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Post by FrontierSaga on Dec 19, 2004 13:25:04 GMT -5
Lets start with the good:....
1. Drafting Hawerchuk was a no-brainer 2. Beating the Calgary Flames 2 out of 3 times in the playoffs 3. Posting 2 players for Rookie of the Year..Same goes for coaches for coach of the year 4. The White out
Now the bad:...
1. Not putting in Essenssa for the 92 playoffs versus the Canucks...if your up 3-1...put him in not bench him! 2. Not beating the Oilers in game 5 in the 1990 playoffs.. 3. Trading away your star players ( Selanne..Hawerchuk..etc) 4. Hiring a dumb looking fool of a general Manager aka "Mikhail" Smith
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Post by Yar on Dec 20, 2004 12:39:26 GMT -5
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Post by jets4life on Dec 21, 2004 10:43:35 GMT -5
Jets had many good trades and bad trades.
The good:
-Getting Randy Carlyle for next to nothing -The hawerchuk trade. Jets got Housley out of the deal, and Ducky's best years were already behind him. -Domi & King
The bad:
-The Babych trade. Giving away your best defenseman for Ray Neufeld (?) -Giving away Kris Draper and Stu Barnes for next to nothing. -not getting more for Housley from St Louis -the Essensa-Cheveldae trade --giving up Selanne just before the Jets left
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Post by LongingforJets on Dec 22, 2004 12:03:04 GMT -5
bad - giving up Selanne to sign the whiner Keith Tkachuk
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Post by whiteout on Jan 29, 2005 2:17:27 GMT -5
LongingforJets, I gotta agree. I was pretty young at the time/don't know of all the trades that happened in the past, but I know I still hear people bitter about that.
I understand $$ wise, and yes Tverdovsky is good now and Kilger ok..but were talking trading one of the best, if not the best players in the NHL at the time, who the city loved for..well..at the time, nothing. Yet, they go and sign Tkachuk who is a great all-round player, but people had mixed thoughts on him...that trade/whole move strikes me as a REAL bad one.
As for good, again I was young during the Jets era so I dont remember a whole lot, but drafting Hawerchuk and getting King and Domi look like good ones!
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Post by joelzillmanwpg on Jan 29, 2005 2:29:44 GMT -5
The Jets drafting Hawerchuk is what got the Jets cometetive. Hawerchuk was my hero growing up. I wanted to be as good as HIM, not Gretzky, not Kurri, not Bossy,
The Teemu trade wasn't that bad. He was traded a few months before the Jets left town, and everyone knew Phoenix would be their new home. Phoenix might have made the best choice, considering that nobody cares about hockey there, and tickets are a prize that rich corporations give out to its clients/employees.
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Post by hawker14 on Feb 6, 2005 19:34:38 GMT -5
i think the selanne trade was the worst in Jets history.
Selanne was one of the premier offensive players in the league for several seasons after the trade, and who knows how competitive the Coyotes would have been with him.
Kilger, imo, has never amounted to anything more than a fringe NHL checking winger, and Tverdovsky, although loaded with potential, never seemed to really improve after his rookie season. He was basically the same player when he left the league that he was when he came into the league.
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Post by razorsedge on Feb 7, 2005 15:33:42 GMT -5
best...
1. getting rid of mike smith 2. bringing domi for toughness and fan support home and away 3. drafting salanne,tkachuk, zhamnov,thabibulan 4. hawerchuk 5. aquiring housley in the hawerchuk deal (hawerchuk requested to be traded)
worst
1. jimmy mann (so i've heard) 2. tradeing salanne (could have been used for a run in the playoffs since the jets were leaving anyways) 3. playing bauregaurd (he wasn't worth putting in net even in exhibition games) 4. not playing essensa in the playoffs 5. trading for yiesabart (forgive the spelling) from detroit (but who knew he'd be a waste of a jersey) 6. igor ulanov (i really hate him)
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