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Winnipeg Jets head coach Rick Bowness indicates Gabriel Vilardi won’t play tonight vs Kraken

Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)

The Jets have been without Gabriel Vilardi for two games and around one period as he missed the final frame in Dallas to kick off their three-game road trip. He didn’t practice the next day in Texas and on Saturday Rick Bowness revealed after the game against the Hurricanes in Carolina that he had been sent back to Winnipeg for evaluation. Turns out he had been dealing with something that had been “been bugging him for a couple of days”.

Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)

Today the Jets take on the Kraken and following morning skate, which was absent Vilardi, head coach Rick Bowness indicated he will not play against the Kraken this evening but will travel with the team on the road. He wouldn’t commit to Vilarid being available for the Friday re-match with Seattle simply saying “we’ll deal with it on Friday” when pressed for more information.

He later confirmed that it is an upper-body injury and that Vilardi hasn’t skated on his own.

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.