Posts About "Ville Heinola"
Winnipeg Jets Top 10 Prospects for 2020-21
October 17th, 2020 The Winnipeg Jets' prospect pool is not as deep as it used to be. Many of their "first wave" of draftees now comprise the highly-productive core of their team, such as Kyle Connor, Andrew Copp, Nikolaj Ehlers, Connor Hellebuyck, Patrik Laine, Adam Lowry, Josh Morrissey, and Mark Scheifele. Related: Jets NHL Draft Days...
Jets Roster Hopefuls for the 2020-21 Season
October 15th, 2020 As the Winnipeg Jets look ahead to the 2020-21 NHL season which is expected to start in January, they will have many options to consider for the bottom of their lineup. After a disappointing end to their 2020 play-in series against the Calgary Flames, the Jets will look to bounce back and an injection of exciting youth to play...
Jets Prospects Who Could Make the Jump to the NHL
August 29th, 2020 In what many would call an unfortunate string of bad luck, the Winnipeg Jets continue to recover from a season defined by injuries. As they look ahead to next season, it's impossible to ignore the incoming wave of talent representing the next generation of Jets hockey. While the Jets certainly do not boast an elite prospect pool,...
Jets' Trade for Kevin Hayes is Paying Off Nicely
August 3rd, 2020 After spending five seasons in a New York Rangers' uniform, Kevin Hayes was traded to the Winnipeg Jets on February 25, 2019. Hayes, a pending free agent at the time, was sent to Manitoba in exchange for Winnipeg's 2019 first-round pick, bottom-six forward Brendan Lemieux, and a conditional fourth-round draft pick in 2022. Related:...
3 Jets Prospects With a Shot Next Season
March 20th, 2020 You’ve seen players like Jansen Harkins and Mason Appleton make the permanent jump from the Manitoba Moose to the Winnipeg Jets this season. Both players became regulars in the lineup, but which AHL players can force their way into a roster spot for the Jets next season? There are top-prospect defenders like Dylan Samberg and...
Jets Can't Deal Connor or Ehlers to Fill Defensive Holes
February 15th, 2020 Kyle Connor trade rumours began last week, and this isn’t the first time the media rumoured the Winnipeg Jets trading a star forward. https://twitter.com/mikemcintyrewpg/status/1225985796580290560 During the summer, Nikolaj Ehlers was the subject of trade rumours between the Jets and Buffalo Sabres. A deal involving...
Jets' Heinola and Gustafsson to Play Key Roles at 2020 WJC
December 24th, 2019 In just two more sleeps, the first round-robin games of the year's most exciting hockey tournament will begin. Boxing Day is almost as (if not just as) highly-anticipated as Christmas Day for hockey fans around the globe, who enjoy seeing both their countries vie for gold medal glory and their favourite team's top prospects strut their...
2020 WJC Team Finland Final Roster
December 23rd, 2019 Can Team Finland be the first team in over 10 years to win back-to-back gold medals at the IIHF World Junior Championships? This roster definitely has the talent. They are in Pool A where their biggest, and arguably their only, competition is Team Sweden. It's very possible, and the team will be expecting nothing less. With the...
Jets' 2019 Draft Class Update
December 14th, 2019 With all the storylines that have surrounded the Winnipeg Jets in the past six months — high-profile offseason defensive departures, Kyle Connor and Patrik Laine's contract holdouts, Dustin Byfuglien's sudden and still-unresolved leave of absence, the uncertainty surrounding the squad going into the season, and their surprisingly...
Jets’ Top 10 Prospects – November Update
December 4th, 2019 As we enter the third month of the National Hockey League season, I figured now would be as good of a time as ever to follow-up on my Winnipeg Jets’ Top 10 Prospects piece I wrote back in August and see where the 10 players are at with their respected clubs. It is interesting to see some of the players on this list...
2020 WJC Team Finland Preview
December 4th, 2019 After a gold medal victory at the 2019 IIHF World U20 Junior Hockey Championship, Team Finland is coming back looking for a consecutive first-place finish. If they can pull it off, it will be the first time since Canada's five-year run from 2005-2009 that a team has won back-to-back World Juniors Championships. Finland will be...
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: Little, Heinola, Line Shuffling & More
November 11th, 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. It was another interesting week in Jets land. This season has had no shortage of storylines, some good, some bad, some...
