Winnipeg Jets assign Henri Nikkanen to Moose; training camp roster at 28

The Jets have continued to whittle down their training camp roster cutting it down by 18 players over this past weekend and then making further reductions this week. Yesterday they placed Jeffrey Viel on waivers which got them down to 29 players left at main camp. We learned today that Viel cleared so he can be assigned to the Moose.

The big news of the day was the assignment of prospect Dman Elias Salomonsson (2022 2nd) to his Swedish club Skelleftea where he is expected to have a big role this season. Of course that didn’t reduce the training camp roster as he had already been assigned to the Moose earlier this week.

Winnipeg also announced that Henri Nikkanen would be heading to the Moose now that the defensive forward is healed up after dealing with a thumb issue for most of Jets training camp.

His assignment brings the Jets training camp roster down to 28.

Forwards (15): Vlad Namestnikov, Alex Iafallo, Gabriel Vilardi, Rasmus Kupari, Adam Lowry, David Gustafsson, Mason Appleton, Nikolaj Ehlers, Morgan Barron, Mark Scheifele, Nino Niederreiter, Parker Ford, Axel Jonsson-Fjallby, Kyle Connor and Cole Perfetti.

Defence (9): Dylan DeMelo, Neal Pionk, Brenden Dillon, Ville Heinola, Josh Morrissey, Declan Chisholm, Dylan Samberg, Logan Stanley and Nate Schmidt.

Goalies (3): Connor Hellebuyck, Laurent Brossoit and Collin Delia

Injured (1): Kyle Capobianco.

Reminder the Jets, prior to the start of the season, has to provide the NHL with their “Opening Day Playing Roster” of 23 players.