\u201cThere\u2019s a bunch of different factors. But winning the national championship and having a great run there definitely helped,\u201d said Brown who has been skating with the Moose for a week now.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been in talks for a while now and this was the plan maybe even just a little bit before that. I was just kind of figuring out what I wanted to do. After the tournament and everything we went through, it felt right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Put yourself in the young\u00a0defenceman\u2019s shoes for a moment. The kid wins his last 17 games in college hockey, wins a national title and shortly afterwards signs his first professional contract.
\u201cIt was so awesome. They (the Jets) were great during this whole experience,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have been nothing but kind and welcoming, answering questions with full honesty. Nothing but supportive and awesome and I am super excited to be here.\u201d
The 2022\u00a0NHL Draft class for the Winnipeg Jets looks to be in good shape. They traded first round pick Rutger McGroarty to Pittsburgh Penguins for the Penguins\u2019 first round pick Brayden Yager, who made his NHL debut earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Second round selection Elias Salomonsson played well enough in his second go-round in the NHL this season to earn top four minutes, while third round pick Danny\u00a0Zhilkin looked more and more comfortable over his six games with the Jets.<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s Brown (fourth round), Fabian Wagner (sixth round), and goaltender Dominic DiVincentiis, who looks more and more like a steal in the seventh round.<\/p>\n
Brown will be skating with all of his draft class with the Moose during their Calder Cup Playoff run and will be seeing more of Jets prospects again when development camp runs at the end of June.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been to (development camp) a couple of times here with these guys. I\u2019ve never skated at camp due to some injuries, so I know these guys,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut not being in here and being in a smaller team setting, it\u2019s not camp, so you get close right away. We grabbed dinner last night and it\u2019s nice to be around the guys. We\u2019re building some good friendships.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere\u2019s a bunch of different factors. But winning the national championship and having a great run there definitely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-632348","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\/632348","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=632348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}