The Jets' extensions for Hellebuyck and Scheifele revealed a previously unusual strategy for the organization.
WINNIPEG — The negotiated matching, massive contract extensions for , their franchise goaltender, and , their No. 1 centre, and kept negotiations such a secret that the news wasn’t leaked. That’s the Jets organization operating exactly as we have come to know it from the day Scheifele became its first draft pick. Advertisement Recall that Mark Chipman broke big news when he invited Kevin Cheveldayoff to the podium at the 2011 draft to make the first pick “on behalf of the Winnipeg Jets.
I’ve argued that the Jets have held on to players and personnel long after the time had come to move on from them. Here we have a case of the Jets deepening their long-term relationships with two of their most important players by being open and candid — and just in time, based on what Hellebuyck said about his mind wandering. Cheveldayoff characterized the conversations he had with Hellebuyck and Scheifele as “heart to heart.
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