Winnipeg Jets Practice Report

It’s been a few days since we wrote a regular season Jets Practice Report. 175 days to be precise, but it’s finally time to kick off the 2026-27 regular season in Winnipeg. The team was off on Tuesday, the first official day of the NHL regular season, after spending a few days in Colorado Springs bonding as a group and trimming the roster to 23 players.

The biggest question mark will be the health of update for Elias Salomonsson, who is ahead of schedule as per Scott Arniel, but we haven’t had an update since we last spoke with the Jets bench boss last Friday.

As well today will be an introduction to the newest goalie in the system after Winnipeg claimed Clay Stevenson from Washington on Monday.

Skate news:

Elias Salomonsson in a yellow, non-contact jersey.

Lines & D Pairs:

Connor – Scheifele – Perfetti
Rosén – Björck – Vilardi
Barron – Lowry – Lambert
Niederreiter – Namestnikov – Iafallo
Koepke

Morrissey – DeMelo
Samberg – Pionk
Ferraro – Bauer
Fleury – St. Ivany

Skinner & Stevenson

Player media:

Coach media:

Topics:
1) Decision to get Clay Stevenson off waivers/comfort they had in goalies.
2) What was the message to Brayden Yager? (1:09)
3) Importance of Adam Lowry returning to form (1:44)
4) Thoughts on outside projections? How much pressure is he feeling? (2:52)
5) Any value in being counted out? (4:01)
6) Expectation is they’ll use all 23 off the hop? (4:20)
7) Assessing team building in Colorado Springs (5:03)
8) How do they avoid the Hellebuyck distraction on the road? (6:08)
9) Did they have a plan B if Hellebuyck did show up? (6:54)
10) Status of Elias Salomonsson? (7:00)

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