The Adam Lowry news might be one of the single biggest (and worst) pieces of news this Winnipeg Jets off-season has had. Lowry needing hip surgery increases the immediate need for a second-line centre, and may very well impact the sort of player he is for the foreseeable future. Does this mean Winnipeg now needs to make an even bigger swing for a roster upgrade this summer? Why is Lowry’s presence so critical to everything the Jets want to do on the ice? How does this news interplay with the increasing likelihood that Ehlers walks in free agency? Are the Jets in danger of falling out of the playoffs next season if their summer is quiet, or can they find internal improvements?
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7 Comments
Atleast he's be on ltir so we'd have 3M more
Nik, go get your bag in free agency. You deserve it. You'll be missed but you deserve to play on a team where you'll be appreciated and properly deployed. He's been misused for years on this team. And all the culture and family and strong leadership doesn't erase this fact. Why should he commit to spending his whole career with the Jets to just continue to be misused?
And really, it's an indictment on the organization and their inflexible ways over the years that have lead to this. And they can say the culture has been fixed all they want, but it's still a hierarchy structure where certain players get special treatment compared to others.
I really hope this is not a repeat of 2018, where the organization was just happy with the season, and was just content with maintaining the status quo, instead of building on the success. But we're all familiar with the front office philosophy.
Nic is a great player. Is not really defensively sound, abd very injury prone. Would love him to stay but if he does go time to change . We have players in the wings and some change on the horizon. We cant go bigger than our franchise can afford plus some dont want to come here anyway. . Time for the youth and player trades
If lowrys not same player and we don't make at least 2 forward trades we could have a down year and would jets pay Connor 11-13m? Is it enough considering taxes,success or would a team like Vegas,Tampa,Rangers,alot of NHL be willing pay him more?
Unlike marner and ehlers just walking we need asset management with Connor if jets can't make it work trade him this offseason for a package that helps us. Maybe we can get 2 good roster players/younger rfa or a 1b center. Or a really good 1for1 ik unlikely could you get a package Jarvis,Guenther/Hayton,Lafreneire
A deal like Kasper+1st+more
Fantilli/KentJohnson/Marchenko
Barzal/Horvat
Hertl/Karlsson/Howden+
Cirelli+Geekie+
McTavish+something else Sennecke/Pick/Zegras.
Now your looking at a huge return if it's KFC. With 1yr left. Even if it's another really good top 6+ 1st/picks you can use those picks/guys like lambert/heinola/Freijs ect in a 2nd deal and have 2 really good players/stars. Like the Toronto media always uses Marner situation instead of letting him walk or his 13m cap can have 2 really good players+ we have more assets/cap to use.
Ik fans/Scheifele might not like moving on from Connor but if we could get a really good player+ then make a 2nd trade it will give us a new look and a future.
Ex Connor(Signed) for Mctavish(RFA)+pick
2nd deal use that pick and Lambert/ other assets get a Peterka.
Now it's
Peterka Scheifele Villardi
Perfetti McTavish Blank
Nino Lowry Chibrikov
Iafallo Namestnikov Kupari
Barron
Peterka 23yrs old and McTavish 22 just an example. Or use that blank 2nd spot for a marchessault/Kadri/Garland/Debrusk/WilliamKarlsson someone wanting clear cap or rebuild/need change.
Your depressing af
do modern day Jets fans have disdain for the Edmonton Oilers? These Jets were the old Atlanta Thrashers, while the old Jets, who won three AVCO Cups in the WHA, are now the Utah Mammoths (aka Phoenix Coyotes)? The old Jets had a pretty intense rivalry with Wayne Gretzky's Oilers back in the 80s.