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<\/p>\nThe National Hockey League\u2019s trade deadline for the 2025-26 campaign has come and gone, seeing our Winnipeg Jets become sellers for the first time in a while. General Manager Kevin Cheveldayoff ended up shipping out a few veterans in Logan Stanley, Luke Schenn, & Tanner Pearson for packages that included a couple of player and picks. <\/p>\n
Both skaters acquired from the Buffalo Sabres are going to make their debuts for the True North franchise tonight when Winnipeg squares off against the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday evening. The fans at the Canada Life Centre will get to welcome forward Isak Rosen and defenseman Jacob Bryson to the province of Manitoba, as the two players begin the next stage in their NHL careers. I think it will be very interesting to see #27 on a Winnipeg Jets\u2019 jersey again, as that is the digit that Rosen will be wearing. If the young Swede can come close to replacing the clubs\u2019 former #27 (Ehlers), then he will quickly find a spot in the hearts of the fanbase, but that could be too high of expectations on the kid. <\/p>\n
Yesterday, Chevy had indicated in his press conference that the Jets will be doing their best to get some of the organizational youth slotted into the line up over the rest of the regular season, but the number of players that can be recalled is limited to 5. Two of those slots have been used on Rosen and fellow forward prospect Brad Lambert, while other Moose players like Elias Salomonsson & Ville Heinola are expected to remain with Winnipeg for the rest of the year. Somewhat surprisingly, the front office didn\u2019t send Ville down to the AHL on the trade deadline, so he is the only one of these players that won\u2019t be eligible for the minor league playoffs. The Jets\u2019 GM also mentioned that he would like to see other prospects like Brayden Yager and Tyrel Bauer get rewarded with some NHL playing time, so it will be interesting to see how things play out over the final 21 contests.<\/p>\n
Time to switch over to discuss the two franchises that will be meeting in the Peg tonight\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg (25-26-10) is sitting with the NHL\u2019s 6th worst record this year, with the 9th worst offense (175 GF) and the 14th best defense (187 GA).<\/p>\n
Vancouver (19-36-7) are the league\u2019s worst club, with the 5th worst offense (163 GF) and the NHL\u2019s most porous defense (233 GA). <\/p>\n
Here is how the two clubs\u2019 year-to-date stats compare, via\u00a0ESPN\u2018s\u00a0team & goaltender comparison numbers:<\/p>\n
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The Winnipeg Jets rarely have a statistical advantage of against the opposition this season, but tonight will be a rare exception. The Vancouver Canucks only hold a slight lead in one category, powerplay success rate. <\/p>\n
I am a bit disappointed by how the Jets have slotted in the young prospects for tonight\u2019s match, as I think high-end talent forwards like Rosen & Lambert should be given a chance to play with Winnipeg\u2019s top players, but that won\u2019t be the case in Game 1 of the \u201cyouth movement\u201c. Here are the line up projections for both clubs via\u00a0PuckPedia and you can let me know your thoughts about them in the Comment section:<\/p>\n
WINNIPEG JETS LINE UP<\/p>\n
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VANCOUVER CANUCKS LINE UP<\/p>\n
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A 6 pm Central start will see Winnipeg & Vancouver kick off their game and both teams will be looking to extend winning streaks. The Jets have gotten points in their last 5 matches, winning the 2 most recent ones, while the Canucks ended a 7 game losing streak last night versus the Chicago Blackhawks. <\/p>\n
Alright\u2026.I am way behind schedule on this site (haven\u2019t even updated the stats from the last game, I just realized)\u2026..so I will sign off now. Feel free to join me here to discuss tonight\u2019s hockey action. Might feel more like an AHL game, or perhaps an NHL pre-season game with all the youth involved on both squads\u2026but that is the post-trade deadline reality for sellers like the Jets & Canucks. <\/p>\n
Go Winnipeg Jets!!!!!<\/p>\n
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POST-GAME INFO<\/p>\n
Scoring Summary:\u00a0(courtesy of ESPN)<\/p>\n
FINAL SCORE:\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Game\u00a0Stats:\u00a0(courtesy of MoneyPuck)<\/p>\n
Expected Goals (all):\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Expected Goals (5on5):\u00a0<\/p>\n
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BOJA\u2019S Post-Game Thoughts:<\/p>\n
Post-game stuff will be updated around 10 pm tonight as the only thing I am planning on doing tonight is chill out, eat Chinese food, and watch hockey. Enjoy your weekend everyone!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Hockey League\u2019s trade deadline for the 2025-26 campaign has come and gone, seeing our Winnipeg Jets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-521381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521381","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=521381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}