from Paul Wiecek of the Winnipeg Free Press,

Well, if you accept that there is no good reason why the Jets wouldn’t have made Trouba the same kind of lavish, multi-year offer they’ve made to so many other top players in recent years, there are only two possibilities: the offer still isn’t lavish enough; or, more likely in my view, the problem this time around is the same as the problem last time around — Trouba doesn’t want to be here.

If that’s the case, the clock is ticking for the Jets. Because two years from now, Trouba will become an unrestricted free agent. And if you think he’d stick around when he didn’t have to, after everything that’s gone on the last two years, you’re delusional.

Trouba is a solution for the Jets on the ice. That’s not up for debate.

But he’s a problem off it — one that only got bigger Friday.

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