When body checking is introduced into minor hockey, the first rule taught is not to hit from behind. This season, the NHL is taking a hard line approach in passing the message along to its players. Two nights ago in an exhibition game, Jody Shelley of the Philadelphia Flyers drilled Toronto Maple Leafs forward Darryl [...]
This weekend the Winnipeg Jets will be playing 3 exhibition games in three days. Saturday night in Nashville, Sunday afternoon in Charlotte and Monday afternoon for the Kraft Hockeyville game in St. John’s, NL vs. Ottawa. With such a tight schedule, the Jets will be sending two teams on the road trip. One team is [...]
It appears that today’s post about when and how you would receive your tickets just barely preceded the actual delivery of the tickets. I returned home 5 minutes ago, checked the mail and it appears that part 1 of the two part delivery has taken place as I received my first batch of Jets Season [...]
At the end of August, having fielded many inquires about when season ticket holders could expect to receive their tickets, I contacted True North to find out and was given the following information regarding the method of delivery of Jets season tickets. (An IC reader in Toronto shared his season tickets for the Leafs/Jets games, [...]
Breaking Down the TSN Jets Television Deal – What will it mean for customers? Last week TSN and the Winnipeg Jets announced a 10 year agreement to have TSN broadcast Jets games on a regional channel only available in Winnipeg, Saskatchewan, Northeastern Ontario, NWT, and Nunavut. Currently, the channel is only confirmed to be available [...]
On August 21, 2011 Gary Lawless and Ed Tait wrote an article in the Winnipeg Free Press reporting that Winnipeg would be the home for the NHL’s kickoff party, called “NHL Face-Off”. The celebration would be the weekend of October 6, ending on the 9 with the Jets first regular season home game. One would think, [...]
The biographical information was provided to the media by TSN and True North Sports & Entertainment Dennis Beyak Play-By-Play Announcer, Hockey on TSN Manitoba-native Dennis Beyak will join TSN as the play-by-play announcer for Winnipeg Jets regional games on the new television channel TSN Jets and on Sports Radio 1290 in Winnipeg. Born and raised [...]
This afternoon True North Sports & Entertainment, announced their 10-year agreement with Bell Media to broadcast Winnipeg Jets on the new “TSN Jets” TV channel and Sports Radio 1290 for radio. Specific details of the agree had been leaked for some time, making the press conference was a formality. Here are the major points of [...]