{"id":110660,"date":"2025-09-01T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110660\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:50:07","slug":"top-prospects-for-winnipeg-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110660\/","title":{"rendered":"Top prospects for Winnipeg Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How acquired: Selected with No. 30 pick in 2022 NHL Draft<\/p>\n<p>2024-25 season: Winnipeg (NHL): 5 GP, 0-1-1; Manitoba (AHL): 61 GP, 7-28-35<\/p>\n<p>Lambert is expected to make the jump to the NHL full time this season after playing the past two seasons in the American Hockey League. The 21-year-old center is a fast, talented offensive player who will continue to work on his defensive game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His strength is going to be his speed and his ability to push people back,&#8221; Jets director of player development Jimmy Roy said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not quite [Nikolaj] Ehlers speed, but it&#8217;s close and that ability to make plays off the rush and use his speed, I think this past year, he understood how to get more pucks to the net, get inside defensemen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lambert (6-foot-1, 173 pounds) got a taste of the NHL last season, and the Jets hope he can help fill the void left by the departure of Ehlers to the Carolina Hurricanes in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His biggest thing to make that jump is getting stronger, physically getting stronger, from his legs to his upper body,&#8221; Roy said. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s done that this summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Projected NHL arrival: This season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How acquired: Selected with No. 30 pick in 2022 NHL Draft 2024-25 season: Winnipeg (NHL): 5 GP, 0-1-1;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-110660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}