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NHL Power Rankings #18: Winnipeg Jets
The Jets, like Ottawa, were a team that made a nice playoff run last season. However, the “true north” will have a hard time returning to the NHL playoffs as they didn’t improve this off-season like I thought they would.
They’re apparently content with having Ondrej Pavelec, who has been sub-par except for last season’s most likely outlier, and Michael Hutchinson (who is unproven) as their goaltending tandem. They lost a very good forward in Michael Frolik. They still haven’t re-signed Andrew Ladd or Dustin Byfuglien. Combine that with an improved Central Division, and the Jets might a team that is left out of the playoff picture in 2015. They’ll need guys like Mathieu Perreault and Tyler Myers to improve from last season if they want to make a return to the playoffs.
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