Team: 2020-21 Winnipeg Jets

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 26, 2020

Published: Aug. 26, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Listen, I'm no brain genius. To demonstrate that, I spent a couple hours thinking through this trade/acquisition post and when I went to post it I realized I needed an account to post here and lost everything I'd typed. So yeah, not the sharpest puck on the ice. Mostly I just want to see if any of these moves make even a kernel of sense.

I'll rewrite up a condensed version:

1st off, I'm operating under the assumption that Brian Little either retires or goes on LTIR, but really who knows what is going to happen there. I reckon holding on to DeMelo, even though the playoff qualifiers left a poor taste in peoples mouths. I think he did well for us in the season and was an important part of why our penalty kill improved so much. Unless a team is going to overpay him elsewhere, I reckon we could hold on to Brossoit as well without needing to to give him much more. I dont think there's anything too wild about either of those moves.

Here's where things go a bit off the rails. It's a pipe dream, but I would love to see the Jets go after Torey Krug in free agency. Though I'm assuming that we would need to spend extra to bring him up here.

I suspect what will draw more ire here is making a move for Domi. It seems to me that most Jets fans want to go after Anthony Cirelli, but I think he's going to be a hot commodity around the league and I'm not sure that the Jets would be will come out on top of that fight for him. Instead I think we might be able to swing Domi. I get that it's a risky move as he's hardly a guaranteed 2C. but I think there's enough of a chance that he could step into the role and thrive for it to be worth pursuing. Losing Lowry and Heinola would suck, but I reckon they both are valuable trade pieces and I'm not sure that we'd be able to re-sign Lowry next year anyways. The trade feels like an overpay to me, which makes me think it might be fair.

I dunno if Roslovic is going to be able to reach his potential while on the Jets, and I think he might realize that as well. As such I'd rather move him while we still have him under RFA than retain him in the hope the hope that his value might increase. This is really a shot in the dark trade, so I have no idea if this is anywhere close to fair.

so yeah, just gonna kinda throw this at the wall and see if anything sticks. Lemme know if I'm on to anything at all.

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