Tyler Yaremchuk was joined by Frank Seravalli on the eve of the NHL Entry Draft to discuss the trade market for Connor Hellebuyck on the latest episode ofThe Winnipeg Jets are a team that everyone in the hockey world is watching very closely. They have all those guys in the top five of your trade targets board. Mark Scheifele is one, Connor Hellebuyck is another. I’m surprised we haven’t heard more about this.
The thing for me is, who can afford to pay him $9 million for the next eight seasons or whatever the number ends up being on their cap. I think the list is very small and I also think that because Connor Hellebuyck by virtue of the situation that the Jets are in with Pierre-Luc Dubois and Mark Scheifele. They control the trade destination because they’ll only go somewhere where they’ll sign a contract.
I think the pool is already very small for the Jets but then for the Jets to extract significant value from that is going to be very difficult for Kevin Cheveldayoff to pull off.