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Winnipeg Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff free agent frenzy media availability

When Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff spoke with us in the Matt Frost Media Centre his club had made two moves on the first day of free agency adding goalie Eric Comrie back to the fold on a two-year deal and goalie Kaapo Kahkonen to a one-year deal.

Please Note: If you’re wondering why he wasn’t asked about signing Colin Miller to a two-year deal it is because this signing happened after this media availability.

Topics:

1) Adding a pair of goalies to the organization.
2) Schmidt bought out to provide flexibility (:40)
3) Was it frustrating not getting something done with more space? (1:21)
4) Was the barrier with Sean Monahan term? (2:07)
5) Is there an opportunity for Lambert, Perfetti, Vilardi as 2C? (3:23)
6) How might today’s moves potentially change Rutger McGroarty’s situation? (4:01)
7) Opportunity for Ville Heinola & Elias Salomonsson to earn jobs (4:27)
8) Striking balance between youth integration with inexperience? (5:16)
9) Was he surprised by the flurry of moves today? (6:40)
10) What kind of growth from Jets prospects on Moose did he see last season? (7:16)
11) Potential for Eric Comrie be a good mentor to Thomas Milic (8:47)
12) What does he think about the strengthening of the Central? (9:33)
13) The RFA process (10:37)
14) Has anything changed organizationally re: cap spending? (11:16)
15) Garrett Brown/Nikita Chibrikov/Markus Loponen (12:32)

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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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