Nikolaj Ehlers speaks out after ending his time with the Winnipeg Jets. This offseason in the National Hockey League has seen long time members of one franchise or another leave in free agency and while some of those departures have been very acrimonious, that definitely has not been the case for all of them.

This story originally appeared on hockeysverige.se and has been translated from Swedish to English. After 10 seasons in Canada with the Winnipeg Jets, Nikolaj Ehlers is off to take on a new challenge.

There was nothing the Winnipeg Jets could say or do to ensure Nikolaj Ehlers remained in Navy blue for life. “(My leaving Winnipeg) was inevitable,” Ehlers said on a Saturday morning Zoom call. “I told (Jets management),