We're more than a week into the official NHL offseason after the start of free agency on July 1, and most of the action is over and done with. Almost all the big names have signed new deals, and if there were any trades to be had, they've been done by now. That means it's time to start looking ahead to the 2024-2025 NHL season and plotting out how we think some teams will fare.
A lot of club have made sizable improvements and others...
haven't. There are still others who may have a move or two they'd like to get done before training camp begins in mid-September, but we're judging everyone based on what they've done up to this point. Unfortunately for a few teams, everything they've done (or not done) will lead them to having a season that won't live up to what they just accomplished this past year.
We've picked out seven teams that have had offseason results that are a bit dubious. The Winnipeg Jets were thought to be one of the teams who would be really busy this summer, perhaps not in free agency but certainly on the trade market. Unfortunately for Jets fans, they've been neither.
They've made one trade in which they brought in defenseman Dylan Coghlan from Carolina and their top free-agent signings to this point are re-signing Colin Miller, Eric Comrie (from Buffalo), Jaret Anderson-Dolan (Nashville), Kaapo Kähkönen (New Jersey) and Haydn Fleury (Tampa Bay). While they will help make them a deeper team, they're not the kinds of players who will put them over the top in .