As someone who watches a lot of Winnipeg (they're my 2nd-favorite team), I can say it's as simple as the Jets like to separate Connor and Ehlers, and Connor is appreciably better than Ehlers.
I loved Connor during his draft year and he's a stud for sure.
Timo had 0 points in a 7 game series and was terrific. We’re mostly judging these things by looking at a box score.
The whole Timo point is just to illustrate that you can have a reasonably large stretch of games with 0 to show for it while still playing pretty well. Ehlers has had some strange usage in his career and hasn’t been on PP1 most of the time. Not too surprising his counting stats aren’t great across a number of series that they were mostly smoked in. But even if he’s not great in the playoffs, he’s terrific in the regular season. That’s not nothing.
Would be the antithesis of what we need and as described by Fitz in his exit interview
I think it would be an issue of deployment to add a guy like that. He's a very skilled player. He'd add to the team speed. You could play him with Hischier and Meier and he'd be fine. Then Bratt and Jack would play together and you'd need a bigger stronger winger to do the dirty work and puck retrieval. It's not ideal but on balance it would help more than it would hurt in my view.
We shouldn't risk that contract. With already having Palat for 3 more years and potentially Dougie not being the same player and having 4 years left on his deal, we need to be efficient for future signings.
We've been complaining about it for years now and there is some credence to that I think.
