While the battle for the West between the Winnipeg Jets and the Vegas Golden Knights wages on, there’s a different type of battle brewing in front office boardrooms across the league.



There’s probably a number of owners out there who want to know how a team built with players left on the scrap heap is seven wins away from a Stanley Cup while their team is toiling away on the golf green. A fair question, but for every owner asking it, there’s a general manager right there to show him the team on the other side, built The Right Way, with homegrown talent and patience.



Extreme. Patience.



The Jets have been rebuilding since they were still called the Thrashers and it looked like it finally paid dividends in 2014-15 when the team made the playoffs. Then they got swept in the first round. It was a bitter end, but it looked like a major stepping stone for what seemed to be a team on the rise. It was that year that The Hockey News proclaimed...