TSN Insider Trading | Darren Dreger discusses the injury to Winnipeg Jets winger Kyle Connor

Earlier today Mike McIntyre of the Winnipeg Free Press indicated that Kyle Connor was looking at a 6-8 week recovery timeline. However Jets head coach Rick Bowness wasn’t prepared to set any timetable for his top goal scorer saying this after morning skate in San Jose:

“Kyle is heading back to Winnipeg. He’ll be reevaluated by our doctors tonight when he gets in and we’ll go from there. As of now he’s not playing tonight or tomorrow and we’ll know more tonight once our doctors have a chance to examine him themselves.”

Asked if there was a timeline

“Not until we hear from our doctors”.

Tonight on TSN Insider Trading Darren Dreger was asked for an update on the situation:

“Initially the thinking is that it could be as few as six weeks or as long as long as eight weeks but that’s cautiously optimistic. The Winnipeg Jets needed to get Kyle Connor back to Winnipeg so he could be fully evaluated by their trusted doctors and specialists in Winnipeg. As we could see this was a violent, knee-on-knee collision. The initial worry was that there was significant ligament damage here. But until there’s more testing and more imaging the Jets can’t be sure which is why they also haven’t confirmed that six to eight week timeline.”

You can watch it here.

With Thursday being a travel day the likelihood is we will hear something on Friday after practice.