Winnipeg Jets Playoff media availability | Coach Rick Bowness

With his team trailing 3-1 in their first round series with the Avs we heard from Jets head coach Rick Bowness today. The team is off but he spoke about their game 4 loss, making adjustments, looking ahead of game 5, provided health updates and more.
Topics:
1) What needs to be done to keep series going?
2) Conveying strategy to the players (1:15)
3) Lack of intensity? (2:09)
4) Test of this team's unity with three straight losses (3:28)
5) Latest on Vlad Namestnikov? Did he need surgery? Is he out? (3:55)
6) Updates on Brenden Dillon and Morgan Barron? (4:23)
7) Would he be surprised to see Namestnikov play tomorrow? (4:51)
8) Is Cole Perfetti an option and thought process behind move (5:21)
9) Connor Hellebuyck as a Vezina Finalist (5:35)
10) Has the team done enough to help Hellebuyck? (6:33)
11) Chance they've gotten against Alexandar Georgiev? (6:44)
12) Is he making changes to forwards/defence? (7:34)
13) Solutions not excuses (7:44)

[@STEM-inist]

Glad to here Vladdy is going to be okay.

[@bhavdeeprehal8827]

Bowness beat Bednar when he was the Stars coach. He’s been around. Some say he’s a dinosaur but he is right - giving the Avs the power play is partly why the Jets are where they are

[@brandonjerue1205]

Im an Avs Fan, but at the end of the day, we're all hockey fans. #belove 💪❤

[@RudyjrMast-lr8bd]

Simply out played.😊

[@ODD1357]

Man, if there’s one thing I can say it’s I wish they had split the workload more evenly between buck and brossoit. He’s a hell of a goalie, especially for a backup, and it’d maybe give buck enough space to breathe instead of trying to literally carry our team. I know it’s not bucks fault, he is THE goalie in the nhl, but maybe cut him some slack. Wish we could make changes that will have a more effective outcome, feels too little too late now, but it’s not over till it’s over, GO JETS GO!

[@lawrencemorrison2227]

Maybe sending 2 players in to forecheck is a mistake against a team with that much speed?

[@philhugill8458]

Great Coach !!!!!

[@archie_bunker]

ahahahaha

[@rovinmangal4675]

Jets hopefully win Tuesday!!

[@73Ambassador]

At this point, the only thing more embarrassing than being a Jets fan is being a Leafs fan. And that's as low as it gets.

[@mcloggerton9185]

Sabres fan?

[@73Ambassador]

@@mcloggerton9185 Yes, that too, lol, but I meant teams in the playoffs.

[@ipsbz]

​@@73AmbassadorThat's a very good observation 😂

[@alangoddard8252]

32 TEAMS IN THIS LEAGUE.18 ARE DONE.JETS ARE IN IT UNTIL THEY HAVE LOST 4😊

[@user-ut2vk6vf5l]

Why aren’t we scoring goals??? Getting more shots??? You can’t win a playoff game with 1 or 2 goals.

[@waydown1956]

It’s so easy to blame the coach. But the reality is the players aren’t doing what the coaches are asking. And for 55 to say they have made adjustments and we haven’t is such a cop out and not taking individual responsibility. He is -6 in the last 3 games because he doesn’t commit to a 200 ft game. No adjustment will chance that, take some personal accountability for your poor play

[@bhavdeeprehal8827]

Well said. The players haven’t made the adjustments

[@toasty862]

Exactly. This is basically on 55 and 81 floating LIKE THEY ALWAYS DO. They are Matthews and Marner tier soft. You can't win with guys like this. They wont do what needs to be done.

[@meagainandagain5756]

Bones looks tired for sure. He’s taken us this far. But, if the Avs have changed their strategy against us, then what should we do? Will what got us here work with this faster more intense version of the Avs?

[@rohan5150]

It doesn't look like the avs changed their strategy all that much. They just ramped up the intensity a whole bunch and the Jets just haven't done that

[@rohan5150]

The Jets were the best defensive team in the league! This isn't on Hellebuyuck. The team has been playing poorly in front of him. The in ability to get the puck out of the d-zone and the giveaways are killing the Jets; Offensive or defensive. Shut the Avs down. Block them up in the neutral zone. Challenge them harder in the d-zone instead of giving them space and backing off. Attack the puck and puck carrier. Build the offense off that. Simple enough?

[@rychristo]

Let's Go Avalanche! Playing light out at the Right Time. I am extremely surprised as the Jets had our number all Year and now the tables have completely turned.

[@JoanHayes-mh2jx]

Please play Laurent in net I think let both play the same game in the net that way your favourite Goalie doesn’t have to save the game

[@CanforCanadainsfirst]

sorry but unless a miracle we are not beating mac and makar

[@jetsdude8]

It's almost like the entire point behind signing broissoit was to play him after hellebyuck choked the first 2 games

[@CGMedia2023]

Frankly, Broissoit should have started every game after game 2.

[@Tlilancalqui]

Intensity is a poor thing to focus the mind on attaining because it cannot last long and comes and goes. The clearer that you can see your objective the less relevant intensity is. For example a baby can scream and holler an entire day, without losing intensity, but a teenager will run themselves out of energy in no time. The baby knows that this screaming is it's only life line, it's not going to over scream, it will find it's stride, but the kid has other means, so it's not his last hope. The key to staying mentally engaged is that what you are doing is your last hope... Everything that you are doing is with the hope of scoring a goal. And if the score is 20-0 everything that you are doing is to score another goal. Winning is not a focus, you cannot get winning, you have to get goals.

[@steveb9381]

TOFFOLI PLAYING TO NOT GET HURT FOR NEXT CONTRACT. SIT HIS ASS FOR PERFETTI

[@mrmanitoba]

I'll throw 50 on the Avs

[@WW3_Soon]

Bones’ Dallas Stars lost the Stanley Cup to the Lightning due to his terrible coaching.

[@73Ambassador]

At least they made the cup finals though. JETS NEVER made the cup finals. I'd be happy with making it to the 2nd round at this point.

[@jonathanbouthillette753]

Jets made it to the conference final under pomo in 2018​@73Ambassador

[@alelectric2767]

Lightening were pretty staked thou

[@73Ambassador]

@@jonathanbouthillette753 I said CUP FINALS! please read my comment correctly

[@jonathanbouthillette753]

@@73Ambassador i definitely read your comment quickly haha

[@archie_bunker]

Will just keep showing them the good things? bahahahaha Rick Bowness is a horrible coach..

[@CGMedia2023]

The Jets are reflective of their ownership, false hustle, no heart.

[@perrywilliamcousin7499]

Owner NOTHING LIKE jeTs

[@FrostyBalls21]

Ironic he's doing this interview in front of Miller's stall - the trade acquisition not utilized