Winnipeg Jets Morning Papers

Note:  All three Jets prospects (Ville Heinola, Henri Nikkanen and Cole Perfetti ) at the World Juniors tournament were in action on Sunday. While none of the trio found the scoreboard on Sunday in their teams wins, Heinola had a huge impact on the game playing over 25 minutes while doing things like this and that.

Note II:  Normally we’d publish our overseas prospect report this morning but as a number of players are playing tonight (which is essentially this afternoon in Winnipeg).  You can read it here.

Note III: Some Sunday afternoon news as former Jets forward Mark Letestu has retired.  Perhaps his biggest Jets highlight goes to his mustard munching which seemed to create quite a buzz during the 2019-20 pre-season.

Jets news:

NBC Sports:  Jets 2020-21 NHL season preview.  He takes a look back at last season, the additions, the subtractions, lists his three most interesting Jets, gives a best-case scenario, a worst-case scenario and ends with the Jets odds.

The Athletic: Jets 2020-21 NHL season preview. (Paywall). Don’s assessment of the Jets doesn’t project them as a playoff team this season.

Sportsnet: Ranking the top 250 fantasy hockey players for 2021. Quite a few Jets on this list including Mark Scheifele (13) , Connor Hellebuyck (29), Blake Wheeler (30), Kyle Connor (36), Patrik Laine (49), Nikolaj Ehlers (51), Neal Pionk (151) and Paul Stastny (221).

Photo Credit: Colby Spence

Winnipeg Free Press: Dale Hawerchuk’s death at 57 broke hockey fans’ hearts. (Paywall).  His passing really impacted a lot of Manitobans.