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Winnipeg Jets Cole Perfetti is “still not close to skating yet”

It has been almost a month since Cole Perfetti took a hit in a game here in Winnipeg on February 17th against the Seattle Kraken from Jamie Oleksiak and was labeled as dealing with a “upper-body (injury) and he’ll be maybe a little longer than day-to-day”.

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A few weeks later (March 1st) during a media availability the update from Jets interim head coach Dave Lowry indicated that “No he’s not skating. He’s still aways away”.  Shortly thereafter (March 4th) with the team needing to make some cap room they placed him on LTIR.

Following last night’s 7-3 win over the Golden Knights in his post-game media availability the status of the 2020 1st rounder came up to which interim head coach Dave Lowry replied Perfetti is “still not close to skating yet”.

Tough news for the young prospect who was making nice strides in the NHL.

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.

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