What a difference a year has made.
You will recall that 12 months ago at this time, the biggest question in town was: is this the season the Winnipeg Jets return to the playoffs?
Well, flash forward to today, with the season-opener looming a week from Thursday and the new burning question in town is decidedly loftier: Is this the season the Winnipeg Jets win the Stanley Cup?
And Jets fans aren't the only ones asking. Indeed, the notion that the Jets have a realistic chance to hoist a Stanley Cup at Portage and Main next spring has become so ubiquitous that in a preview of the NHL season this week, one writer at USA Today even went so far as to declare the Jets this year’s “trendy pick” to win it all.