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Live Blog: Winnipeg Jets Skills Competition

9:10 pm: Pictures, videos, interviews and results will be posted on site.

9:00 pm: I head down to the Jets room. Interviews with Scheifele, Trouba, Thorburn and Clitsome.

8:55 pm: Winner were Team White. Mark Scheifele accepts it on behalf of his team.

8:45 pm: Relay. Team White behind Ondrej Pavelec were the winner.

8:15 pm: Hardest shot. Unexpectedly Anthony Peluso won this event hittin 103.9. Buff hit 100 a couple of times.

8:00 pm: Relay is over. Lots of fun and lots of interference.

7:42 pm: Bryan Little dominates the shot accuracy competition going 4/5 in 12 seconds. Next closest was Eric O’Dell at 4/6 in 15.8 seconds.

7:30 pm: Despite a good effort from Blake Wheeler, Mark Scheifele pulls off the fastest time at 13.67.

7:15 pm: Team Blue playing up the crowd and signing autographs.

7:05 pm: Players are being introduced.

7:00 pm: Voice of the Jets on TV and Radio Dennis Beyak and Brian Munz are on the ice and ready to host tonight’s Skills Competition.

6:30 pm: Glass has been removed around the ice to give fans a better view of the events.

6:15 pm: Slow up in the Press Box. Just myself and Scott Billeck (Manitoba Hockey News) upstairs. Fans slowly filtering into the building.

Here are the rosters:

TEAM WHITE	TEAM BLUE
Adam Pardy	Mark Stuart
Keaton Ellerby	Jacob Trouba
Evander Kane	Olli Jokinen
Anthony Peluso	Andrew Ladd
Bryan Little	James Wright
Chris Thorburn	Grant Clitsome
Eric Tangradi	Blake Wheeler
Dustin Byfuglien	Toby Enstrom
Mark Scheifele	Devin Setoguchi
Michael Frolik	Eric O’Dell
Ondrej Pavelec	Al Montoya

Next we list the event that will take place this evening. Feel free to submit a guess as to who you think will perform best in each of these events.

EVENT #1 – FASTEST SKATER


	TEAM WHITE	TEAM BLUE
PLAYER 1	Evander Kane	Olli Jokinen
PLAYER 2	Keaton Ellerby	Jacob Trouba
PLAYER 3	Chris Thorburn	Toby Enstrom
PLAYER 4	Michael Frolik	Blake Wheeler

* Player with fastest time wins five points for his team.

EVENT #2 – ACCURACY SHOOTING


	TEAM WHITE SHOOTER	TEAM BLUE SHOOTERS
PLAYER 1	Eric Tangradi	Devin Setoguchi

PLAYER 2	Mark Scheifele	Eric O’Dell

PLAYER 3	Bryan Little	Olli Jokinen

* Fastest four target hits wins five points for his team.

EVENT #3 – PUCK CONTROL RELAY


	TEAM WHITE	TEAM BLUE
HEAT #1	Evander Kane	Blake Wheeler
	Michael Frolik	Olli Jokinen
	Mark Scheifele	Devin Setoguchi
HEAT #2	Adam Pardy	Mark Stuart
	Keaton Ellerby	Grant Clitsome
	Dustin Byfuglien	Toby Enstrom
HEAD TO HEAD	Bryan Little	Evander Kane

* Winners of each heat get one point.

* Head to head winner gets three points.

EVENT #4 – HARDEST SHOT


	TEAM WHITE	TEAM BLUE
PLAYER 1	Keaton Ellerby	Andrew Ladd
PLAYER 2	Adam Pardy	Jacob Trouba
PLAYER 3	Anthony Peluso	Devin Setoguchi
PLAYER 4	Dustin Byfuglien	Grant Clitsome

* Player with hardest shot wins five points for his team.

EVENT #5 – BREAKAWAY COMPETITION


	TEAM WHITE	TEAM BLUE
	Mark Scheifele	Blake Wheeler
	Anthony Peluso	James Wright
	Evander Kane	Devin Setoguchi
	Eric Tangradi	Mark Stuart
	Keaton Ellerby	Toby Enstrom
	Adam Pardy	Jacob Trouba
	Chris Thorburn	Grant Clitsome
	Michael Frolik	Eric O’Dell
	Dustin Byfuglien	Olli Jokinen
	Bryan Little	Andrew Ladd
Goalies	Ondrej Pavelec	Al Montoya

* Every player participates.

* One point awarded for every goal and every save.

* Five points awarded to goalie with most saves.

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.