Jets are in a pickle with this one.
-They have 59 million on the books for next season
-Assuming a cap increase to 83 million, that leaves 24 million open with these contracts all up: Laine, Connor, Trouba, Myers, Tanev, Copp, Petan, Lemieux, Brossoit, Chiarot, Morrow.
Assuming bottom dollar replacements for the last 7 names at a million a pop, that leaves 17 million for Laine, Connor, Trouba, and Myers.
If Laine gets 9 and they bridge Connor at 6, they're losing 2 top 4 defensemen and replacing them with minimum value players at that position, because that's all the money you have left.
They're gonna have to try to give away somebody like Little for peanuts or eat some of his deal just to free up a couple extra million.