861 players have appeared in a NHL game this season & 260 have some form of NTC or NMC, so to begin with just 30% even have these in their contracts. A player must be over 27 AND have 7 years of NHL experience to negotiate such a deal into their contract.
Of those 260, 110 have either a full NMC's or a full NTC. This amounts to 12.7% of all contracts. They're not only unavailable to the Jets, unless they waive, 30 other teams can't trade for them either.
Of the remaining 150, the NTC most commonly fluctuate between 3-16 teams. There are only 4 NHL players whose NTC involves more than 18 teams. As a rule this exists so players on contending teams don't find themselves traded to teams outside the playoff line, hence why 16 is such a common number.
Now clearly that isn't always the case. It was recently reported in the Athletic that in an 82 player sample, Winnipeg appeared on 48% of these players lists. (150x0.48=72)
This math suggest 72 players in the NHL have the Jets on their list, which amount to 8% of all the players playing the NHL this season.
You could argue further that a good portion of these 72 are on albatross contracts or are playing significantly below the contracted value & not worth trading for in the first place.
I've posted something similar for several seasons now around this time of year.
In a nutshell are the Jets operating at a disadvantage? Sure...but it's a marginal disadvantage at best.
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