Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022/23 revision of our top 50 Winnipeg Jets.
As for all of our top 50 players in hockey we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Hockey League.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.
Last year, Winnipeg snuck into the playoffs, but this is such a strange list to do. The Jets technically do not own the history of the original team (although they honor that period), so we have to do his list based on this rendition which began as the Atlanta Thrashers. There was one new entry and several fluctuations.
As always, we present our top five, which saw one change:
You can find the entire list here.
Hellebucyk, a former Vezina Trophy winner, took over #2, and should overtake Wheeler with a good year for the top spot on the next list. Scheifele, who is still active, did not do enough to move up over Byfuglien.
Left Wing, Kyle Connor, climbed to #6 from #9.
Defenseman, Josh Morrissey, had a breakout year, and reached #9 from #16.
Danish Left Wing, Nikolaj Ehlers, moved up two spots to #10.
Defenseman, Neil Pionk, had a nice jump, advancing to #18 from #29.
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Left Wing, Adam Lowry, went to #25 from #37.
Forward, Pierre-Luc Dubois, who is now with the Los Angeles Kings, rocketed from #49 to #31.
The lone new entry was Defenseman, Dylan DeMelo, who enters the list at #36.
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Pierre-Luc Dubois began his career with the Columbus Blue Jackets, where he played three-years-and-change before he requested a trade out of Ohio. He got it, with Winnipeg as his landing place in January of 2021, though that was not necessarily where he wanted to go.
In Dubois's first full year with the Jets, he had his best season since his sophomore campaign with a 28/30/60 line. He followed that with 63 Points, breaking his previous best, but it was well known that he had no intention of staying in Manitoba when hs contract expired so in the 2023 offseason, he was traded to Los Angeles. Dubois had a solid run with 143 Points in 195 Games for Winnipeg.