Chipman: Jets' player budget will rise
/True North executive chairman and Jets governor Mark Chipman, via The Winnipeg Free Press, indicates that with the rising salary cap next year, the Jets' player budget is also on the rise.
"It'll go up," Chipman said. "I can't tell you exactly where we'll fall in. It moves up commensurate. We feel really good where we're at with the core of our team. It's not as though our plan is to not be successful in the near term.
"We're trying to win but not to the extent we're prepared to put at risk winning consistently year in and year out. We're trying to build something and if that point seems old, I don't apologize. It may seem old this time next year. We're on a plan and we're sticking to it. In the meantime, it's not like we're not trying to win."
Chipman also states his confidence in GM Kevin Cheveldayoff, expands on the possibility of adding a few hundred seats at MTS Centre, discusses team revenues bouncing back from the lockout and also goes into ticket price averages compared with other Canadian cities.