Quoting: tsyls
Look at Pionks career with the jets. He’s been a #5 dman at best based on stats, with the exception of the all Canadian division year in which he had a great year. Other than that he’s been below average for the jets.
Also yeah, not sure Meier signs here long term but worth a shot.
Jets need an upgrade on D badly.
Unless Meier is coming extended already in a sign and trade its not worth the risk.
Really what stats say Pionk was the Jets #5 dman compared to the rest of the Jets trash dmen in the 19-20 season?? Any stats that say the likes of Poolman, Bitetto, Kulikov, Beaulieu were better then Pionk should go in the trash!
*To be fair Kulikov was actually pretty decent in his last year in Winnipeg and has gotten good reviews since moving on from what I can tell from other teams fans reactions, maybe its a Jets issue?.. lol
And let's be honest, until this season Morrissey has been pretty iffy and downright bad a lot of games since the latter half of the 18-19 season, many were calling for him to be traded and now he's a Norris trophy candidate.. lol
Most Jets fans thought Forbort sucked, now he's averaging 18 minutes a game for the best team in the league.
Idk, Pionk has mostly struggled this year but there's been some good mixed in there too, can say that about pretty much every Jets dman other then JoMo though, still a bottom 10 defense in the league imo and Idk if a team could win with a low ranked defense.
Do agree the upgrade on D is very much needed, need someone to pair with Morrissey who can eat minutes and ultimately move DeMelo down to the 2nd or 3rd pair and as unpopular as this will be it'll get Samberg out of the lineup, while better then Stanley he hasn't been all that great, like wtf was he doing on that second Blues goal last night?.. lol