Winnipeg Jets general manager quiet about possible changes to roster during exit interview

General manager Kevin Cheveldayoff answered questions from reporters for 42 minutes on Sunday but didn't reveal his plans to help the under-achieving Winnipeg Jets.

"It's one of those things where I have to process my own emotions as well and make sure if I am making the decisions, I'm making them rationally and not from a knee-jerk type of situation," Cheveldayoff said.

"The business side takes care of itself, but from a perspective of concrete plans and stuff like that, it's really not the time for me to get into."

Cheveldayoff has been the franchise's general manager since its relocation to Winnipeg from Atlanta in 2011 but the Jets have only won three playoff series in that 12-season span. The deepest the club has gone was losing the Western Conference final in 2018 in five games to the Vegas Golden Knights.

The latest shortfall was a first-round exit in five games against Vegas on Thursday.

Cheveldayoff has to still meet with a few players, the coaches and then ownership to map out his priorities, but he viewed the season as partially successful.

"Standing here at training camp, everyone asked if we were going to be a playoff team," said Cheveldayoff, who signed a three-year contract extension through the 2024-25 season last May.

"I firmly believed that we had what it took to be a playoff team and I'm proud of the group that they battled through that gauntlet and got to the point of making the playoffs."

The Jets sat in first place in the conference in mid-January, but sputtered after the all-star break. They finished the regular season 46-33-3 and only grabbed the conference's second wild-card spot in Game 81.

Forward Nikolaj Ehlers was hurt in the playoff-clinching game and missed the first four games of the