Photo Credit: Bruce Fedyck/USA TODAY Sports Brendan Lemieux, the son of Claude, turned heads with bone-crunching hits at the Penticton Young Stars tournament in 2015. He continued to impress with his truculent style at Winnipeg Jets main camp and into the preseason, nearly breaking camp with Winnipeg in his final season of junior eligibility. This year an older, more-mature…
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Photo Credit: Brad Rempel/USA TODAY Sports Could the Winnipeg Jets find themselves over a barrel when the market opens at weeks end? If the Jets weren’t feeling the pressure before, they probably should be now, especially in light of CSNNE’s Joe Haggerty’s report that the Boston Bruins are considering tendering a lucrative offer sheet to defenseman Jacob Trouba. Let’s…
Embed from Getty Images For months now, even before the NHL draft lottery, the apex of the 2016 NHL Entry Draft order has seemed immutable. Most everyone expects Auston Matthews to go first, then Patrik Laine, then Jesse Puljujarvi. Hold on though. While Laine remains the consensus pick to go second overall, all it takes to throw a wrench…
Photo Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea/USA TODAY Sports Winnipeg Jets captain Andrew Ladd has been traded to the Chicago Blackhawks along with depth forward Matt Fraser and depth defender Jay Harrison for a bounty of significant future assets including a 2016 first-round pick and Marko Dano, according to a report from TSN’s Darren Dreger. Update:The conditional pick coming back…
Jacob Trouba is really good and the Winnipeg Jets shouldn’t consider trading him, even if the return is a No. 1 defenseman on a team-friendly contract who hails from Manitoba originally and would love nothing more than to come home. Thankfully for Jets fans, all signs point to the club being completely unwilling to part ways with the 22-year-old…
Photo Credit: Billy Hurst/USA TODAY Sports The status of key pending unrestricted free agents stars Dustin Byfuglien and Andrew Ladd is the biggest Winnipeg Jets story going this season. There are a variety of other interesting Jets subplots – from how Connor Hellebuyck and Nikolaj Ehlers fare in their first taste of NHL action, to…
Photo Credit: Brad Rempel/USA TODAY Sports Though Winnipeg Jets defenseman Jacob Trouba has struggled offensively to start the 2015-16 campaign, his physical game has always been on point. The young Jets defenseman often throws his weight around with reckless abandon, and packs a larger wallop than one would expect considering his stature. On Friday afternoon,…
Photo Credit: Bruce Fedyck/USA TODAY Sports The Winnipeg Jets are a small market team. Winnipeg may be ‘small’ relative to the size of some of the other metropolitan areas which act as host cities for the NHL 29 other member clubs, but it’s a loyal and ravenous hockey market, which allows the Jets to punch above their…
Photo Credit: Bruce Fedyck/USA TODAY Sports The Winnipeg Jets have recalled goaltender Connor Hellebuyck from the Manitoba Moose, the organization announced on Sunday. It’s not a surprising roster maneuver, as usual Jets starter Ondrej Pavelec sustained an apparent injury when he was violently run by Arizona Coyotes forward Shane Doan on Saturday night. Pavelec reportedly…
Photo Credit: Jerome Miron/USA TODAY Sports Winnipeg Jets goaltender Ondrej Pavelec may be out for a while. The Jets’ usual starter was violently run by former Jets version 1.0 forward, and current Arizona Coyotes captain, Shane Doan during the second period of Saturday night’s 3-2 Jets victory. According to CTV’s Shawn Churchill, Pavelec left the rink on…
Photo Credit: Ed Mulholland/USA TODAY Sports New York Islanders defenseman Travis Hamonic wants to come home. The 25-year-old first-pairing defender hails from just outside Winnipeg and has requested a trade out of New York, ideally to a franchise in Western Canada, for the purpose of being closer to what is reportedly an ongoing family situation. Hamonic is…
