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Five down, two to go?

The plan, boss, the plan…

Winnipeg Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff reset his National Hockey League club last summer and it’s produced dismal results.

Is he playing rope-a-dope, as Muhammad Ali once did when he let his opponent tire out throwing a bunch of punches and then won the fight?

After the conclusion of the 2015-16 season, Cheveldayoff will have two years left on his contract (somehow getting a two-year extension added to his original five-year deal in 2013 after only two seasons of drafting, plucking players from the waiver wire and re-signing some others).

Let’s have a look at the job he’s done lately:

He did well last month in signing veteran defenceman Dustin Byfuglien to a five-year contract at US$7.