NHL contract grades: Jets lock up Connor Hellebuyck and Mark Scheifele long-term, but to what end?

The Jets signed Scheifele and Hellebuyck to seven-year contract extensions, each carrying an average annual value of $8.5 million.

The contracts The signed forward and goaltender to seven-year contract extensions, each carrying an average annual value of $8.5 million. Gentille: The Jets’ preferred natural state is inertia, for good or ill, so long-term extensions for two of the franchise’s hallmark players always seemed like an ideal outcome on the team side. That didn’t make them inevitable, though. Hellebuyck and Scheifele had a say in the matter. Both are 30 now, at crucial personal and professional junctures.

There’s just not much of a reason to believe that’ll happen, especially if they continue on their steady diet of 20th-overall picks, and he’s shown for years that nothing special will happen if he’s a team’s best forward. “Special,” though, might not be the goal. Jets grade: B Hellebuyck grade: B+ Scheifele grade: A Goldman: The Jets’ success in the short term is obviously very reliant on Hellebuyck, so his contract situation probably felt a bit more pressing.

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