Jim Toth

But to me, what's changed around his situation from afar is the fact that Vancouver's in the situation they are.

So, A, does he want to be there for the remainder of this contract?

Um, and does he want a fresh start, but also be like, does he want to go through a rebuild process and be a part of that?

So I just thought of the idea of look, if, if the jets need a second line center and in two to three years, probably that center would be a first line center.

The Robert Thomas's of the world come up names like that, but that's a division rival.

And I don't know if they have the cachet and the sort of assets to go get a player like Robert Thomas and then also convince him.

So Elias Pettersson comes to mind.

Like, this is a guy that I would think if he looked at the top six here and wanted a fresh start and wanted to not be on a rebuilding team, but on a team that has, you know, five really good core pieces.

I need some secondary ones that he could come in here and potentially, if this is the lineup they're going to go with, play with a Cole Perfetti or be on this power play and sort of, you know, in two to three years when Mark Shifley is 34, 35, be the number one center here in Winnipeg with a Kyle Connor and a Gabriel Velarde.

I don't know if he thinks that way.

I don't know anything about Elias Patterson, but those are the kinds of risks that I think that if they wanted to swallow the 11 million plus and

They could get them relatively cheap and fix their second line center part.

Now, with every player I discuss here, it all doesn't matter.

Do they want to come?

And that's the problem, right?

I know it's Winnipeg.

I know a lot of players would rather play anywhere else.

I know where they are in the no trademark, no trade list when it comes to the city.

But I also think that there are players like Pedersen that if you wanted a fresh start and that ticket is not going to be swallowed by Vancouver for any amount and he wants to go to a contender, Winnipeg would be at the forefront because there aren't a lot of Dallas's, Colorado's that want to eat that salary.

But yet the teams that could eat it are nowhere near the playoffs and are in no better situation than Vancouver.