Winnipeg Jets: Five Awards Jets can Win in the 2021 Season
3. The Jim Gregory General Manager of the Year Award
Kevin Cheveldayoff
Cheveldayoff and the Jets front office made a splash this offseason. They have brought in some new players and made an interesting trade to bring back one old face to Winnipeg.
The Jets have signed Nate Thompson, Derek Forbort, and re-signed, and extended a handful of players who were either on the Jets or in the organization last season.
The biggest move Cheveldayoff made this offseason was acquiring Paul Stastny back from the Vegas Golden Knights in a trade. Winnipeg sent Carl Dahlstrom and a conditional fourth round pick to Vegas in exchange for the thirty-four-year-old.
We are only a few weeks away from seeing how Paul Maurice takes these players that Cheveldayoff acquired and signed and how he molds those players and returning players into a successful team.
Training camp will be extremely interesting considering the added depth Winnipeg now has and there will definitely be some tough roster decisions to make.
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Only time will tell how the Jets will perform in 2021 and if Winnipeg has a great season, Cheveldayoff can definitely be named “GM of the Year.”