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Connor Hellebuyck, Mark Scheifele Sign 7-Year Jets Contracts Worth $8.5M per Season FRANCISCO ROSAOCTOBER 9, 2023   The Winnipeg Jets are wrapping up their offseason in a big way.   With just one day remaining until the NHL's opening night, the organization locked down both goalie Connor Hellebuyck and centre Mark Scheifele to multiyear deals Monday, ensuring their futures north of the border, according to an announcement by Jets.   Hellebuyck and Scheifele signed identical seven-year deals worth $8.5 million per season. Both players were set to become unrestricted free ..read more

Winnipeg Jets Sign Colby Barlow to Entry-Level Contract  SEPTEMBER 21, 2023   The Winnipeg Jets announced on Thursday, September 21st, that they’ve agreed to terms on a three-year entry-level contract with their 2023 18th overall draft selection Colby Barlow. Barlow’s three-year entry-level contract carries an average annual value of $1.2 million per season. Barlow’s salary will be made up of $855,000 in base salary and $95,000 in signing bonuses.   The 18-year-old Barlow posted 46 goals and 39 assists for 79 points in 59 games with the Owen Sound Attack of the Ontario Hoc ..read more

Winnipeg Jets sign Brad Lambert to a three-year entry-level deal   The Finnish center is the first Winnipeg Jets 2022 draftee to sign an ELC. ByNaftali Clinton Published - October 12, 2022 Jul 7, 2022; Montreal, Quebec, CANADA; Brad Lambert after being selected as the number thirty overall pick to the Winnepeg Jets in the first round of the 2022 NHL Draft at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: Eric Bolte-USA TODAY Sports   The Winnipeg Jets have announced the signing of Brad Lambert to a three-year entry-level contract. The deal carries an AAV of $1.2 million annually. Lambert was ..read more

Hawerchuk honored by Jets with bronze statue in True North Square Hall of Fame forward, who died in 2020, played nine of 16 NHL seasons in Winnipeg   https://www.nhl.com/news/dale-hawerchuk-statue-unveiled-by-winnipeg-jets/c-335977904   ..read more

WHEELER, TEAMMATES REACT AFTER JETS STRIP CAPTAINCY The Winnipeg Jets have announced that Blake Wheeler will no longer serve as team captain heading into the 2022-23 NHL season.   MIKE STEPHENS   SEP 16, 2022   James Guillory-USA TODAY Sports   There will be a new leadership core in Winnipeg this season.      Days before training camp is set to open, the Winnipeg Jets issued a surprising announcement on Friday morning, declaring that former captain Blake Wheeler will be stripped of the 'C' and that the club will enter the 2022-23 season with a lead ..read more

Winnipeg Jets closing in on Rick Bowness as next head coach   WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- The Winnipeg Jets are closing in on Rick Bowness as their head coach.   A Jets spokesperson told The Canadian Press on Friday that while nothing was finalized, the 67-year-old Bowness "is the person we're focusing on as our next head coach."   Bowness spent most of the past three NHL seasons coaching the Dallas Stars. He led them to the 2020 Stanley Cup Final in the playoff bubble in Edmonton, where the Stars lost to the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Stars lost to Calgary in over ..read more

  Jets get first-round pick for Copp as Rangers reach ECF The Winnipeg Jets will receive a first-round pick as part of their compensation for Andrew Copp after the New York Rangers advanced to the Eastern Conference Final on Monday. TSN.ca Staff     The Winnipeg Jets will receive a first-round pick as part of their compensation for Andrew Copp after the New York Rangers advanced to the Eastern Conference Final on Monday. The Jets received forward Morgan Barron, a conditional second-round pick. a 2022 second-round pick and a 2023 fifth-round p ..read more

PRESEASON OUTLOOK They lost in the North to the Canadiens after Scheifele was suspended for a nasty hit on Jake Evans. Honestly? The Jets were the better team and it quite likely cost them their best chance ever at a cup final. They entered the year another year plder but with Scheifele, Conner, Hellboy, Ehlers, the hope was that they had another run in them.   FINAL RECORD 39-32-11 89 points, 6th in the Central.   HIGH POINT OF THE YEAR They started the year 0-2-1 then caught fire stomping on everyone on the way to a 9-3-1 record. They looked bound and determined to make up for the ..read more

WINNIPEG JETS HOCKEY HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES   01. 1983: Bobby Hull 02. 1986: Serge Savard 03. 2001: Dale Hawerchuk 04. 2015: Phil Housley 05. 2017: Teemu Selanne 06. 2017: Clare Drake   WINNIPEG JETS U.S. HOCKEY HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES 01. 2001: Dave Christian 02. 2003: Dave Silk 03. 2004: Phil Housley 04. 2007: Aaron Broten 05. 2011: Keith Tkachuk 06. 2012: Eddie Olczyk 07. 2016: Craig Janney ..read more