{"id":640779,"date":"2026-05-01T12:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640779\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:52:14","slug":"winnipeg-jets-morning-papers-todays-hockey-headlines-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640779\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets Morning Papers: Today\u2019s Hockey Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note: It was an <a href=\"https:\/\/illegalcurve.com\/manitoba-moose-playoff-practice-report-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">informative day of practice<\/a> in Winnipeg on Thursday for the Moose, as it was revealed that Jets prospect Elias Salomonsson, who played in two elimination games in Round 1, is <a href=\"https:\/\/illegalcurve.com\/moose-coach-mark-morrison-declares-jets-d-prospect-elias-salomonsson-done-for-season-needs-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">done for the season<\/a> after having surgery on his shoulder. He is expected to undergo 5-6 months of rehabilitation. Nikita Chibrikov, who was never sent down by the Jets but remained a possibility for the Moose playoff roster, is <a href=\"https:\/\/illegalcurve.com\/winnipeg-jets-prospect-nikita-chibrikovs-injury-is-season-ending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">also done for the season<\/a> as he underwent successful core muscle surgery last week and will be sidelined six to eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Note II: Another day of practice for the Moose down at hfac and we will have it all covered so stay tuned for the Practice Report ahead of Game 1 which goes on Saturday here in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Note III: Jets prospect Sascha Boumedienne (2025 1st) had two goals for Sweden including the GWG as they rolled to an 8-1 win over Switzerland, at the Fortuna Hockey Games which is a precursor to the World Championship. Here in North America prospect Edison Engle (2025 6th) with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ICdave\/status\/2050060687699845521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the primary assist<\/a> to Caleb Malhotra (who could hear his name called by Winnipeg at the upcoming 2026 Draft) as they open the scoring in Game 5.<\/p>\n<p>Jets\/Moose news:<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Free Press:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/sports\/2026\/04\/30\/bauer-no-longer-one-trick-pugilistic-pony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bauer no longer one-trick pugilistic pony<\/a>. (Paywall). Moose bench boss Mark Morrison and GM Kevin Cheveldayoff\u2019s comments show you that he is held in high regard by the organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208191\" class=\"wp-image-208191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MF-April-24-2026-5459.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-208191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Mathieu Ferrand (Illegal Curve)<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Free Press:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/breakingnews\/2026\/04\/30\/next-man-up-mentality-for-battle-tested-moose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2018Next man up\u2019 mentality for battle-tested Moose<\/a>. (Paywall). Opportunity could be knocking for a fellow prospect as Garrett Brown (2022 4th) who is fresh off a National Championship with Denver might be seeing his first pro game on Saturday in the second round of the Calder Cup playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jets prospect news:<\/p>\n<p>McKeen\u2019s Hockey:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckeenshockey.com\/nhl-blog\/mckeens-2026-nhl-prospect-report-18-winnipeg-jets-organization-overview-top-15-prospects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> 18 Winnipeg Jets \u2013 Organization Overview \u2013 Top 15 Prospects<\/a>. Interesting assessment of the kids in the Jets pool.<\/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":"Note: It was an informative day of practice in Winnipeg on Thursday for the Moose, as it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-640779","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\/640779","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=640779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}