Jets Have a Surplus of Defencemen and Need to Make a Move
The NHL’s regular season is set to start in just over 60 days. General manager Kevin Cheveldayoff last summer, and those moves have created a logjam on the teams’ defensive depth chart. Either they crack the NHL now and make a long-earning career out of it, or they remain in the AHL for another two seasons and become career depth players. The Jets currently have five defencemen under contract through the end of the 2023-24 season and three under contract for another season after that. The other prime trade option would be Schmidt, who enjoyed a bounce-back season after struggling mightily with the Vancouver Canucks during the 2020-21 season....
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