Opening night for the Winnipeg Jets is two and a half weeks away.
There is reason to believe the team will have extensions in place by then with Kyle Connor and captain Adam Lowry.
In Edmonton, there is hand-wringing over Connor McDavid’s “indifferent” responses to re-upping long-term with the Oilers .
The concern is real in Minnesota, if the reports are true that Kirill Kaprizov and his agent rejected an eight-year deal for $16 million per.
But you don’t get that same sense in Winnipeg about how things will eventually play out between Connor and the Jets.
And I also find it very interesting that GM Kevin Cheveldayoff is very quick to add Lowry’s name to the conversation when the talk gets around to contract extensions.
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