The Winnipeg Jets have been awfully quiet in this off-season, almost too quiet.
On Tuesday morning, the team announced that they had re-signed their last restricted free agent, forward Michal Frolik, to a new 1-year deal, worth $3.3 million.
The 26-year old Czech forward and the team were reportedly in negotiations for either a short-term deal to make sure he is in camp or a longer-term deal, in the neighbourhood of five years, to make sure he is in a Jets uniform for the foreseeable future. If the Jets and Frolik don't come to a longer-term agreement in the new year, the former 2006 1st round pick will become an unrestricted free agent.
In 2014, Frolik finished 118th among all forwards in scoring, picking up 15 goals and 42 points in 81 games, proving to be a good depth scoring forward on the team, as they tried to reach the playoffs in their first season in the Western Conference.
Frolik should be a good candidate for a late-round forward in the hockey pool draft, but I wouldn't project him much further than what he had last season, as the team around him hasn't really improved enough on paper for my liking. I will have him down around the 40-point mark for the 2015 season.
The Jets still have four spots open on their projected roster, even after the Frolik signing, and they have $11.6 million in cap space left to fill those spaces. The Jets don't have a great deal in the coffers for immediate impact talent, but they may have to use whatever they do have to fill in some gaps, if they don't start shopping in the unrestricted free agent aisles.
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