What Id like to see happen but wont

Team: 2020-21 Winnipeg Jets

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 12, 2020

Published: Dec. 12, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

At this point this is what I'd like to see happen but I know it won't as the Jets organization loves Lowry, Chevy is too risk averse to do this(or almost anything most of the time) and Granlund likely chooses almost anywhere other then Winnipeg to sign with unfortunately.

I think if the Jets could convince Granlund to sign it'd be a good move for both sides, the Jets add a Finnish playmaker to play with Laine and Granlund gets to increase his numbers playing on the Jets top line with the hopes of finding a better payday next offseason, Winnipeg has goal scorers but not enough playmakers imo, think that's a decent contract for one season considering the market and season he had, doubt Granlund is going to get much more whether he signs a short or longer term deal, do think he'll be signing a short term deal though.

Drop Wheeler to the 3rd line for softer match ups and give Roslovic two veteran wingers to help him develop at center, if Perreault doesn't rebound move Harkins up or Copp, either would be fine, that'd be the Jets best 3rd line in a very long time and would hopefully be able to chip in offensively which is something the Jets have never had and has always been it's downfall imo.

That'd be a good 4th line, I checked and that Lowry trade fits for the Pens, if they'd rather keep Jankowski that's fine, just replace him with some other league minimum body, needs to be a forward though.

Signed Koekkoek as most everyone speaks well of him so why not.. Lol.. Honestly haven't watched a lot of him but the Jets defense is still not good and I'm sure he's an improvement over the guys they currently have, he was a former 1st round pick and isn't old so who knows, maybe it works well, at the very least adds another NHL dman and the Jets seem to get a lot of injuries to their dmen every year it seems, depth on D is good to have. Don't mind the guys the Jets added on D but if Koekkoek is better then Forbort then sign the guy. Samberg develops in the AHL for a year and Heinola stays in Finland playing top minutes and his ELC slides which will help in the long run.

To me there just isn't a quick fix to the Jets weak defense and it's NOT worth trading Ehlers, Laine or Connor for a dman in my opinion so building more offense through all the forward lines is what this team should be doing if it has aspirations of making the playoffs and trying to make some noise.
Run a more offense driven game with scoring throughout three lines, a not useless 4th line and try to get by with the defense you have until some prospects are hopefully ready to make the jump in another year or two. Would be tough to go anywhere with this defense but ya never know, teams have won/gone deep with pretty average D cores before though this defense is still worse then average I'd say.

So what say you CapFriendly critics, would this trade, signings and line shuffling help the Jets or would it make no difference at all, I look forward to your comments below but let's keep them constructive, thanks!