{"id":491001,"date":"2026-02-22T00:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491001\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:43:10","slug":"winnipeg-jets-head-coach-scott-arniel-declares-neal-pionk-ready-to-go-for-vancouver-illegal-curve-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491001\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets head coach Scott Arniel declares Neal Pionk ready to go for Vancouver \u2013 Illegal Curve Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jets defenceman Neal Pionk last played for Winnipeg back on January 13th in a game where he did not look quite right. The speculation was he sustained an injury five days earlier against the Oilers but he tried to play with whatever was ailing him.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203676\" class=\"wp-image-203676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CS-November-18-2025_6656.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-203676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)<\/p>\n<p>After missing 11 games he will return to the lineup on Tuesday when the Jets begin the post-Olympic break in Vancouver. That\u2019s according to head coach Scott Arniel who spoke today after practice and provided the update:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cHe\u2019s obviously ready to go for Vancouver which is great news\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the status of Josh Morrissey, who will miss the Gold Medal game between Canada and the United States remains uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/logoillegalnew.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jets defenceman Neal Pionk last played for Winnipeg back on January 13th in a game where he did&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-491001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491001","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=491001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}