{"id":189088,"date":"2025-10-04T07:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/189088\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:52:07","slug":"jets-cole-perfetti-to-be-re-evaluated-after-lower-body-injury-vs-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/189088\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets’ Cole Perfetti to be re-evaluated after lower-body injury vs. Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Winnipeg Jets<\/a> suffered two blows to their starting lineup in their final pre-season tilt.<\/p>\n

Defenceman Dylan DeMelo<\/a> exited in the first period, before forward Cole Perfetti<\/a> left at the end of the second frame during a game against the Calgary Flames on Friday night.<\/p>\n

DeMelo was seen walking down the tunnel to the dressing room after taking a stick up high from Blake Coleman and did not return for the start of the second or third periods.<\/p>\n

Perfetti also did not return for the beginning of the third, after recording 8:29 of ice time over the first two frames. His last shift came as time expired for in the second period. <\/p>\n

Jets head coach Scott Arniel said on the 680CJOB post-game show that Perfetti has a lower-body injury that “doesn\u2019t look great” at first glance. The centre will be re-evaluated.<\/p>\n

DeMelo, 32, is set to enter his 11th NHL season and seventh with Winnipeg. He scored three goals and added 16 assists while playing in all 82 games for the Jets in 2024-25. The blue-liner hasn’t missed a game for two consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n

Perfetti is entering his fifth season with the club after they selected him 10th overall in 2020. The 23-year-old forward has 125 points (47 goals, 78 assists) in 222 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Jets suffered two blows to their starting lineup in their final pre-season tilt. Defenceman Dylan DeMelo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-189088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}