Pair of Jets hoping to stay put

WINNIPEG — To get a lot, you have to give up a lot.

That’s why acquiring a top forward like the Senators’ Mark Stone could very well cost the Winnipeg Jets a first-round draft pick and a blue-chip prospect or a young player already on the roster.

Players like forwards Jack Roslovic and Mason Appleton or defenceman Sami Niku would almost certainly be in the discussion.

“Nobody wants to get moved, especially when you have such a good team here,” Roslovic, 22, said. “Maybe if I was on a nonCup-contending team, then for sure I’d want to go to a Cupcontending team every year.

But when you’re on such a good team, with such good players and such a great opportunity to do something special, you definitely don’t want to get moved.”

Ditto for Appleton, 23, who says young players usually want to stay with the team that drafted and developed them.

“You get set on being here and being a part of this team,” Appleton said. “You want to win a Cup with this team. You want to do everything with this team.”

Both Appleton and Roslovic say they don’t pay much attention to all the tradedeadline talk, and spend no time worrying about it.

Roslovic, bumped up to the second line with Nik Ehlers out, has seven goals, 16 points, in 57 games this season.

Appleton (three goals, 10 points, in 32 games) has been part of a very effective fourth line.