Now in his second season as bench boss of the Winnipeg Jets hear from Rick Bowness as he gets set to kick off training camp.
Topics:
1) Thoughts heading into training camp (:20)
2) How the pieces will be assembled (1:15)
3) Playing Cole Perfetti at centre (2:03)
4) Does his familiarity change his approach? (2:37)
5) Does the way they played Vegas to start series change his thoughts? (3:57)
6) Keeping chances down while increasing chances for themselves (4:35)
7) Opportunities on the power play (5:36)
8) How can he ward off this year what happened to them last year in Jan/Feb/March? (6:15)
9) How does the culture evolve under Adam Lowry and move on from Blake Wheeler? (6:57)
10) What’s his objective in the first week of training camp? (7:52)
11) What’s he looking for specifically? (8:30)
12) How does he move forward from the exit meetings? (9:25)
13) How did he handle that? Did he talk to players individually? (9:36)
14) Can he shed any light for fans on what it will be like going forward? (10:15)
15) How does he deal with six players on expiring contracts? (10:46)
16) Can Jets be beneficiaries of guys playing for next contracts? (11:26)
17) What about the distraction it creates? (11:42)
18) With Laurent Brossoit in the fold, will Connor Hellebuyck starts come down? (12:16)
19) The glut of defenceman (12:41)
20) Same issue with depth of forward crew (13:37)
21) Has he tried to assess why the slide seemed to happen to so many at same time? (14:26)
22) Giving guys “on the bubble” a fair shot (15:36)
23) Does it feel like it’s a big year for this franchise? (16:42)
24) Anyone injured coming into camp? (17:35)
Notable:
Extrapolating Jets lines from today’s media chat:
Connor-Scheifele-Vilardi
Ehlers-Perfetti-Niederreiter
Iafallo-Lowry-Appleton
Barron-Kupari-Namestnikov
Expect more practicing this season.
With Laurent Brossoit in the mix it might mean a more reduced load for Connor Hellebuyck.
Only player coming into Jets training camp with an injury is Wyatt Bongiovanni. He’s dealing with a groin issue so it will cost him a few days.
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