Winnipeg Jets Morning Papers

Jets news:

Winnipeg Sun:  Baseball night in Winnipeg coming August 8th.  Looks like Jets Assistant GM Craig Heisinger will be throwing out the first pitch and a number of other hockey related activities are planned for Shaw Park.

Winnipeg Free Press:  Jets announce Simmons as assistant general manager.  He has been with the franchise since the start in Atlanta.

CBA news:

MLive.com:  No progress in latest round of negotiations.  Hopefully you don’t plan on spending your August long weekend waiting for a negotiation eureka moment, because it isn’t going to happen.

NHL news:

National Post:  Canucks’ Ryan Kesler won’t be ready before December, agent says.  The good news is Vancouver won’t be here until February so you will be able to see #17 lace em up.  I guess that technically the above ‘good news’ could be viewed as ‘bad news’.

CBC:  Tuukka Rask ready to be Bruins’ top goalie.  All well and good but what are his views on Chik-Fil-A?

The Hockey News:  Why the Northwest continues to be the NHL’s worst division. Perhaps sending the Jets there in 2013-14 wouldn’t be such a bad idea.

Sportsnet:  ‘Trying like hell’ to move Islanders to Brooklyn.  Could this be a move towards smaller, more intimate NHL arenas?

CFL Report:

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