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... about the situation is- Gentlemen, is that everybody's on, on bated breath here waiting for this game tonight.

The, the debut of Stuart Skinner and, of course, the claiming of Clay Stevenson on waivers.

But, uh, you know, w- we heard all summer what may or may not be going on, and then we saw the draft and no deal was done.

And then we got into August and saw the public request, and then we heard around training camp that the request was originally made back in April on exit day, uh, to be traded from the Winnipeg Jets.

What I discovered at training camp this year when we had Kevin Cheveldayoff on and we had Josh Morrissey on live, and seeing them face-to-face is ...

And then hearing Kyle Connor speak, they're hurt.

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Jim, can Stuart Skinner be the starter the Jets need?

We used to try and get the girls from the smoke machine like that gentleman just mentioned to come watch our basketball games, but they had no interest, unfortunately.

Yeah, Stuart Skinner's interesting, right? I've been very hard on him in his time in Edmonton because I think Edmonton just needed better goaltending, and I was wondering why they were so, you know, sticking with Stuart Skinner and not going and finding one.

And maybe that's not so much a knock on him, but I like what he said when he came in, and he's such a great guy.

Uh, he's at that stage of his career where you start to sort of get into a rhythm and, and, and take your goaltending to a next level.

And he wants to work with Wade, Wade Flaherty.

Can Stuart Skinner play really good in goal? Yes, he can.

But Jim, how much time will Scott Arneal give Cole Perfetti on that top line before he's tempted to swap 91 for Gabe Velarde? Well,

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... on social media, um, I, I, I don't, like, I'm not into where every player is at and everything like that.

Obviously, the Quinn Hughes deal was big, and then, then I kinda wonder what the future of it is and then, you know, where, where the Canucks are sort of.But I don't know much about Elias Pettersson or how happy he is.

I know that at the end of the season, he said he didn't wanna leave Vancouver and all that.

Um, but it, to me, what's changed around his situation from afar is the fact that Vancouver's in the situation they are.

So, A, does he wanna be there for the remainder of this contract? Um, a- and does he want a fresh start? But also, B, like, does he wanna go through a rebuild process and, and be, uh, a part of that? So I just thought of the idea of, look, if, if the Jets need a second line center, and in two to three years, probably that center would be a first line center, the Robert Thomases of the world come up, names like that.

But that's a division rival, and I don't know if they have the cachet or, and the, the, the, uh, sort of assets to go get a player like Robert Thomas and then also convince him.

Um, what does that say about the Winnipeg Jets, and how big a blow has that been for the Jets?

Mm-hmm.

A- and, or, or, and I don't know which player did, again, but it was, it was under eight for both of them in 23 games.

And I'm like, to ask those guys to kick in four more points each over 23 games is not asking too much.

And they just couldn't, right? So, um, I think if you, yeah, I think they have to take some risks.

I think they have to take seriously a hard look at ED.

And, and look, if anybody had a problem with a player coming in making 11 million when nobody else does other than Kyle Connor, you just sit down and go, "You guys are the ones who wanna win.

You're the ones who've been saying, you know, in the exit meetings that, that we gotta be bold.

... to churn the, to churn the lineup like you expect to do so at the bottom of the lineup this year.