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Winnipeg Jets head coach with updates on Nikolaj Ehlers and Colby Barlow

The Jets will be in action later tonight and they are off tomorrow (with some cuts potentially on the horizon). For now head coach Rick Bowness was asked for health updates on Nikolaj Ehlers (neck spasms) and 2023 1st rounder Colby Barlow (flu).

Photo Credit: Luke Perrett (Ehlers) & Colby Spence (Barlow) (Illegal Curve)

As per the Jets bench boss with respect to Barlow:

“Sick. Ya he’s having a tough time. He’s very congested. It’s unfortunate but he’s still not feeling very well.”

With respect to Ehlers:

“Nik’s skating today. Wednesday he’ll skate with the big groups. We were hoping to have him in these games. Obviously that’s not going to happen. We’ll have to give him a couple of days to get his legs back underneath him.”

Regarding Barlow you wonder if he would have been part of the cuts as it is expected that the guys that will be cut are the guys being sent back to their junior teams. Maybe the team keeps him to get him a game on Wednesday night before returning him to Owen Sound.

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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