Whileee
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Beyond the vast improvement in prospect depth, its not a slam dunk to me.
Still have a good top 6 F & a bottom 6 that may be OK (or maybe won't - time will tell if many of those guys will make a successful career). So, improvement but not massive.
D -- came in with a good young top 4 and minimal support afterwards. Still have a good but not young top 4 & very little afterwards. No improvement.
G -- Pavs was sold as an up & comer. He should be long gone but he's still here with another in a long rotation of backups. Need to rely on our prospects for the future.
So, yes he has improved our prospect depth but we had nothing coming in so an improvement was unavoidable. Nevertheless, I'm giving him full marks for the P improvement. Beyond that though, too little improvement, to much dittling in between, too many silly contracts & unneccessary signings.
C- is as high as I'd ever give him at this point. Is his job in danger, not a chance -- Chipman will resign him for the max as soon as possible because thats just the way Chipman operates. But like others have said, public sentiment may shift rapidly regarding Chevy if this group of promising prospects continues to fall flat for both the Jets & Moose in future.
Fair enough. I would say that there are only two quite bad contracts over the past 5 years, and it hasn't really affected the Jets ability to sign and keep good players.
He hasn't just improved the prospects from a total wasteland, by many assessments he has taken the Jets prospect pool to the level of top-3 or so in the NHL. He's done that while keeping the main components of a decent core together (rather than tearing the team down to the studs as Buffalo and Toronto did). It's possible that all of the positive assessments of the Jets prospect pool are misguided, in which case the Jets really are no further ahead and headed for oblivion. I think that's unlikely, but we should know more in the next year or two.