Posts About "Blake Wheeler"
Jets/Thrashers' Top 10 All-Time Goal Scorers
August 8th, 2020 In 1999, the Atlanta Thrashers began play as the NHL’s newest expansion team. After years of Ilya Kovalchuk scoring highlight-reel goals, the team relocated to Winnipeg in 2011 where the Winnipeg Jets 2.0 have played ever since. Related: Top 3 All-Time Jets Goalies Only being in the league for 20 years, players drafted in...
Jets' Brief, Disappointing Playoffs Filled with "What Ifs?"
August 8th, 2020 Well... that certainly wasn't worth the wait. After four-and-a-half months of waiting for the NHL to resume from its COVID-19 season suspension, and a ton of hype from many media outlets on how the Winnipeg Jets could be a sleeper team in the 24-team playoff format and turn some heads with a deep run, they weren't and they didn't....
Winnipeg Jets News & Rumors: Wheeler, Top Lines, Berdin & More
July 30th, 2020 Tonight, the Winnipeg Jets (37-28-6) will get ready to take on the Vancouver Canucks (36-27-6) in exhibition action. When the regular-season was suspended more than four months ago, the Jets and the Canucks were scheduled to play on Mar. 15. Then, everything sports-related stopped. Related: Winnipeg Jets News & Rumors: Hawerchuk,...
Jets Limited Playoff Experience Stacks Up Well Against Flames
July 25th, 2020 When the Winnipeg Jets take on the Calgary Flames beginning Aug. 1 in their best-of-five play-in series, they'll be icing a squad without a ton of postseason experience. The 33 players on their Phase 3 Training Camp roster have a combined 498 games of playoff experience. 11 of them have never played in a postseason game, where the...
Jets' 5 Greatest U.S.-born Players
June 15th, 2020 The NHL awarded its first Vezina Trophy, honoring the league's top regular-season goalie, in 1926-27. Since then, only six U.S.-born netminders have earned the award. As you know, Connor Hellebuyck is poised to become the first in Jets' history to win the Vezina, and first U.S.-native to do so since 2011, when Boston's Tim Thomas won...
8 Former Thrashers Still Active in the NHL
April 20th, 2020 Unlike the common bird itself, former Atlanta Thrashers are a fading breed. Recently, Winnipeg Jets' defenseman Dustin Byfuglien's contract was officially terminated. It's highly unlikely the big blueliner — who decided on the eve of training camp back in September that he did not want to play in 2019-20 — will ever skate in an...
Top 15 NHL Power Forwards
April 16th, 2020 It is a rare commodity for a player to have size, skill and intelligence to put it all together on a nightly basis. This particular combination is defined as a power forward. Through the NHL's history, many have excelled in this role. Cam Neely was a player that scared opponent's going into the corner just as much as he did getting...
Jets' Top Five Games of 2020
April 7th, 2020 The Winnipeg Jets certainly faced a lot of adversity in the 2019-20 NHL season, and when they overcame that adversity, it was often quite exciting. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to rob us of the Jets' last 11 contests, which were bound to be electric as the team was in the thick of the Western Conference wild card...
Jets Players Reach Out With Messages of Hope Amid COVID-19 Crisis
March 19th, 2020 If the COVID-19 pandemic has you feeling anxious, you're far from alone. Trying to cope as a highly-contagious virus sweeps across the globe isn't easy: the uncertainty of how it'll impact family, friends, and finances, how long one may have to practice "social distancing," and the long-term impact it will have on the world as a whole...
Capitals Strike the Right Deal With Backstrom
January 19th, 2020 There are certain molds of players in the NHL that are quite rare and hard to come by. A franchise goaltender, or an elite D-man make great examples. But there's another staple for every team that will always remain a focal point — the versatile, two-way center. Nicklas Backstrom is just that and was rewarded handsomely with his...
Wheeler Lifts Jets to 4-3 Shootout Win Over Maple Leafs
January 8th, 2020 TORONTO — Blake Wheeler scored the winner in the shootout as the Winnipeg Jets edged the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 on Wednesday, overshadowing a milestone performance by Auston Matthews. Nikolaj Ehlers, Mason Appleton and Mark Scheifele scored in regulation time as the Jets (24-16-4) won their second straight game. Connor...
NHL's Top 5 Right Wingers of the Decade
January 3rd, 2020 In a sport where scoring is king, the 2010s can be defined by the prowess of some of the best forwards to play the game. As the decade comes to a close, let's look back at some of the NHL's best right-wing forwards who dominated the decade. By all accounts, Jakub Voracek has been one of the best right wingers of the decade. He just...
Jets' Top 5 Games of the 2019-20 Season So Far
December 24th, 2019 In the first half of 2019-20, the Winnipeg Jets have proven those who wrote them off before the season even began wrong. Despite facing a ton of adversity in the offseason and plenty more during the first 38 games of the campaign, the Jets sit at 21-14-2. Going into the season, it seemed more likely they'd have the inverse of their...
