Agree with you guys fully literally on all points. I think we need as a team to try and re-sign Dilly but I’m worried we may be priced out. If so, we have a decent top 4. Mix in Ville and Salo … there’s a nice looking next few years. Pionk and Schmidty- sorry guys that’s just not good enough to be a legit contending or honestly even a playoff team. Looking forward to the forward talk. Have some strong opinions on some and eager to heart your takes. Please prepare for 27. Jets playoff post-mortem: Skill, speed and SIZE won out. A few passengers hurt our apparent depth advantage. But one could argue any team would have a problem with Nate, Makar, Rant playing 25+ a night mixed in with Lehkonen and Nicushkin bringing it.

Once again a enjoyable conversation too follow..I also agree completely that Demalo Dillion had very good seasons n were not the problem that lies mostly on pionk n partially on Schmidt..mostly for there contracts n pionks chaos..if you can rid the team of those 2 contracts n re sign Demalo n Dillion n incorporate heinola you have a solid 5 ..maybe chychurin n i think that’s a better top 6 then we had this season that won a Jennings..I look forward to the assessment of the forwards

Not going to lie I was hoping for a 10 minute rant on Stanley with special guest CMac. Considering that outside of Ville and Solomonsson who is a righty you might be able to get Dillon at 3 years. Who would be the righty that would be able to play in a top 4 if Pionk and Schmidt are moved?

I think Chevy deinitely has Sunk Cost Fallacy when it comes to Pionk he just cant move on from him due to the fact he was in the Trouba trade. He is determined to make Pionk relevant even at the cost of hurting the team. Dillon is a tough case he will turn 34 in November and I don't see him taking a 2 year deal. My other concern is how lucky the Jets were with injuries last year and Dillon's stlyle of play unfortunately is going to catch up to him sooner or later. It is interesting that everyone keeps talking about upgrading the defence but want to bring back DeMelo and Dillon. Morrissey and Samberg are locked in and very liitle chance you can move both Schmidt's and Pionk's contracts. This would imply that you have 5 slots locked in and in theory Heinola will make this team next year. I definitely think DeMelo should be re-signed but Dillon is risky and if you give him 4 years that contact could look pretty bad after year 2. The playoffs have exposed the lack of speed and skating ability in the defensive group and that needs to be addressed. Definitley some tough decisions to be made before next season.

There are players like Pionk that I think were Bones picks to be core guys, Appy would be another. One thing that could come out of a coaching search is feedback from people outside the org. on players like these 2 who get top minutes and are secondary pieces at best. One of the things the Avs did was every time Pionk came over the boards so did Mackinnon and we saw the results. The Avs were dumping it in of Pionk's side knowing they could pressure him for a turnover