passed by organization after organization. They’re finding themselves in a really, really tough spot here. So, it’s bad. It’s a bad situation. But what’s at stake? And Ken, you touched on it. when you’re going to go out and you’re going to be the Winnipeg Jets in an organization that is trying to draw people in, you have to be concerned about how that looks. So, if you’re pissed off and you’re at home and you’re saying, “Let’s axe this guy. Let’s get him out of here. Let’s wave him.” Well, how do you think that player is going to be on the way out? Right? And you’ve had this thing before. And I know I know from your comments, you you you folks out there, you love it when you hear the stories about, you know, Luke Shen coming to town and then talking about what a great organization it is and what a great place it is to raise your kids, right? You love that kind of stuff. You love when the Winnipeg Jets that kind of get that kind of organization. So, if you love that and if you think there’s value to the Winnipeg Jets having that, you have to understand that that reputation can be altered by by doing something like that, bringing in a player, saying to Gus Nyquis, “We think that you can be the best version of yourself, and that’s what we’re going to give you time to do when you come here to the Winnipeg Jets.” And he comes here, and then he ends up getting scratched for their first time ever, and then he gets waved, and it’s like, “See you later.” Gus Nikas knows a lot of players in this league. he knows a lot of people. He’s got an agent. All these different kind of things and that affects the way. So, so I’m not saying you don’t do it. I’m I’m with Ken on this one. Like you got to start looking for different options. Um but at some you you have to realize that that happened. So everyone who’s mad and just saying right now, you know, like hey, you know, maybe snuff out the torch that you’ve got going on there and just think through this and think of the ramifications. I’m not saying don’t do it, but think of where that comes from. The other part about this is where do you stop with with waving? Right? Like right now, do you wave do you wave Pearson as well? Do you wave Shen as well? How many people are you going to wave on the way out? And and and are you going to be that team now that says, “Okay, well, we’re going to solve this problem by taking and stuffing all these guys down and then we’re going to bring a bunch of young guys up.” And and here’s the deal. the way this system works, the the jet the system the Jets are trying to get. There’s a lot of you folks out there who think the Jets aren’t fast enough. So, we just need to bring in speed and the problem solved. Bam. Get rid of the old guys. Bring in the young guys. Problem solved. You may think it’s that easy. Talking with people who know the game and people who know this system. It was said to me, look, the veterans come in and they are supposed to be like veterans know how to play the system. You can bring them in. They know the system. They know how to play it. They know how to execute it. It looks like the veterans that were brought in aren’t fast enough to execute this system. The Jets won. But it’s not just foot speed. It’s thought speed. It’s how you execute. It’s how you know how to do it. So for all you folks out there, are you so certain that all these young guys are going to come in from the moose and be able to play the system or are they going to come in and be fast players that don’t necessarily know how to go cuz they’re learning on the run? And then the Winnipeg Jets have just as many problems. And now you waved in anger at a whole bunch of established guys with friends around the league for uh young players to get the exact same result. And if you’re getting the exact same result, is it worth it? Is it worth waving a whole bunch of people, making them angry, bring guys in? Now, I know a lot of you people out there are going to say, “Well, it is worth it because then you can bring those players up and they can get experience at the NHL level and we can kind of start the rebuild.” Okay, that’s a great thought, but it’s not so easy that you can just execute it and do that. Here’s a couple things. A, if the Winnipeg Jets are struggling and you end up bringing a whole bunch of young players off of an extremely successful Moose team right now that is doing the kind of things that are exactly what you want your young players going through as they develop and come out of the NHL and yank them out of there and pull them into a system and this continues with the Winnipeg Jets, you have you are in danger now of losing those players of them getting frustrated of it changing the way that they see themselves. Am I as successful as I thought I was? The confidence. All these kind of things. And this now leads to the final point, which I think is an overarching point. I don’t know how much we’ve talked about it here, Ken, but here’s where the Winnipeg Jets find themselves in a really, really dilly of a pickle, as Ned Flanders would say. This is a team that is resigned its core. A core that has had very limited playoff su success, but they resigned their core. The Adam Lowry’s, the Connor Hellbooks, the Kyle Connors, the Mark Shley’s, and they did it on the promise that the Winnipeg Jets would be all in and competing for a cup year after year after year. This is a tough spot to be in, Ken. And it’s one of the reasons why I thought like every there’s there’s positives and there’s negatives with every strategy. The positive with that strategy is the Winnipeg Jets convinced all those players they were a family and we’ve got your back and we’re going to do this for you. Stay in Winnipeg and we are going to do everything we can at this stage to turn you into teams that go for the cup every single year. Well, sometimes it makes sense to take a step backwards. And if you promise that you are going to throw everything but the kitchen sink at winning a Stanley Cup every single year, it affects the way that you can execute a promise that maybe you can’t fulfill that promise. And I’ll tell you this, waving all your veterans and bring in four or five young guys, which everyone wants to do, now you have to worry about the idea of, well, how does Mark Schiffley take that? How does Kyle Connor take? This isn’t what we signed up for. We didn’t sign up to go through the middle of a rebuild. We We thought we were coming off a president’s trophy and that we were going to be carrying this forward for the next 5 years. Now all of a sudden, we’re part of a rebuild. What happens if that rebuild doesn’t work? What happens if the Winnipeg Jets are right here in this spot for another two years? Now, are you in a situation where the core that you’ve signed, you need to start moving them out? So what I’m saying here is everyone just wants to come out and they want to say wave this guy or do that. There are levers. Every time you pull a lever, something happens. Something else happens here. So I am not saying that you don’t wave one veteran or maybe a couple or whatever. And I’m right now telling you the way Gusto Gustaf Nyquis played tonight, I think he should be right out of the lineup for the next game. So, I mean, and if his feelings are hurt and he’s angry and it changes the way that he talks about Winnipeg, at some point you’re a pro and you got to put the onus on yourself. And if you’re going to be the kind of pro who does not fulfill the things that he’s been brought in to do and then wants to spread word around the league that the organization is a problem, well, that’s just going to happen. You can’t avoid those things. But then you’ll be but but what I’m saying here is everyone is doing this kind of thing where it’s like make a move, you know, shoot first and think later. And and it’s deeper than that. Okay. And and to be honest, Ken, you were worried about, you know, being perceived as sitting on the fence with this answer. I’m probably sitting on the fence more than anyone on this because I’m laying the things out. But I think it’s smart to lay out the things that you need to understand about this because it affects everybody and it really affects what this team looks like going forward. And that’s the territory we’re in now, Ken. People were looking at the Nashville Predators and being like, “Oh my god, what’s happened to the Nashville Predators?” And that’s where they are. Well, it’s starting to look like the Winnipeg Jets are heading down a slope where they could and and hey, credit to Nick Linham because Nick Linham said something about this early on. I said they weren’t there yet. They definitely weren’t there yet, but the Winnipeg Jets look very much in danger right now of becoming the next Nashville Predators. A team that a lot of people thought were going to be one of the most competitive in the league that now find themselves in a whole bunch of trouble with no easy answers on how to get out of it. For sure. And again, this is not to lump all folks into one basket here. Everyone has their own opinion and we respect those opinions, but we’re just here to explain why there’s not going to be an all-out rebuild. Sean, that that that’s part of, you know, part of the waiverss discussion. The Jets are not bottoming out intentionally because you know what was going to happen? Josh Morris is going to be gone. One of the top three defenseman in the NHL. If the Jets are trying to bottom out, which they won’t, he’s gone in free agency. You’re having to trade the best goalie in the NHL. Uh you’re having to trade two 100 point scorers in Mark Schiffley and Kyle Connor. uh because they’re not going to spend the early part and mid part of their 30s as part of a rebuild and then hoping that when they’re, you know, 34, 35, 36 that they might take another run at it. That that’s that’s just not going to be the way that it works. Uh but yeah, I mean that that means there’s going to have to be some other decisions that are made here. So, u yeah, it’ll be very interesting to see what happens in the next little bit. And uh you know, unrelated to that, but you know, part of the thing, you know, Boston had a really bad year last year. They didn’t in, you know, bring in a ton of Fraser Mitten is a young guy. Yes. Uh but they didn’t just bring up a bunch of guys from Providence. Um you know, they’re looking a little bit different. They signed some, you know, free agents in the off season, made a late season move. They’ve changed things around, but their fourth line, all three guys in their fourth line are out there killing penalties. Tanner Jano, Shan Carali, Mark Castellic. So, um yeah, it’ll be interesting to see how things roll here in the next little while for sure. Um, just a couple comments I wanted to take a look at here. Um, uh, give me one second here. Uh, there’s some good flame and comfort candidates here. Yeah, there’s there’s some pretty good ones. Um, okay, here, this is one I want to talk about because I can explain this one. The huge gap by the D, giving them an easy exit and neutral zone. No confidence. This isn’t a confidence issue, but absolutely I am for sure going to give the flame and comfort comment because this is a massive issue, but I can explain it as it’s been explained to me. The Winnipeg Jets, this is the key to what made them such a good team last year was the activating of their defense to make them the smothering team that they were. People are going to understand what I say by that by saying, “Do you remember what it was like to try and get the puck out of other teams if you’re the opposition trying to get the puck out of your zone against the Winnipeg Jets?” And you remember all these times that Josh Morrisy and Dylan Samberg and Neil Pian was brilliant at it and so on and so forth. Dylan Dlo would hold the line like it was trench warfare. You are not allowed to take the puck out of the zone and they were so good at that. And where is that this year? It’s non-existent. And this is exactly what is being talked about here. The huge gap by the D giving them an easy exit to the neutral zone. This is exactly maybe the biggest issue the Winnipeg Jets are facing. But there’s a problem behind this. What everyone sees as just a really active defense is a defense that needs certain things to be happening before they can be active. And and this was something that they were talking about the other day, the F3, but it’s another couple of things. A, you need to have a good forch check, and that’s what the Winnipeg Jets are missing this year. That’s why, listen, Ken, I don’t know how many times in the last couple years people would rip on Mason Appleton, and I said it over and over again. He was the tip of the spear. There’s an importance to that because in the system the Jets play and the system clearly, if people didn’t see that last year, I’m sure you see it now. the system was the star for the Winnipeg Jets and you need that first guy in. But the other thing that you need to do is be protecting the middle of the ice. If you’ve got the middle of the ice protected, what it means is a guy can’t fly the zone and if the puck gets chipped past you while you’re as a defenseman and you’re trying to hold that line, you don’t need to worry about a guy squirting in behind you and getting a breakaway and being gone, right? And that’s not happening with the Winnipeg Jets this year. And I contend, and I have for some time now, the Winnipeg Jets don’t have the speed to get in and get the forche going. And what is being talked about here cannot be done without a good solid Winnipeg Jet for check. And because they do not have the speed that they had on lines one, two, three, and four last year, they are not able to consistently get that kind of game. So Scott Arneil talked about it today. we got it for a little bit, but only for a little bit. Well, I’m telling you right now, I believe the only reason that they can’t get it more consistently is because there are certain lines that just can’t do it because you need first you need the forche and then you need to protect the guts of the ice and then you can bottle teams into their own zone and start going to work on them. That’s not here this year. And while while this the suggestion here I don’t think is right, it’s not a no confidence issue. It’s actually a structural issue and an inability to pull off that structure. But Charlie Horse 5700 absolutely nailed one of the most crucial issues for the Winnipeg Jets this year. And that is why he is the winner of the Flame and Comfort hot take today. And uh you know that Flame and Comfort is Manitoba’s premier supplier of fireplaces, wood stoves, inserts, and everything hearth related. After 50 years heating up your world, Flame and Comfort has moved to 1465 St. James Street. You will find when you get there, it is one of the most impressive showrooms in Western Canada. You don’t need your hot takes to keep that warm feeling inside. Folks, you can visit Flame and Comfort. They will take care of it for you. Okay. Um, can So, to the point you’re talking about with, you know, not Appleton, Jets tried a little more speed on that line today with Cole Keepy with Lowry. What did you think of his game? Well, I thought Keepy was one of the best players on the ice tonight. And yeah, you know, you’re thinking it’s clearly going to be one of those games where he’s playing his old teammates, right? He went out for dinner with some of them last night and got together with some friends. You can always expect an uptick from a player like that. But to your point, Cole Kepky’s been doing it for the last number of games. You’re starting to see now that the Winnipeg Jets, when they went out and tried to address their losses in the offseason, Cole Kepky was supposed to be a candidate that brought what all of the players that they lost brought. He’s a Brendan Tanv type. Uh he’s a Raasmus Kupari type. He’s a uh you know even a Mason Appleton type. So I think that that does work there. It gets a little bit closer to what they’re trying to do. Um again though, uh it’s it’s one player on one line and they’re just not getting that from Yeah. Well, five shots, 10 shot attempts, Sean, for a guy who hadn’t been getting going offensively. Five shots, 10, you know, 10 attempts, couple hits. I thought he was he was disruptive on the for check. I give him more than just one game. I like Hey, Cole Keepy has been given the pristine roofing wakeup call. He’s been one of the best winners and probably the closest to the blueprint that we saw from them last year, which is strange coming from a player who hasn’t been around for that blueprint. So, give him the pristine roofing wakeup call or he got it uh a while ago. And you know what that means? It’s time to give North End Rick to pristine roofing. Wake up, call at 204981-6289. He’s the guy you want down at your place for all your roofing, siding, and exterior needs. You can also call Pristine Roofing directly at 2042377663. Give your home the pristine roofing and siding wakeup call, folks. You will be glad that you did. Okay, we need to talk about Eric Comry. And I want you to take it away. Yeah, I mean it’s an interesting situation, Sean. So 12 start in the last 13 games for Comry. So Comry’s NHL career high is 20 games. So I mean it would probably no matter how prepared you are and we know that Eric Comry is prepared. He has a great attitude, puts in all the work, all of those things, he’s ready to be called upon as often as possible. But it it looks it it’s hard to look at the numbers and think that the workload has not been a little much right now, especially when you consider the way the Jets played in front of him, you know, ultimately outside of the game uh against the Dallas Stars. And even in that game, Eric was not at his best. I mean, uh this is very simple. I am not blaming Eric Comry for the doldrums. the Jets are in 512 and one in their last uh 18 games, but Sean say a percentage in the 700s is not sustainable. I mean that there’s no way around it. Uh like I said, he’s not letting in a bunch of muffins, but in the last three starts, he’s given up five goals, four goals, four goals. Same percentage 783, 789, 750. Now again, the two starts before that were 971, brilliant, and 935. But um you know in the block of games there have been too many uh nights where the same percentage is in the 700s. I mean it’s got to be in even in the 800s is usually not good enough. So uh I I don’t see comry letting in a bunch of muffins. But I also think there have been times where they’re not getting that critical save that they’ve got so often in the last stretch of time even from Comry himself in those backup games. And you know going back to Lauren Brrisad as well. So um yeah I mean it’s it’s a situation where and I brought this up the other day. I mean we know Dominic Devenentis’ parents are in town but Scott Neil kind of accidentally or not and I don’t think it was accidentally. Scott Neil when asking when he was asked about Dom Devenantis, he made it pretty clear that he switched from mentioning earlier in the week it sound like he might get some game action to mentioning today about how he’s got to, you know, enjoy the time spent with Connor Hellbuck in practice. So, you know, that didn’t dis that didn’t rule out the fact he might get some game action, but Heluk sounding like it’s closer than it would have appear in terms of his return. Now, I’m not certain. You know, even last game, I would have said I was certain uh DeCentis would get a game coming up here and and maybe he gets Saturday. I don’t know. Uh but what I do think is that um the workload has been stressful and and not in terms of having stress, but having to start 12 of 13 or 13 of 14 if you start Saturday. It’s a heavy workload uh for anyone who has not played more than 20 games in the National Hockey League. And again, Eric would be the first one. And you could see, and Sean, you’re a big body language guy. You could see the frustration Eric showed when he went to the bench after the fourth the first broadcast timeout after the Hampus Lindholm slapshot. You could see there was frustration when he went to the bench to grab a drink of water and to, you know, compose himself during the break. Yeah. I I mean, I’d understand he’d be frustrated. And you know what? It’s it’s to to your point and it’s funny. I was having conversations uh texts with uh my guy Tiko again. Um and we were and and here’s where I’m at. Couple games or couple games back, the Buffalo game, the Montreal game, I think Eric Comry stole the Winnipeg Jets three three points in game. Um and so if you take a look at where the Winnipeg Jets have found themselves, it could be worse. They could be right now two points behind the the national predators right now in the standings if not for Eric Comry. Right. And so I I’ve said this and I’ll say it again tonight. I I don’t need to say it. Scott O’Neal said it. Scott O’Neal said, “I don’t give a rat’s ass.” He didn’t say it like this, but his point was I don’t really care about the shot clock. Don’t tell me about the shot clock and this and that. if you go out and give up the scoring opportunities that we gave up tonight, the puck’s going to go into the back of the net here. Um, and so there’s there’s there’s a clear indication to me that the Winnipeg Jets are not playing well enough to win no matter who’s in net, right? And so while I say this and I tell you that I think Comry stole some points and while I say that I take a look at a game like tonight and I still think that the Winnipeg Jets hung their goalender out to dry and they’ve made a pretty good pattern of hanging their goalender out to dry over and over and over again. I agree with the idea. Someone had said Eric Comry is the kind of guy who comes in and steal gets you a couple of wins as a backup and then but he’s a backup. And what I’m seeing here right now, Ken, especially after the tail off that we’ve seen from those games where I thought that he stole those couple of points. It’s a lot to ask a player that you’re talking about who’s got, you know, maximum 20 starts in a season to go out now and carry the load on a team that is dropping their load at the goalie’s footsteps over and over and over again. And I I’ll say it like this. I I still think Eric Comry has done a a formidable job. I think early on he gave the Winnipeg Jets plenty of chances to shake themselves out of the doldrums, but at this stage it is abundantly clear that Eric Comry is not the answer. Now maybe Connor Hellbuck will come back and he won’t be the answer. And I can tell you exactly what’ll happen in that situation, Ken. If he’s not the answer, people won’t say because I I’ve seen this enough and that’s the thing that frustrates me about the goalender conversation is for all the people who try and say, “Well, since Connor Halle’s gone, it’s been all about Eric Comry.” What you’re doing is you are ignoring the obvious flaws that the Winnipeg Jets have. And that there’s no point in that. If you want to ignore that the Winnipeg Jets can’t score outside the top line and that they’re giving up ridiculous chances game after game after game and that they’re making boneheaded plays that they can’t pressure teams like they did in the past. If you want to ignore all that and lay it at Eric Comry’s feet, fine. There’s a lot of people who do that. So if Connor Hobb comes back and this doesn’t turn out right away, people and this continues on people will say, “Well, they brought Connor Hobach back too Hellbuk back too early and you know or it’s now it’s the team’s fault.” Well, now he’s being hung out to dry, right? Like, I don’t put any of this at the feet of Eric Comry. But I will say this, Ken, it’s a resultsorientated business. And if night after night after night, Eric Comry was stealing points or right to the point that it’s like, oh my goodness, the Winnipeg Jets were that close and they were only that close because of their goalending. Then you could go to bat over and over and over again. that stopped. He’s in the same place the Winnipeg Jets are. There’s no confidence. There’s no uh the the process isn’t being follow followed. It’s not working. He is right where the Winnipeg Jets are. Uh the comment by Disgruntled Tweed is the team is a canoe and refusing to paddle, just letting the Waves take it wherever it wants to. I agree with that 100%. And he’s Eric Comry in that boat with the rest of the players uh in that situation. Um, Ken, do you want to give uh Sweet Lou a shout out? Sure. Right on. For folks have realy needs you’d like to have met, contact our main man, Lou Ferland at Royal La Page Dynamic Realy 204-791-9971 or at the office 2049895000. His email is Louferland.ca. That’s lufurl.ca. Lou Furlin, excellent realtor, excellent human being, and excellent supporter of the community, including his podcast. Yeah, Eric Carry along with the rest of the Winnipeg Jets uh in a situation where they could be they they extremely need some growth right now and you can shoot for growth with Cambrian Wealth. Grow your wealth today to reach tomorrow’s big goals. Cambrian’s wealth team can assist. Invest in your future self your way. Our pals at Cambrian Wealth give straight up investing advice you can actually understand and help you make a strong financial play to get there. Book an appointment at cambrian.mb.ca. Um, Ken, anything you want to say before we get rolling into the awards? Yeah, it’s interesting. I mean, not a there’s a lot of meat on the bone still here, but uh I mean, Alex Ayafollo, important goal for him. You know, we’ve been talking a lot about the Jets breaking up the top line. So, Ayafollo makes a really smart net drive. I mean, he hadn’t scored, I think, in 13 or 14 games as well. Uh, smart play. I again with the benefit of hindsight and from where we sat in the press box, Sean, Andrew Peak is sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place. Shley is his guy in front, but I kind of think that you got to take away that lane if you can and force him to try to pass it through you. Uh but still smart play by I follow. He saw some space, took it to the net. Smart play. Uh that’s important for the Jets. They need complimentary scoring. We’ve talked about this for a long time. When he’s playing on that line, he’s got to score once in a while. That that’s part of the deal. That’s part of the promotion. Scott O’Neal went out of his way to say that was best game after the Dallas game. Following that up with the goal is important for him. Jets power play has dropped considerably. Sean, we know we said the other day the goal comes a second or two after. So, it’s like a power play goal, but the Gabe Valardi goal is a massive situation for them. They needed it. Uh that was a must score for them basically right at that point. So they got a goal and again simplify the play. Cole Perfetti has a lane attacks the net almost to hand pass but really good job by him to get to the net. Gets it over to Valardi. They score. U you know another smart play. We you know we’ve been on foretti for struggling offensively showing some confidence. Smart play. He had another play Sean in the other uh end of the ice where he went between the legs and got a good scoring chance away. Um, so again, some steps forward, but overall needs to be more impactful for me at five on five. We know he’s trying to, but not getting enough accomplished. A couple guys, as I mentioned, get out of the slumps. Uh, but still some other guys in some pretty deep slumps that have to get themselves going. Uh, if the Jets want to turn it around before this home stand is over, Ken, I don’t think we can cover like the entirety of this without talking uh to about Scott Arneal. We should talk about that before we get to the awards here. Uh cuz we want to make sure we’ve got this thing entirely covered. Just like the folks at Myers Drugs will have you entirely cut entirely covered if you go give them an opportunity here for to take care of all your pharmaceutical needs, your supplemental needs, and your health food needs. And of course, we know they have the entire city covered. So, uh give them a call and they can deliver right to your door. Uh they’re the best at it, folks. Um, I’m fascinated honestly by where we find Scott Arneal because like I’d said in the opening after that last game, what I thought I was going to see was, you know, a chipper upbeat Scott Arneal who was like, “Okay, that’s what we’re supposed to look like.” And instead, what we found was like a guy who was saying, “That’s what we’re supposed to look like, but we better carry it forward.” And what I I took away from that was a guy who was basically, you know, a like trying to shake his team and wake him up, but b a guy who was far from confident that his team was going to carry it forward. Then, you know, it was almost prophetic because what we see is a frustrated Scott Arneal after this game who I got to say like the we’re talking body language, you know, of the team just like the tone, the the body language like it it’s it’s there’s no joy in Joyville right now to steal a Kenny Weebism in this Noel special. Um, but I just I’m looking at this scenario here and when I’m when I’m thinking of like that when I talk about the Jets belief being challenged, I feel like that belief being challenged extends far beyond the room and goes into the room of the coaching staff at this situation here. And I find it interesting because I take a look and it just feels like from top to bottom this Winnipeg Jets team is feeling challenged. And I just wanted your take. You’ve known Scott Arneal a really long time. uh uh you know I I lean on you for for um your your take with this kind of things because I don’t know him near as long as you have and it’s tricky for a lot of folks I would assume in the same situation as me because everything went so well for Scott Arneal last year that you never really saw him in challenging times. Is this normal the Scott Arneal we’re seeing postgame? I I’ve said this before. I mean and you didn’t see it a ton last year because the Jets didn’t lose a ton. Scottell hates losing and again I understand everybody hates losing. Uh just Scott is someone who’s incredibly competitive. He was as a player. He was as an assistant coach was as a head coach in the miners is as a head coach in the NHL. Um there’s definitely frustration there. He’s doing his best to, you know, I think contain some of that frustration at times and, you know, keep a positive demeanor. uh Jets captain Adam Lowry went out of his way in his availability the other day, Sean, to say that, you know, there’s a lot of positive reinforcement in the video sessions. So, even though we see a frustrated version of Scott O’Neal, um, again, we we’ve been at a lot of the practices this week, Sean, you know, there isn’t this constant barking and it’s not there’s not like this cloud, dark cloud of negativity circling around the team coming in terms of the coaching staff and how they’re acting and interacting with players. So, um, yeah, I mean, I get it. I mean, fans would like to hear, you know, tons of, you know, this is how we’re going to solve the problems. I get that. But I think that, you know, Scott O’Neal is working hard, incredibly hard, behind the scenes to look for answers to the questions that have been hard to answer so far this year. And, you know, I think he’s going to continue to do that. U you know, generally the day after we’re seeing a little bit more, you know, of an upbeat Scott Neil, but I wouldn’t expect him to be upbeat. The Jets are not in a good place. Uh, but I know your point, Sean, is that you can’t let that fester. And I mean, Scott talked openly about this at practice the other day, too. I mean, you can’t be coming to work like you’re not enjoying your job. And again, nobody enjoys their job when they’re losing, but you know, it’s still you’re in the National Hockey League and you know, there is a recipe there and a template. It’s just a matter of trying to pull a few things out. And the other part of the frustration, Sean, too, is that their special teams were really, really humming. Let’s not kid ourselves. Part of the reason the Jets were nine and three to start the year, their power play was still in the top five or six and the penalty kill was near the top for a long time. They’ve tumbled all the way down I think going into today’s game like to 19th, Sean. Yes. In a very small period of time and after today they’re probably in the 20s to be honest. So um again when you’re a coach you’re not getting enough saves, you’re not defending well enough. You’re not paying attention to detail. you’re not scoring enough and your special teams are struggling. It would be hard to present a happy face with all of those things um you know to deal with. But again, I I Scott is a smart coach. We saw that last year. Uh I think he’s going to do whatever he can to try to get this turned around. But again, we we’ve talked about this a lot and ultimately e coaching is certainly part of it, but to me, if the Jets execute a little better, um, you know, we’re not having these types of discussions because the Jets would be playing better. Um, sorry, I’m lost on this comment. Talk nagging injuries, talk fourth line. Uh, I don’t know. Whatever. I guess Tishu is not getting what he wants in this one here. Um, I I will talk about this. Um, Joe from Winnipeg says, “How long before Arie rails on Chevy for giving him a crap lineup to play with?” That’s not going to happen. I don’t expect that to happen. But I I would say this, and I was thinking of this on the way home here. Scott Arneal is trying to fix a slumping lineup tonight by bringing in a slumping player that comes into the lineup and doesn’t have like at at some point, you know, we can say what we want to say about what’s happening here. You talked about where Scott Arneil’s at. You could talk about the players trying to figure this out. At some point, you kind of have to take a look at it and be like, I’ve said this before, um, I don’t see anything changing with this team without a roster shakeup. I I’m not going to beat that drum every single day. Every single day, every single day. But let me be clear, my my thoughts on that haven’t changed. I don’t think this team can execute the system it’s trying to execute with what they have. I don’t think that it could get to that without a shakeup to the roster. I think the thing that people need to realize is the vast majority of NHL teams, the Winnipeg Jets, haven’t been there for a while, so you forget what it’s like. The vast majority of LA of of NHL teams, this is what it is. They’re trying to play a system with a team that they don’t have a full team that they would like. They need to change this guy out. They need to change this guy out. I’ve had conversations with really, really smart coaches about teams that have turned and changed from non-playoff teams to extremely successful playoff teams as that turn was happening and heard that coach tell me this isn’t working. This isn’t working. This isn’t working. This isn’t working. We need to change those things. And then watching over the years, not year, over the years as those things were changed and all of a sudden that team succeeded. The fact of the matter is you don’t always get the lineup that works and it’s not easy to just turn it around. But that said, let’s make it clear. I I I see time and time again and I think that that is a perfect example of it. People keep talking about Scott Arneal rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. What other option is there as a coach? You’ve got your roster and you need to get the most you can out of that roster. If there was ever a sign of a coach trying to get something out of a roster that may not he may not be able to get something out of it, it’s right after playing what you thought was one of your best games of the season. Taking someone out of the lineup and putting someone else in because you need more scoring and this guy was brought in by your general manager to score and putting him in the lineup, a struggling player who just continues to struggle and works against you with the penalty that he’s taken. Um, a lot of times people sit here and they look for answers and they’re like, “Wave this guy and do this and do that and blah blah blah.” Sometimes you just don’t have the team, right? And that’s I think what the Winnipeg Jets uh are staring down for a lot of this. Uh, can that be fixed? Can it be fixed in a year? It’s awful hard. But to me, I don’t think a lot changes unless that starts to be chipped away at and fixed. Uh, Ken, uh, Johnson Group got you covered. Play of the game. What do you got? Well, there weren’t a ton of great options. I know you’ve got one. Uh my runner up is the Neil Pianc preventing the empty net goal, but you’ve got a better one here. Let’s go with that as our as our agreement. We’re in agreement. There was one play uh where um to the point of having a good gap, Dylan Samberg, who I thought was having a really good game and gapping up really well, being really good at like attacking at his own blue line um and killing plays, snuffing them out, tried to do so at the uh at the Boston Bruins line. the puck got by him and there was a potential for a twoon-one and he not only gets back and negates the twoon-one. So he he he stays aggressive, tries to pull off the system the Jets are trying to play, gets kind of burnt, but gets back and negates it. And then what ends up happening is the play is developing into a threeon two. So he negates the twoon one, makes it a twoon two, but the late trailer comes in. It’s now a threeon two. And he still snuffs out the play, turns around, gets the puck, and brings it back up ice. That was I thought uh negating a twoon-one then negating a threeon two snagging the puck sending it up ice. I just thought that was um a real good example of I think Dylan Samberg I’ve said this before Dylan Samberg doesn’t look like what he looked like last year because because of the way the system is going. He’s got a bigger area to defend now and that’s going to come with more mistakes. I’m seeing a player that is getting better and better at defending a larger area of the ice. he was a little out out of his element because of how open things were this year. I think a lot of players on the Jets have been. I like what I’m seeing from him learning how to play in a little bit more of a wideopen system. Uh that said, you’re still seeing mistakes in there and I think that that’s what you’re going to see because that’s just what happens in a system that’s a little bit more wide open. But that’s my Johnston group got you covered. Play of the game. Ken’s got his uh play of the game. No, no, I’m going with you. Mine was the runner up. All right. Uh do you run a small business in Canada? Look to Canada’s number one employee benefits plan, Chambers Plan, to give you a competitive edge. Chambers Plan is the simple, stable, smart choice for over 30,000 businesses countrywide. Visit chamberpl.ca to learn more. And that brings us to our hashtag the keg save of the game. What do you got? Yeah, it’s got to be the save on Shan Carali, which was one of the worst breakdowns of the entire game for the Winnipeg Jets uh in the second period. Uh there were some others. I mean, actually, one of Comrey’s best saves was the early game one-time on Pastastern. But, uh, I think that given the circumstance of the game, I think that that play on Carali is my choice for Keg save the game. Uh, two Jets defenseman, it was Stanley and Morsy. Uh, both ended up on the left hand side. Cari in front all alone. Jets couldn’t get it out. Um, Karm makes a really good save there. But again, honorable mention on the pass knocket one-time. So, and to the point uh to the point of of Comry and not being there to kind of like win the games that we saw, you know, the helluck wins we saw in the past in that situation there and in my hashtag the gag save of the game. Uh the the breakaway stop on David. Yes. Like you’re talking about this could have been a six, seven nothing. Who knows like sorry not seven nothing seven to seven to three 8 to3 game right like this could have got like this is already I think their one of their most if not their most disheartening losses of the year. But you tack on a couple more of those goals and have the Winnipeg Jets limp out of the rink after something like that. Like at at this point with confidence being where it’s at, you you can sink lower and lower and lower. I think the Jets confidence is extremely low right now. Maybe just maybe you can give Comry credit for keeping it from sink sinking even lower, but let’s make no mistake about it. The Winnipeg Jets desperately need Connor Hella back as quick as they can get him. Anyways, that’s my and Ken’s hashtag the kegs save the game. Doesn’t matter what we think though. Share with with us what you think. Share with us your hashtag the cake save the game. You’re automatically entered to win a $50 gift certificate usable at any of the three fine keg locations here in the city of Winnipeg. Each location finer than the last. And that brings us to our winner from our last show and that would be at peg citycott. At peg citycott. You know what to do. Direct message me at snan reynolds. Send me your full name. Send me an email. I will have the fine folks at the keg send you a $50 gift certificate usable at any of the three fine keg locations here in the city of Winnipeg. Each location finer than the last. Um we’re on a real good streak of like people being in here and uh winning and the waiters saying every time fake name and then me getting a getting an email from those people right afterwards. Waiters is uh waiters thinks everyone is a boss. You would like to be adjudicator. the adjudicator. Honestly, I’m surprised he hasn’t accused you and I of being AI at this stage. Uh, and just uh computerenerated images here. Either way, um, that’s it for us. Uh, Ken to say, just again, shameless plug, you’re going to be on Saturday, but uh, folks, check it out. I know some of you your joy level is not super high, but had a great chat with Morgan Geeky with a couple other members of the media today. uh did my best on the pride of uh the sniper from Strathclair, not just the pride of Strathclair. Fun story to do in the paper. Uh you know, fun game for him and a fun game for Alex Steves who uh whose father was from Winnipeg. He grew up in Minnesota, but uh he’s got an uncle from here in Gourd. Had a ton of people in from Karn of Saskatchewan. And that was his first NHL game in town here. And Alex has done a nice job uh coming over from the Leafs organization. second in the NHL in goals last year. He’s got six this year. Uh I liked his game. I mean, we talk about fast players who can put the puck in the net. Uh nice addition to the Bruins lineup and with some local ties. And again, the Geeky family. We had dinner uh with his folks today at the at the rink here and they were pretty proud uh about the way the season’s been going for both uh both Connor and Morgan. So, and again, Geeky UN, nobody has scored more in the last since January 1st, Sean. 47 goals for Morgan Geeki, which is ridiculous. Yeah. A guy that uh that it’s interesting because we keep talking about uh and I find it fascinating going into today. The top there’s seven Canadians uh in the top 25 in scoring. Five of them weren’t on the foreign nations roster. Geeky is one of those guys along with guys like Shley and Tom Wilson and so on and so forth. Uh it’s interesting because we keep talking about Shley M, you know, and whether or not he’s going to make that team. It’s already tough enough to knock off the guys who are on that for nations winning team, but the competition for the guys who were not on that team who are coming out and trying to make that team is absolutely outlandish at this stage. Wyatt Johnston is another guy who’s right there, you know. So, uh, it’s it’s an interesting thing, but Geeky is one that talking with Sophia Jerkowitz, who is, uh, um, a broadcaster for the Boston Bruins. Used to work for Yeah. for Nessen, used to work for um, Sportsnet, uh, had said, um, because I’d said I hadn’t heard a lot about that. Apparently, it’s it’s uh, on fire talking about that in Boston, the idea of Geeky making team Canada. Uh boy, the way he’s scoring right now, a big body player. Um making a good case for himself. Uh can someone brought this up just quickly, is there anything to say about Bman? Someone had said, “Are we going to touch on the Bman media availability?” Yeah, I don’t I mean I think some folks are curious about the you know 1.0 records. Uh to me, that was a good question by Moratash again from the Athletic. Yeah, I mean there it’s it’s if it was an easy answer, they’d already have the records back. But the fact that they that Gary Bman did not dismiss it outright to me leads me to believe all efforts will be made to get those records back to Winnipeg. I don’t know how they’re going to, you know, try to shovel it together, but I think they’ll find a way to make it work. And again, that’s how I see it. Don’t you agree? I I do and I think it will happen. I’m just having an hard time understanding, you know, and give credit to Mark Chipman, who is the one that was made clear is leading the charge on this, right? Um, I always do remember this when the first Heritage Classic happened. uh we did this thing where we did just a 10-minute live broadcast and part of it uh you know as the Jets were out on the ice practicing sorry their not the Jets but the uh their their alumni team and I had a conversation with Mark Chipman and the one thing that always stood out for me with that was like just an absolute diehard Jets fan you know like maybe the biggest Jets fan in the city who just happened to be able to go out and be the guy who brought the team back. Um, so, you know, it means a ton to him as he’s proven time and time again with, you know, some of the old names that are up in the building. He’s already doing his part to kind of reclaim the history, but bringing those records back is something that he clearly wants to do. Give him credit for that. Um, I get it. I just I I don’t understand what’s taking so long at this stage. I mean, and I know that there’s they’re looking at different examples. I don’t know how much is changing. I mean, pick the best example and and probably do so in a way where where you allow uh you know that they’d said whatever happens in the end is people aren’t going to be 100% happy with how that goes. But I think I think the person who should be driving the bus on this should be Mark Chipman and the Winnipeg Jets organization. Um and that the NHL should kind of be like, you know, well, we’ll follow suit. Maybe that’s what’s happening. But I honestly do think it should be the pitch by the Winnipeg Jets and the NHL saying, “This is what we can live with. This is what we can live with. This is what we can live with.” Because in the end, those records belong to the city of Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Jets hockey fans. So, it should be them making the the the the not demands, but suggesting what should be coming back and as much of what can be accommodated should be accommodated by the NHL. And again, I think that it will, but again, this it’s we know it was not exactly a clean break with the Coyotes ownership scenario. So, I’m wondering if just maybe a little more time needs to elapse uh before that gets sorted out. Yeah, I guess. Yeah, that’s a very good point. Okay, that’s it for us. Oh, go on. And we want to see an alumni game and so does Gary, even though he didn’t come right out and say it. And how much of a different alumni game is it going to be this time around? I mean, like, if you think about the last time it was like both, you know, the Oilers, it was basically the 80s. It was the 80s teams coming out there. And I was starting to think of like, my goodness, you brought up Andre Pav, could they get Buff back out on the ice? Is Blake Wheeler and Brian Little going to be out there, right? Like, yes. I mean, the Winnipeg Jets alumni team could be guys that we were talking into the dressing room like three years ago, right? like you’re starting to and that’s the fascinating part of GST. There you go. Yeah, exactly. There’s there’s lots of choices. Christopher, you know that I mean it could go on and on, but this team is going to we were actually starting to or I can’t remember who I was talking to, but but the fascinating part about it is like who would the original Jets be? Like Tim Ulani could still be going. He’s only 55 years old. I’m sure he’d look great out there. But are we at the stage where it’s like, are guys like Dave Ellott and those guys going to be handing it on to the next generation of alumni? There’s there’s a lot of Winnipeg Jets that could fill th that role. Uh and Canadians for that matter. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no doubt. No doubt. Should be great. Yes. Okay. All right. That’s it uh for us. Thank you very much uh for tuning in. Next game is going to be hockey night in Canada as the formidable Washington Capitals come rolling into town. We will chat with you after that, folks. Thanks for coming along for the ride. Talk to you later. Bye-bye.

Jets get the start they are looking for, then it all fell apart. Total team loss on the way to a 6-3 Bruins victory.

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