If the Jets Standpat for one more year

Team: 2022-23 Winnipeg Jets

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 13, 2022

Published: Apr. 13, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

After this season concludes, the Winnipeg Jets organization will be conducting a bottom to top audit of their team. Based off of this audit, if the Jets management decide to stick it out for one more year to ride it out with the current core to get another crack at winning the cup, they will likely just be making minor tweaks to their team. As you can see below, just a couple minor trades done, a UFA resigning in Paul Stastny, a big RFA signing in PLD and the younger RFA prospects as well. Obviously there has been a lot of talk surrounding this team regarding team culture. Many times and I know many Jets fans will agree, it just seems like this leadership group as of right now does not have what it takes. If the Jets organization decides to ride try one more time with this group of guys, it does not mean at all however, that changes to the way things are to be done won't be made. The Jets will definitely be looking at different team systems and different ways of approaching the game, as their system now is obviously not getting through to the team. One of the things I believe the Jets will explore this summer (if they decide to keep Schiefele) will be to move Scheifele to the wing. I explained it in the Evgeny Svechnikov trade but basically, Paul Stastny had made a comment recently about "getting bored of the wing" and wanting to move back to centre, as he was playing the defensive game of a centremen on the wing anyway. It was also potentially a shot at teammates Mark Scheifele, who has consistently shown that he has no care for the defensive side of the game at all. If the Jets were to resign Stastny and place him at centre, this could take a big weight off Mark Schiefele's shoulders and let him play his game (offensive scoring) without any heavy defensive responsibilities. At the end of the day, something needs to change with this team and although I am not gonna pretend that moving him to the wing will solve all the Jet's problems, I definitely think it is worth trying. If Scheifele was also to be placed on the wing, it could also provide more depth throughout the lineup (as you can see on my lineup, Mark Scheifele in the #1 RW spot impacts the whole lineup and allows Wheeler to play on the third line with Perfetti joining the top 6).

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