Watching the Winnipeg Jets in the latest instalment of their rebuild-retool-relapse Thursday night from Motown left yours truly wondering just one thing:
Any chance somebody could hammer down on the fast-forward button to the NHL Draft Lottery?
Winnipeg’s Blake Wheeler is tripped up by Detroit blue-liner Niklas Kronwall during third-period action Thursday night.
Look, as much as there were some juicy Jets moments in Thursday’s 3-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings — Marko Dano’s first with his new club and Tyler Myers highlight-of-the-night-candidate goal among them — the next game that matters for this franchise will be the one determining where it will select in the first round of this June’s draft, and whether they have a shot at Auston Matthews, Patrik Laine or Jesse Puljujarvi.