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Winnipeg Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff concluding availability of the 2020 NHL Draft

Topics:

1. Balance of their drafting.
2. His thoughts on Daniel Torgersson.
3. What are the Finnish/Swedish programs doing to produce such good players?
4. Did he consider trading one pick into two or were they targeting certain players?
5. What is his assessment of Anton Johannesson and Tyrel Bauer.
6. Signing Dylan DeMelo and how it impacts their approach to free agency.
7. How would he characterize the trade market and did he notice more calls during the draft?
8. Does he expect it to be busy ahead of free agency?
9. How unique it is given the current reality.
10. Is his next move gonna be within his group of UFAs or does he anticipate it being a move outside of that?
11. The relief getting an area of concern (defence) resolved?
12. Have they created any sort of schedule given a January 1st start projected?
13. Are the centre/blueline still equally areas of need given the DeMelo signing?

David Minuk

Working hard on a daily basis to provide the latest Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose news for our readers and listeners. I also appear on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show every Saturday on our YouTube channel as well as the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show after every single Jets game. And I occasionally jump in the play-by-play booth at Canada Life to provide colour analysis during Manitoba Moose games.

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