Posts About "Sami Niku"
Niku Finally Returns to Jets Lineup After Tough 2019
January 7th, 2020 Jan. 6, 2020: the day Sami Niku played his second NHL game of a season where he seemed a lock to be on the Winnipeg Jets’ blue line every night. Niku's Traversed a Rocky Road in 2019-20 Niku’s road back to the NHL has been a path filled with potholes one, to say the least. A big-league role was his to lose coming into a...
Manitoba Moose December Review
January 2nd, 2020 The Manitoba Moose had an up-and-down December after a strong November, posting a 5-7-0-0 record as they dealt with call-ups to key personnel such as leading scorer Jansen Harkins, and a number of injuries. They began the month by finishing off a seven-game road trip with their first game of the season against the Rockford IceHogs....
Jets' Journeymen Blueliners Face Tough Test
December 4th, 2019 Three players who likely weren't on the Winnipeg Jets' radar at all at the end of last season — and certainly weren't on their radar for starring roles — are now part of the main cast for the foreseeable future due to a depleted defensive corp that keeps getting dealt blow after blow. The Ascended Extras A trio of fringe...
Manitoba Moose November Review
December 2nd, 2019 The Manitoba Moose had a strong November after their disastrous one-win October. Despite a number of players making the jump to the Winnipeg Jets — such as Joona Luoto, Logan Shaw, and Michael Spacek — and dealing with a number of injuries to key personnel — such as Seth Griffith, Sami Niku, Peter Stoykewich, and Logan Stanley —...
Jets Need to Persevere with a Patchwork Defence
November 29th, 2019 The scrappy, hard-working Winnipeg Jets keep finding ways to win and are really starting to roll; they're 5-0-1 in their past six games. Related: Winnipeg Jets Are Embracing a New Work Ethic They are 9-2-1 in November and 15-9-1 overall, sit third in the Central Division at the all-important American Thanksgiving threshold. What...
Jets Weekly: Laine, Niku, Road Trip & More
November 18th, 2019 Welcome to Winnipeg Jets Weekly, where you can catch up on the past week of Jets' hockey. From hot topics to news and notes, this is where you can find all things Jets related throughout the 2019-20 season. The Jets are starting to play with some consistency and the results are showing. They are 7-2-1 in their last 10 games and...
Jets Need Niku Now
November 11th, 2019 The Winnipeg Jets sent Sami Niku down to the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League at the beginning of the season to get him up to speed after a nagging groin injury limited him to one preseason game. The conditioning stint was the right move, as it's allowed Niku to play big minutes and get his confidence back. Confidence is...
Andrew Copp and Sami Niku Lead Jets Past Wild 4-1
September 19th, 2019 WINNIPEG — Andrew Copp and Sami Niku factored into a pair of goals 38 seconds apart to spark the Winnipeg Jets to a 4-1 exhibition victory over the Minnesota Wild on Wednesday. Copp took a long cross-ice pass from the Finnish defenceman and fired a hig...
3 Jets with Something to Prove in 2019-20
August 10th, 2019 Every player comes into training camp with a personal agenda and things they want to improve on from last season. However, there are three Winnipeg Jets players in particular that should be rolling into town next month with chips on their shoulders and feeling they've got something to prove. Connor Hellebuyck Connor Hellebuyck...
Jets Prospect Pool Suddenly Deep on Defense
June 28th, 2019 The Winnipeg Jets learned the hard way in 2018-19 that defense can make or break an NHL team. Luckily, they seem to be on track to turn it back into a strength. Between injuries to Josh Morrissey and Dustin Byfuglien, and some perplexing personnel decisions, the Jets defensive depth was exposed in both the regular season and the...
3 Fixes for the Winnipeg Jets
May 6th, 2019 While there are many teams for whom a tight first-round playoff series would be considered a step forward, for the Winnipeg Jets, their early ouster in the postseason can only be viewed as a failure. A team once hyped up by The Hockey News as the 2019 Stanley Cup winner, and who seemed to be living up to that hype after an excellent...
Jets Should Ditch Dmitry Kulikov
May 2nd, 2019 The Winnipeg Jets have quite the to-do list in what is an integral offseason for a team that made a disappointing first-round exit in the Stanley Cup Playoffs last month. One of the items on that list should be to solve their Kulikov conundrum. Kulikov Contract is the Jets' Worst Of all the team-friendly contracts Jets general...
The Case for Trading Jacob Trouba
April 25th, 2019 Over the past six seasons, Jacob Trouba has developed from a blue-chip prospect to an elite defenseman and a stalwart on the Winnipeg Jets' blue line. Trouba, alongside Josh Morrissey on the Jets' top defensive pairing, has been tasked with shutting down the opponent's best for many seasons. He has logged an average of nearly 23 minutes...
