32 Thoughts | Whenever the Winnipeg Jets thinks they have a chance, they add

In the written version of the 32 Thoughts Podcast that Sportsnet’s insider Elliotte Friedman released yesterday which was entitled ‘Trade talk beginning to pick up across the league’ (read it here) which begins with this sentence “Talk has picked up, and will continue to do so” in thought number one.

We’ve detailed the historic nature of the Jets 9-1-0 start to the 2024-25 season.

Friedman wrote about the NHL club of Winnipeg in thought 7 saying:

“Whenever Winnipeg thinks it has a chance, it adds. Watching the Jets’ blazing 9-1 start, the one thing that stands out is the size of their defence. You have to be mobile, you have to be skilled, but you have to be big. The recent Stanley Cup champions had that in common: a long, agile, aggressive defence that always seemed to have a body, a stick, an arm or a leg in your way. A thicket for opposition to navigate. NHL heights and weights can be deceiving, but the Jets’ sizes — minus Dylan Samberg, Logan Stanley and Haydn Fleury — are the smallest since the 2018 Washington Capitals. That doesn’t mean you can’t win, but it certainly flies in the face of what’s recently worked.”

Not really anything too earth shattering here but some food for thought as some teams continue to stumble and perhaps might be interested in offloading some assets.