At what point should you put down your frosty beverage, get off the pool noodle and start reaching for the panic button?
I hate to be the proverbial dark cloud, but we're well into the dog days of summer, with the August long weekend in the rear-view mirror, and two of the Winnipeg Jets' biggest offensive weapons are still without contracts.
Patrik Laine and Kyle Connor combined to score 64 regular-season goals last year, which amounts to just under 24 per cent of the 272 times the team lit the lamp. And they did it on the cheap, in the final year of entry-level deals that carried cap hits of just $925,000 each, not including performance bonuses.