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Jets pack up early amid whispers of fractured locker-room

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Cracks in the ice

THE CANADIAN PRESS/JOHN WOODS

There was no smoking gun. That's just not the Winnipeg Jets way — to air any potential dirty laundry in public. They'll keep things bottled up as tightly as possible, trying to create the illusion of a united front.

But as players and coaches gathered for an autopsy on their 2018-19 NHL season Monday, there were enough clues dropped about how the body ended up in the morgue. And they all point to something suspected for quite some time about this club, one with such lofty expectations that came up painfully short: there were a multitude of issues, both on the ice and off.