Paul Stastny did not come cheaply for the Winnipeg Jets, but players worth having on the roster rarely do. After just two games, it’s evident Stastny is worth having. The Jets already frightening offensive arsenal got yet another weapon at the trade deadline. Stastny cost them a first-round pick, promising prospect Erik Foley, and a […]

Tucker Poolman was always going to get another chance with the Winnipeg Jets this year. The Jets were just hoping it wouldn’t come at the expense of their top right-shooting defenseman. The news came down early in the morning on Jan. 29, broken again by Ken Wiebe of the Winnipeg Sun, that Trouba was hurt. […]

The Winnipeg Jets are well on their way to the playoffs. In the stretch run and ahead of the trade deadline they may be buyers for the first time in years. With the Jets as deep as they’ve ever been at all positions, the question is what could they add? The consensus among most observers […]

It’s a mark of how good the 2015 NHL Entry Draft was for the Winnipeg Jets that Erik Foley isn’t talked about more. After all, the third rounder would be a top-tier prospect on most teams. A quick run-through of 2015 reveals just how jaw-droppingly good it was for the Jets. Kyle Connor fell into […]

Mark Scheifele going down with an injury could’ve been a tremendous blow to the Winnipeg Jets’ season. Instead, it hardly seems to have slowed them down. There aren’t many teams that could so easily absorb the loss of their number one center. Yet after six sessions sans Scheifele, the Jets are 5-0-1. At the time […]

It hasn’t been pretty, it hasn’t been easy, it hasn’t been devoid of controversy, and it certainly hasn’t been perfect, but 10 games in, the Winnipeg Jets’ season has been their best yet to this point. Ten games into the young season, the Jets hold a solid-but-unspectacular 5-3-2 record. Their 12 points situate them second […]

The Winnipeg Jets spent a lot of money in the offseason trying to solidify their goaltending, only for Connor Hellebuyck to do it on his own. Hellebuyck had poor numbers last season by any standard and the oft-repeated line of “even average goaltending would’ve had the Jets in the playoffs” rang true again. This year, he’s […]

After seven games, four wins, three losses, moments of jubilation, anxiety, and pure frustration, the Winnipeg Jets have a layoff to reflect on the start to their season. They have a lot to think about. There’s the reassuring trend of the top-six forwards getting the job done offensively. There’s the unsettling trend of the bottom-six […]

There are things to be positive about with the Winnipeg Jets after a 3-2-0 start. The play of their bottom-six forwards isn’t one of them. For starters, many Jets observers would like to see the Jets get away from a top-six and into a top-nine mentality (i.e. rolling three scoring lines). It’s been a goal […]

Locking up a player of Nikolaj Ehlers’ caliber for seven years would be a victory in and of itself. Locking him up for just $6 million annually is downright theft. Ehlers has gone on a steady upward trajectory since joining the NHL in 2015-16. He started off hot, slowed down mid-season as rookies often do, […]

The Winnipeg Jets definitely got some things right when they drew up their final roster after the exhibition schedule. They also missed the mark on a few players as well. As of this writing, there are still 24 skaters on the Jets roster but two, Matt Hendricks and Andrew Copp, are on injured reserve, meaning […]

Tucker Poolman came into Winnipeg Jets camp having undergone extensive shoulder surgery just months earlier, but you’d never know it watching him play. The 24-year-old defenseman from East Grand Forks has blazed an unusual trail to the pros. He was a walk-on with the NAHL in his 18-year-old season, then moved to the USHL where he […]

Patrik Laine seemed to use his preseason outing against the Calgary Flames to show off. A five-point outing against the conference rival Flames was the second impressive showing from Laine in the exhibition games, following a wicked goal against Minnesota. He scored two goals and three assists, with both goals on the power play. Jets fans […]

The always-debated roster trimming season is upon the NHL and the Jets took part in the action on Sunday, September 24 as well. Winnipeg reduced its roster down to 28 skaters and three goaltenders ahead of their game against the Calgary Flames on Monday night. The roster of remaining players is as follows. The #NHLJets […]

Bryan Little could have earned a lucrative contract anywhere in the NHL upon conclusion of his deal with the Jets. He could have signed a massive contract to carry him right through to retirement. Instead, Little committed to the only franchise he’s ever known ahead of training camp on September 14, inking a six-year deal […]

The Winnipeg Jets’ roster looks awfully different from the one that touched down in the prairies in October 2011. The forward core has been dramatically shaken up to the point where it would be almost unrecognizable to the Jets fans of that inaugural year. The defense is similarly altered, and none of the original goalies remain either. […]

The end of the 2014-15 season seemed to mark a turning point for the Colorado Avalanche. The team was coming off a disappointing regression in 2015, and as we saw in the third part of the Odyssey of Idiocy, there were plenty of reasons for this, bad drafting being chief among them. The 2015 draft […]

The Colorado Avalanche’s recent history is one of poor decision making and missed opportunities. As we saw in Part 1 of the Odyssey of Idiocy, the mistakes started early in Colorado’s first rebuild. And as Part 2 showed us, those mistakes led to the second. The 2013 lockout shortened season kicked off with Avs fans […]