Rexy, you fail to see the forest for the trees. Its all about winning this year and Hendricks brings some major assets to the table that the Jets were somewhat lacking. Its not about allowing a developing player on the team a bit faster than he needs to be. They can wait that extra year.
Veteran leadership and hard work, mentoring, winning key face-offs, PK. Hendricks was a very cheap and astute pick-up by the Jets. Guys like Dano do not have most of these assets. Dano is also just too slow for todays faster NHL. Good riddance to him. J.C. Lipon, Roslovic, and Spacek are all way more talented players than Dano....and Dano should have been long gone but its actually Maurice ( plus a lot of injuries last year) that has kept him around for much longer than he should have been.
- jetsnation
Hendricks... bring assets... that Dano doesn't... and Dano is too slow... but Hendricks isn't... this is *frank*ing hilarious. I don't even know where to start.
Hendricks was let go by the Capitals in the middle of their cup window. He was a cap dump for the Predators in the early part of their cup window. He was a healthy scratch by Edmonton in the beginning of their cup window. It's pretty clear that Hendricks is a drag on contending teams. He doesn't produce, he's bad defensively, he plays huge PK minutes because he wins faceoffs, but is so bad at actually killing penalties that he's worse than a 45% faceoff guy like Copp ever could be. He's slow, only getting slower, and lacks any talent of any kind at the NHL level. Dano, however, scores at the rate of an elite 2nd liner, drives the play better than anyone not already in the top 6, and is also the best non-Lowry defensive zone player. He looks slow, his skating is a bit weird, but he's damn good. Columbus knew this, Chicago didn't have time to learn, and Maurice just doesn't learn.