Winnipeg Jets Training Camp Day 4 In my previous article “Who Will Drop the Gloves For the Winnipeg Jets” I looked at last seasons’ and career fighting numbers for Jets players to see who we can expect to be dropping the gloves for the team this season. With 33 fights in 184 games, Tanner Glass [...]
Moving to a new city is never easy. Finding a place to live, good restaurants, a new barber and a place to send your kids to school are just some of the items on the to do list. On the day the NHL Social Media Policy was announced, I felt that it was appropriate to [...]
With the release of the Winnipeg Jets jerseys last week, the checklist of items that True North Sports and Entertainment have been working on since May 31, 2011 is slowly beginning to come to an end. Sure paint needs to still be applied in areas of the MTS Centre, and sure everyone is champing at [...]
I think I speak for all the Illegal Curve staff when I say it was certainly a thrill to see the Jets (even the rookies) back on the ice last night. Despite the fact that they were wearing practice sweaters with those awful high numbers, it was a treat to watch. The game itself wasn’t [...]
I am of the belief if you don’t shoot, you can’t score. Clearly that mantra is also shared by Jets defenceman Dustin Byfuglien, who had a team leading shot total of 347. What is especially interesting was that it was so much higher than Evander Kane’s 234 (a difference of 113). I found it unusual [...]
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, [...]
Recently The Hockey News did a Top 10 games to watch this season, which included two Jets games (Home Opener vs. Montreal and the December 1st game against the Coyotes) but THN based the order on the dates they appeared on the NHL calendar. With that theme of Top 10 in mind, Illegal Curve decided [...]
Regardless of your opinions on fighting in hockey, it remains a part of the game. No other sport allows players to stop the game, drop the gloves and fight. If something of that nature happened in any other major sport, fines and suspensions would be handed out. Two men going toe to toe, will always [...]