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Winnipeg Jets overseas prospects report XII

During the course of doing this overseas report the Jets had 14 draft picks or players under contract playing in the KHL, SHL, Liiga, DEL, DEL2, Slovakian league and HockeyAllsvenskan.

Now that the NHL has resumed and the World Juniors are taking place there are just four healthy prospects left playing overseas as well as two injured ones.

Players on loan:

1. Leon Gawanke

Eisbären Polar Bears (DEL): 3 GP 0 goals 0 assists 3 blocked shots. Averaging 18:25 of time on ice.

Change since last week: 0 GP

Next game: January 5th.

2. Arvid Holm

Farjestads BK Karlstad (SHL): 7-8-1, 2.63 GAA .919 save%

Change since last week: 1 GP no wins 1 OT loss. He gave up three goals on 38 shots in an overtime loss.

Next game: January 7th.

Other Jets prospects in Europe:

1. Santeri Virtanen

SaiPa Lappeenranta (Liiga): 21 GP 2 goals 5 assists, averaging 16:51 of ice time per game.

Change since last week: 1 GP no goals 1 assist. He picked up an a nice primary assist in a SaiPa win.

Next game: January 9th.

Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)

2. Simon Lundmark

Linkopings HC (SHL): 21 GP 2 goals 3 assist, averaging 13:03 of ice time per game.

Change since last week: 2 GP 0 goals 0 assists.

Next game: Tonight.

Injured:

1. Anton Johannesson

HV71 J20: Hasn’t played a game yet this season.

Status: None. Murat Ates of The Athletic Winnipeg reported that the Jets 2020 5th rounder is recovering from surgery on his foot.

In my chat with his countryman David Gustafsson he gave me his coles notes on the Jets 2020 5th rounder.

2. Daniel Torgersson

Frölunda HC J20 (J20 Nationell): 10 GP 4 goals 5 assists.
Frölunda HC (SHL): 2 GP 0 goals 0 assists, averaging 3:22 of ice time per game.

Status: None. Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff was asked for an update ahead of training camp in Winnipeg and said this “Torgersson, he got hurt early, very early in his season over there and had to have some surgery. I believe he’s on the recovery process and hopefully when things resume more normally that he’ll be back.”.

In my chat with his countryman David Gustafsson he gave me his coles notes on the Jets 2020 2nd rounder.

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.