Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Jets Lose 11 Straight… Something HAS To Change 😬 w/TSN's Darren Dreger | BB Clips

Episode Date: January 10, 2026

Boomer, Pinder and Rhett are joined by TSN’s Darren Dreger to break down the Winnipeg Jets’ brutal skid, now sitting at 11 straight losses. What happens next for this team? Something has to give, and Dreger speculates that a trade could be coming — but just how big will it be? The guys discuss whether a major shake-up is needed, what pieces could be moved, and how desperate things have become in Winnipeg.VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/77oCqtsqs_s#nhl #nhlshorts #nhlplayoffs #nhlpredictions #nhlhockey #nhlpicks #stanleycup #stanleycupfinal #winnipegjets #winnipeg CHECK OUT OUR STUFF ⬇️BARN BURNER MERCHhttps://nationgear.ca/collections/shirts/FlamesnationBARN BURNER SHORTS https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj_bcGtvvo-cW2DHEDZ6dEO5ePDmlhZc9&si=jo8iNGxT4ImhS2Y8📲 Follow us:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fnbarnburner/X (Twitter): https://x.com/barnburnerfn?lang=en🎧 Listen on:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/barn-burner-boomer-pinder-with-rhett-warrener/id1648562889Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mc6Qd5U22R2zbMlQ7RxIiProducer: Jack Haverstock Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's now, what, 11 straight losses in Winnipeg. They had a 3-1 lead late in the second. They give up a McDavid goal before the break and then a couple more to lose in regulation. I watched the Arneal Presser last night just to see, you know, and obviously he's frustrated and is, you know, hasn't shaved, has got the furnace face going, he's all red. It feels like, and I don't know,

I don't know who comes in and replaces, but it kind of has that feel like almost like Edmonton when they were in that tail spent a couple years ago to start the season. It's like, well, we just, we're going to, we need to do something. And I guess it worked. It feels like the Jets have to do something. Yeah. But for me, it feels more like a trade.

And how significant a deal are we talking about here? You know, shovel day off in his midseason availability talked about wanting to add scoring. Okay, well, what are we talking about? Because any scorer in the NHL with term left, and Winnipeg really isn't interested in rentals. They want a player with term. When a productive forward isn't likely being traded,

who's got term remaining on his contract. So a lot of teams, including Winnipeg, have either just gone through, they're going into their pro and amateur scouting meetings. And they would have whiteboards all over those boardrooms with names from every team in the league. Could this be a possibility? Scouting staff, what do you think?

Find me a young up-and-coming player that maybe hasn't quite popped yet. and needs a fresh start. Like a Zegra says an example, right? You know, he goes from Anaheim to Philadelphia, and Rick Tocke, you know, clearly is getting what he needs from Trevor Zegris, and there's a willingness from Zegra's perspective

to learn how to be a better player than he was in Anaheim. I think that that's really what Winnipeg is looking at before they're lucky at axing Scott Arneill. You know, he's got a bit of term left on his deal. The general manager, shoveled a-off, he has term left on his deal. He's too good to get rid of shovel day off. He's done a good job there.

He has done a good job. President's trophy last year. Man, it's crazy what's happening. So what do we talk about then? You know, we're talking about trying to improve the roster. And that's where it gets really dangerous and tricky. Because if you're looking to add a piece that's going to matter, who's in that deal? Logan Stanley?

Is there another younger piece? Like, you know what I'm saying? right? I know exactly what you're saying. You can't keep throwing first round draft picks out there. My response to you is what I told. If Shevoldeoff cared what I thought, it would be like, it's the same thing I said to you about Bill Zito. Yeah.

Don't do anything. So, yeah. This is not your year. Like, you're at 35 points right now. Yeah. You need 60, what? You need 58 points the rest of the way? And again, the silver lining is, oh, shoot, we had an awful year.

go picking the top five, that would help them a lot. You get a Verhoff or like Stembourg, Mechaner. Like that's the, that's the fix. So you guys get another draft pick the other way. Yeah. And I honestly, based on the players that I'm seeing play, you know, they're testing. They're maybe not doing it enough to keep the media and the market comfortable in Winnipeg. They are looking at the Manitoba Moose.

And you're seeing players come into the equation now at the expense of older guys. you think Nino Nita Ryder is happy that he's been a healthy scratch? He's pissed. No, he is. But that's a veteran player who doesn't feel like it's fair, and that's not the right approach. Gus Nyquist, not happy. He hasn't scored a goal. He's got zero goals

for Winnipeg. Luke Chen is another one. Like, Luke Chen, to me, is a tradable commodity. You know, you're going to get him for a deeper draft pick, right? You know, he's slow, but he's still got a level of toughness. He still can defend. There's a team that will have interest in Luke Chen. For me, that's what I'd be doing, Red.

I wouldn't be trying to do anything drastic, but I'd be moving out some of these older pieces and trying to figure out what you have. Like Brad Lambert has wanted out of Winnipeg reportedly all year long. I mean, he's got pace. This kid can skate. He obviously doesn't fit the eye of Scott or Neal, or he'd be playing in the National Hockey League, you know. Billy Honola, like go down the list.

So I think that's probably more of the direction we're going to see Winnipeg going and is making sure they know what they have and what they don't have in these young guys. I just, we looked at it because the Flames said Montreal two nights ago, they're the youngest team in the league. And while I was looking at how young in the flame, like, oh, shit, Winnipeg is the oldest team in the league. Oldest team. And if you tell me that they're playing slow and they're not going to get a

viz in a season from Hallibuck and they've only got three guys that are scoring and everyone else seven, like, yeah, they need to get younger. Agreed. And again, the trick. part is how do you do that. You stand, Pat, you don't trade your pick away. I think maybe I've told this story, but it goes back to the Eric Stahl draft in Carolina eons ago, right? Paul Maurice told the story, but he was head coach of the Carolina Hurricanes at the time. Jim Rutherford was the GM. They had an okay start to the year, but things started to trend downward.

And by the midpoint of the season, January 1st, you know, I think they were out of the playoffs at that point. And Rutherford literally went to his head coach, Maurice, and said, sorry man you're not getting any help there there there there is this kid stall that i've got my eye on and if we've got a shot at drafting this guy we're drafting that guy so i'm not making any trades to make this team better and if i do make trades it's because i'm positioning us to make sure like winnipeg is going to be a lottery team right they're going to be a lottery first this is where the gm hat gets fun to have on and I'm I was just going to say

spoiler alert they did get stall and then they won a Stanley Cup if you want to know how that story is draft and I work up when you when you look at the bottom of the standings in the NHL it's all Western conference teams wow this is the concern as a fan of the Calgary Flames where you can push pause and you can kick the can

down the road but what happens if Winnipeg trades someone and to the team you think you're going to move a guy to and now you're getting peanuts and now they drop further and they get McKenna or like Vancouver and Winnipeg are positioned to get two high picks

and who's the other team that's right there too like you're talking about teams that you're going to have to play down the road that could position themselves better like wow that is a huge gamble I know St. Louis

Doug Armstrong man he's an old gunslinger right and Robert Thomas's name has been out there for a while. Well, why is it out there again more recently? It's because Army's got the bait on the end of the line, and he's not fishing for just a middle of the road sort of return. No, he's looking for a team that is maybe overachieving a little bit or feels like, okay, we're a playoff team, but a piece like that is going to really give us a push,

especially in the east. That's what he's fishing for a return that includes probably a couple of prospects or a high pick, right? And so far nobody's biting on that. But that's why you do it. And another part of the reason why you do it, yes, it's because of everything you just said,

but Doug Armstrong is smart enough to look at the Western Conference and go, well, even if we write the ship here, there's no bloody way we're going to beat the Colorado Avalanche or the Dallas Stars. and we're probably not going to do well against Minnesota, to name but a few. So what are we doing here? You know, it may not be a full rebuild,

but let's move out some pieces that have proven that they're okay players, but they haven't proven anything that they're going to lead us into a deep position. So let's cut bait, and that's what he's doing. McDavid, McKinnon, Baudard. Celebrity. Celebrini. Who else is out here? That's good.

Anaheim has some stars. It looks like they're going to be. all right. You've got some superstars. You've got to get to the Dallas stars organized Minnesota, Capriso, like, yeah. Oh, yeah. Let's, oh, whoa, we get in.

There's a channel. Dallas is going to be a player here, right? By a trade. I mean, yeah. Again, money? Yeah. Yeah. And everybody.

You know, Dallas is like Vegas, like Colorado, like everybody wants to go there. So even the players that we don't even know we're going to be. available to the full trade protection. Hey, we got a call and Dallas is interested. What do you think? Yeah, bags are packed. Let's go. I don't have, I'm, I would be a terrible GM apparently, because I'd

be like, I'm not going to sit here and wait this out and hope that it comes to me. Like, I'll be damned if I'm not going to get somebody in return. You're not, you're not wrong, but, you know, there has to be a partner

in that process.