It’s not ideal to keep trading your first round picks for rentals, but the Winnipeg Jets know they need to really go for it while their window is still wide open.
And Kevin Hayes is a really great fit for this team, who needed a second line center that could really push possession. Hayes is just that. And while he didn’t score in his debut, a big reason the Jets wanted someone like that was to help Patrik Laine.
Laine, if you’ll recall, has been ice cold. Painfully so. He went fourteen games without a goal and scored one in a stretch of 21 games.