Jets Transactions
Bryan Little Worth Every Penny Of Extension
September 18th, 2017 Bryan Little could have earned a lucrative contract anywhere in the NHL upon conclusion of his deal with the Jets. He could have signed a massive contract to carry him right through to retirement. Instead, Little committed to the only franchise he's ever known ahead of...
Hendricks Signing Reveals Deep Mistrust in Jets Fanbase
August 30th, 2017 The Winnipeg Jets' signing of veteran tough guy Matt Hendricks to a cheap, one-year deal should not have been big news. Hendricks is a late offseason veteran addition, the kind most teams make this time of year, and should not have inspired any vitriol in Jets fans. Yet...
Jets Plug Holes in Free Agency
July 3rd, 2017 The Winnipeg Jets, in past years, have at most dipped a toe in the muddy waters of free agency. This year they hiked up their bathing suits, held their breath and dove in. Never before have the Jets handed out so much money to free agents as they did on this July 1. The...
Deal Benefits Both Trouba & Jets
November 9th, 2016 A trend has recently been growing amongst the 90's-born players in the NHL, where contract disputes result in holdouts, to become plastered headlines on front pages featuring the game's current young stars — Jacob Trouba is no stranger to this trend. The young...
Replacing Jacob Trouba
June 17th, 2016 With rumors looming over Jets defenseman Jacob Trouba, the team and their fan base must deal with the chances that the team will be without one of their top defenders next season. Last week The Hockey Writers Rob Mahon discussed rumors surrounding...
The Tyler Myers Trade: One Year Later And The Winner Is...
February 12th, 2016 Man, it's hard to believe it's already been a year. It's been 365 days since Tyler Myers and Evander Kane swapped teams along with Drew Stafford and Zach Bogosian and a smattering of prospects, and a year on you could argue there has been no winner of the exchange....
Time for the Winnipeg Jets to Swim in the Trading Pool
January 5th, 2016 Apparently it was all the rage this week for young players to request trades from the teams that drafted them, and if the Winnipeg Jets play their cards right they stand to benefit in a big way. Not a day after it emerged that Jonathan Drouin had requested a trade out...
Adam Lowry is not the Problem in Winnipeg
December 18th, 2015 Ask a Winnipeg Jets fan what the problems leading to the team' mediocre start have been and you likely won't hear the name Adam Lowry in reply. Nevertheless, on Wednesday it was Adam Lowry who bore the brunt of the punishment for the Jets' recent failures as he was...
Bring It On Home, Travis Hamonic
November 20th, 2015 After five full seasons with the New York Islanders, Travis Hamonic is ready to come home. For their part, the Winnipeg Jets should be ready to receive the St. Malo native with open arms. Normally, rumours of a player requesting a trade are either ignored or quickly...
Winnipeg Jets Roster Trimmed Down To Size (Almost)
September 29th, 2015 You knew cuts were coming to the Winnipeg Jets roster even before the debacle in Minnesota. In the aftermath, some of those cuts must have been all too easy for Paul Maurice and company to make. Indeed, Maurice may have relished sending certain players to the American...
Jets Bring in Thomas Raffl on PTO
September 2nd, 2015 The Winnipeg Jets have given 6-foot-4 Austrian forward Thomas Raffl -- brother of the Flyers' Michael Raffl -- a professional tryout contract (PTO) to try and make the Jets out of camp, according to the German-language Kurier. Raffl's upside figures to be a depth winger....
Back to Forward for Byfuglien
September 1st, 2015 A couple of items have dominated the headlines for Jets fans over the summer, and those are the contract extensions of two faces of this franchise; Dustin Byfuglien and Andrew Ladd. There has been much talk on the Ladd subject and it appears a deal will be...
Jets Give David Leggio PTO
September 1st, 2015 The Winnipeg Jets have offered a professional tryout contract (PTO) to goaltender David Leggio, according to Buffalo Hockey Beat's Bill Hoppe. Leggio has had an interesting career. An undrafted goaltender, Leggio has been a journeyman since graduating from Clarkson...
