From the President\u2019s Trophy to missing the playoffs, will the Winnipeg Jets look to do something significant this offseason?<\/p>\n
The Sheet with Jeff Marek<\/a>: David Pagnotta and Jeff Marek talk about the Winnipeg Jets, and if they could look at making a significant move this offseason. Ownerships message will likely always be, that for their market, they need to be winning.<\/p>\n Marek: \u201cI think the Winnipeg Jets again will try to do something. But given it\u2019s going to be a season without playoffs, do you think there\u2019s any way they do something significant here?<\/p>\n Like, I don\u2019t know, when I look at like the big contracts that were handed out and not the most recent one in Kyle Connor<\/a>, but like the (Mark) Scheifele contract or the Connor Hellebuyck<\/a> contract. If the Jets are going to take a small step backwards to lurch forwards, man, you could get a haul for some of the guys they just recently signed to big-ticket deals. You think there\u2019s any chance?\u201d<\/p>\n Pagnotta: \u201cI mean, one of those, it\u2019s, it veers off the direction that ownership has brought in, or, excuse me, instilled. And within that market, you\u2019ve got to be competitive. And I think that\u2019s the message from Mark Chipman down is we got to be competitive. We\u2019ve got to be, you know, a legitimate contender here. And we\u2019ll take this blip in the radar. We\u2019ll take this anomaly. It\u2019s a one off, but next season, we better get our butts back in the postseason.<\/p>\n And we need the Hellebuyck\u2019s, the Scheifele\u2019s, the Connor\u2019s, the Morrissey\u2019s and so on, to be the ones that are driving this ship.<\/p>\n What they looked for all season, obviously, weren\u2019t able to replace was Nic Ehlers and the secondary scoring. And they had looked around the league, how can we bring in two guys on our second line, or at least one for now, that can play and mesh with Cole Perfetti<\/a> and go from there?<\/p>\n Now, as they were exploring, some teams were saying, well, just give us Cole Perfetti, and then we can have a nice conversation. And that didn\u2019t really get too far.<\/p>\n