Hi, today I am going to blog about how to fix the Winnipeg Jets and get them to win the Stanley Cup.

First of all, they NEED a new coach, Paul Maurice isn’t a bad coach but he is missing a key part of coaching. He never gives the players motivation. Sure, the players like it more if he always has their back, but the greatest coach ever, Scotty Bowman, had no feelings towards his players and he taught them that if you want to play in the NHL you have to play both sides of the ice and be really good at it too. Maurice is a great coach for developing players because he knows when to put them in the lineup and he isn’t too hard on them, but that is what the Jets were, not what they are. He needs to call his players out and teach them to play hard or else. So the best thing for the Jets is to fire Paul Maurice to a coach who can motivate his players. Someone like John Tortorella. I know that sounds like a bad idea but Torts knows how to push the right buttons  to motivate his players. The 2004 Stanley Cup that the Lightning won was  definitely part of Torts because he pushed his players to play at their top level.

Another thing they have to do is add a right handed defenseman. They have a really good lineup of lefties and young players  who play left defense, like Morrisey, Stanley, Heinola, Benn, Forbort, and Bealieu. However, on the right side they are much less deep. The only player who should play in the NHL is Pionk. This year, if they let go of Jordie Benn and Matthieu Perrault that would open up 6.125 Million and they could also resign Paul Stastny this year to a lower contract, around 3 million, and that would open up another 3.5 million, which would give them 9.625 million to sign a good right hander this free agency like Dougie Hamilton or Tyson Barrie. They could probably even sign one of them to a 5 million contract and then they could keep Perrault and just lower Stastny’s contract, but I think that that would give them a lower chance of getting one of them.

That would probably help them enough to make a deep run if not win the cup next year, but another thing they could do to try to get their team better would be to switch their lines for better chemistry on offence. They have good chemistry normally but sometimes they split up the lines and ruin the chemistry.  This is how I think their forward lines should look like.

LW               C                  RW

Connor      Schiefele     Wheeler

Ehlers        Dubois          Lewis

Perrault          Stastny         Copp

Vesalainen      Lowry           Toninato

Thank you for reading. Here is a link to Jaydens blog  and here is a link to Ernests blog and here is a link to the NHL website.