One of those is Pierre-Luc Dubois, who Cheveldayoff describes as "rejuvenated" after a summer of training in Montreal.
Then, there is the way that Dillon and Schmidt have fit into the room seamlessly.
"I think we really added a lot of dimension to our room just from a veteran player that can play like that, but also what he brings to the organization," said Cheveldayoff of Dillon. "Then you have a guy like Schmidty who, again, just the personality just oozes from that standpoint. You see the smile on the ice when he's skating around, flying around out there."
Even still, there are still some battles for roster spots that Cheveldayoff is interested to watch unfold.
The departure of veterans like Nate Thompson, Trevor Lewis, Mason Appleton, and Mathieu Perreault from last season's squad creates openings in the 'bottom six.'
"You've got guys like (Kristian Vesalainen) who are learning a new position here and trying to see how that plays out," said Cheveldayoff. "It's essentially the first training camp for a guy like Cole Perfetti to see where it's at for him."
Locked in that battle for a spot is forward Evegeny Svechnikov. While his name may be new at Jets camp, it's one that has been bouncing around the team's amateur scouting staff since prior to the 2015 NHL Draft.
"He was a player that back in his draft year, we had a lot of interest in. We actually flew him in here to Winnipeg," said Cheveldayoff. "He had an ankle surgery back then. We wanted to make sure our doctors saw him and saw what the ankle injury was like."
Svechnikov was selected 19th overall by the Detroit Red Wings that year (the same year the Jets took Kyle Connor two picks earlier).
Since then, Svechnikov has 101 points in 186 American Hockey League games, and helped the Grand Rapids Griffins to a Calder Cup title in 2016-17.
The 24-year-old played a career-high 21 games at the NHL level with Detroit in 2020-21 scoring three times and finishing with eight points.
In the offseason, Svechnikov came available, and the Jets organization pounced. He signed a one-year contract with the Manitoba Moose and is in Jets camp on a tryout basis.
"He's a guy that can play the right side," said Cheveldayoff. "We know from our amateur side that we had a lot of interest in him. We're excited to see what he can do in the exhibition games as well."
Cheveldayoff had hoped that Dylan Samberg - also in his first Jets training camp - would see some preseason action, but that won't be the case.
The defenceman, who won back-to-back NCAA titles with University of Minnesota-Duluth before recording seven points in 32 AHL games in 2020-21, suffered a high ankle sprain near the end of Thursday's skate and will miss the next six-to-eight weeks.
"The thing that's most disappointing for me with Dylan Samberg is this was his first training camp," Cheveldayoff said. "He hasn't had a chance to play an exhibition game yet, and unfortunately he gets hurt the first day. Those are things where you have to roll with the punches."
Winnipeg's preseason schedule gets underway on Sunday at Canada Life Centre against the Ottawa Senators.
It will also be step one in a long season, one where Cheveldayoff hopes to see his team get better every single day.
"The guys out there on the ice, obviously that's where the games are won and lost. It's not won on paper, it's not won on the trades or the signings or anything like that," he said. "It's the guys coming together. It's being better in June and July than you were in September, October. It's taking those steps. And whatever happens along the way, learning from those experiences."
