Breaking news: Coach Maurice announces that Byfuglien to miss 2-4 weeks

Jets Head Coach Paul Maurice just advised the media in his scrum that #33 will be missing 2-4 weeks.  Dustin Byfuglien had left the game against the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday in the 2nd period and did not return for the 3rd.  He has played in all 65 games for the Jets this season amassing 15 goals and 27 assists for 42 points in a hybrid forward/defence role.

The team was off yesterday so no information was available on the status of the Jets big man.  Byfuglien will join his former defence partner Ben Chiarot up in the press box.

Right now the Jets have the following defence pairings available:

Enstrom-Myers
Stuart-Trouba
Harrison-Pardy

Paul Postma has been the extra defenceman for the most part and hasn’t played a game since January 8th, 2015.

The Jets can ill afford to be without Byfuglien for a substantial period of time and it will be interesting to see how the team responds to his absence.

David Minuk

Working hard on a daily basis to provide the latest Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose news for our readers and listeners. I also appear on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show every Saturday on our YouTube channel as well as the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show after every single Jets game. And I occasionally jump in the play-by-play booth at Canada Life to provide colour analysis during Manitoba Moose games.

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