The Winnipeg Jets and forward Kyle Connor have agreed to an eight-year, $96 million contract extension carrying an AAV of $12 million.

This is the richest contract in Winnipeg Jets franchise history, whether it was version 1 or version 2 that came from Atlanta.

To put this into context, as Frank Seravalli of Victory Plus TV and B/R Ice said, Connor is making $14 million less than what the entire Jets franchise was purchased in Atlanta for $110 million.

Kyle Connor is also the first Winnipeg Jets player, according to Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet, to receive multiple seasons of signing bonus money along with a full no-movement clause. As he put it, these are steps the organization has never taken before.

Even with the Mark Scheifele and Connor Hellebuyck signing the same extensions a c

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