Ed Willes: Jets represent the impossible dream for once-abandoned city

When the Winnipeg Jets 1.0 were circling the drain a couple decades ago, we, the team’s self-appointed caretakers, used to dream about a universe in which our team might survive.
It was largely an exercise in fantasy.
The NHL of the mid-’90s and the economic realities of the Manitoba capital had doomed the franchise, then reinforced the death sentence with the subtlety of a kick to the groin.
Still, it was fun to think about a land of unicorns and double rainbows; a land where the Je