The Winnipeg Jets are not a rebuilding team. If they were a bad team with a bad farm system, it would be a genuine problem. Fortunately for them, then just about won the whole damn thing last year.
Most of their talent is not in the farm system, not because they did a bad job at drafting and developing, but because they’ve graduated much of it to the NHL level.
Corey Pronman, who does a killer job over at the Athletic, has been doing a deep dive on all the NHL farm systems. He ranked the Jets 28th, which came as a surprise to me (while it came as a surprise, trust Corey over me), but nevertheless is the impetus for this article.