After a day off on Friday the playing group hit the ice earlier with the non-playing group also skating at the IcePlex. As per Ken Wiebe of Sportsnet here are the players who took part in the skate.

Participating Players:

Goialie: Arvid Holm

Defencemen: Josh Morrissey, Dylan DeMelo, Kyle Capobianco, Johnny Kovacevic

Forwards: Kyle Connor, Mark Scheifele, Nikolaj Ehlers, Sam Gagner, Morgan Barron (non-contact).

Cuts next?:

The Jets are expected to reduce their training camp roster today which was sitting at 47 players to start the day.

Media availability:

Topics:

1) Ceremony for Dale Hawerchuk
2) Seeing the old teammates in town for the ceremony (1:19)
3) What is the first thing that comes to mind when he thinks of Dale? (1:38)
4) Dressing strongest lineup of pre-season (2:29)
5) Pairing Samberg and Heinola (3:24)
6) Getting to know the players (4:14)
7)  Questions coming from the players (5:12)
8) What is he looking at in his D pairings? (5:44)
9) Battles at camp for spots (6:29)
10) Commemorating Dale Hawerchuk in the manner they are (7:38)

Up next:

The Dale Hawerchuk ceremony opens to the public at 4:30 PM and the ceremony begins at 5:15 PM. The playing group will take on the Oilers tonight in Winnipeg. Puck drop is at 7 PM and the game can be watched on TSN 3.

David Minuk

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