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Final day of Winnipeg Jets 2020-21 Training Camp

Photo Credit: John Delaney (Winnipeg Jets)

The Jets are back on the ice for the final skate before the NHL regular season kicks off tomorrow. They are likely going to practice on Wednesday before they host the Calgary Flames on Thursday night in their season/home opener.

The big news of the morning was that the Jets lost Eric Comrie and Luca Sbisa to waiver claims although they were able to retain veteran forward Mathieu Perreault as well as Nelson Nogier and CJ Suess.

They have to get down to 23 players by 4 pm CST today (with 4-6 on their taxi squad) and they made their first move towards roster reduction on Monday when they assigned seven players to the Moose which took them to 31 players on the roster. The waiver claims of Comrie and Sbisa reduces this number to 29.

Photo Credit: John Delaney (Winnipeg Jets)

According to Ken Wiebe of Sportsnet here are the line rushes and D pairs:

Ehlers-Scheifele-Wheeler
Connor-Stastny-Laine
Copp-Lowry-Appleton
Perreault-Thompson-Lewis
Vesalainen-Gustafsson

Morrissey-Poolman
Forbort-Pionk
Beaulieu-DeMelo
Niku rotating in

Hellebuyck
Brossoit

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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.