What this team is doing makes no sense to me whatsoever. They had 2 real options this summer
1. Commit to a youth movement and year of development: that involves sticking with your talented rookies through thick and thin. Letting them play and taking your lumps that come with their learning curve.
2. Being a real playoff contender this year: that involved signing some veterans that are actually talented and maybe adding 1 rookie but having the depth to shelter him and remain competitive.
Instead what the Jets have chosen to do is to fill 3 forward spots with rookies, shelter 1, continuously take 1 in and out of the line up for a guy who has 11 career points in 115 career games, and yo-yo 1 rookies minutes down to 4-5 with no special teams minutes, when the aforementioned rookie comes out for the aforementioned lunkhead.
So your not letting 2 of these guys really develop but you don't have any NHL level talent to replace them to be a playoff contender. What are you trying to accomplish?
Sure taking their time in deciding which way to go - committing to a young core, or relying on the old core with young players sprinkled in.
Problem with going too much with a young core, they likely feel there isn't enough veteran leadership to guide the young players until they are top contributors. Too much of old core, your core is aging and likely declining in ability and they are more expensive.
It's like they fear, the moment we sign out older players, the young players will exceed their contributions. But if we don't sign our older core, our young players won't develop properly.