Listening to the managing director Kevin Cheveldayoff last week, he would seem Winnipeg jets are always very interested in the re-signature of the star striker Nikolaj Ehlers.
With essentially a month before Dane, 29, arrives the free market as a free agent without restriction, you could say that the negotiations – if they really occur – have passed DEFCON 5 and quickly approach the eleventh hour.
During its availability at the end of the season a week ago on Wednesday, the GM of the Jets said that the team would put its best foot forward with Ehlers to try to plead so that it is a unique jet for life.
In time between there and now, we would assume that the opening has been extended and the will of the jets to consume a new contract understood by the Ehlers camp.
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From this siege, however, it may no longer be the decision of the jets and the only major stumbling in the continuous future of Ehlers in Winnipeg is, in fact, Ehlers itself.
After 10 seasons, nearly 700 games, 225 goals and more than 500 points with the organization, if Ehlers wanted to stay with the jets, an extension would have been signed a long time ago.
But frankly, he was not committed, refusing to discuss the subject when he was pressed earlier in the season, by completely avoiding him over the campaign, then moving away simply by riding a plane for the world championship in the hours that followed the Jets season against Dallas.
The assembly, the silence is undoubtedly deafening.
As Cheveldayoff also said it last week, players like Ehlers won the right to become free agents and this opportunity is respected, but no doubt, the more this situation has evolved at that time, the more it happened.
Of course, the jets are interested in re -Signal the Ehlers – they said it last week. The problem is that, by reading the tea leaves, it has become painfully clear for many that Ehlers have no interest in re-signal with the jets.
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