Let’s take some liberties with the Winnipeg Jets and well, with the NHL as a whole. I am not an NHL caliber player. I am not an NHL caliber anything.
In all reality, I can barely skate. I can’t skate backwards at all. I played a little hockey as a youth, but if we had a team in high school, I would’ve been hard-pressed to make it.
But in this exercise, Paul Maurice has been instructed that I be placed in the lineup. I need to play every game, and I can’t be stashed away and play a few shifts a game.