{"id":658152,"date":"2026-05-09T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658152\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:40:10","slug":"winnipeg-jets-morning-papers-todays-hockey-headlines-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658152\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets Morning Papers: Today\u2019s Hockey Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note: The Moose and Griffins battled in Game 4 of their best-of-five series last night, with the home team scoring three power-play goals on their way <a href=\"https:\/\/illegalcurve.com\/manitoba-moose-season-comes-to-an-end-as-griffins-win-series-in-grand-rapids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">to a 5-2 victory<\/a> that eliminated Manitoba from the playoffs in four games. They will now return to Winnipeg where we will have a chance to conduct end of season media avails but their 2025-26 season on the ice has drawn to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Note II: On Friday, the Jets <a href=\"https:\/\/illegalcurve.com\/winnipeg-jets-outline-multi-million-dollar-overhaul-of-canada-life-centre-facilities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">outlined a multi-million dollar overhaul<\/a> of Canada Life Centre facilities which sounds like it will be a massive upgrade for players next season.<\/p>\n<p>Note III: Join us for two hours of hockey talk on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show as we discuss the Jets sliding to the 8th overall pick during the NHL Lotto, who might be an option for them at eighth, we\u2019ll cover all the latest from the NHL playoffs, discuss the second round series between the Moose and Griffins as well as anything else that may be Jets related. Show link is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/y6sahXGuAp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jets news:<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic Winnipeg: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7261517\/2026\/05\/08\/winnipeg-jets-connor-scheifele-secondary-scoring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mark Scheifele and Kyle Connor are stars. The Jets can\u2019t win with them alone<\/a>. (Paywall). As great as these two players are, the reality in hockey is you also need a great supporting cast and this past season that just wasn\u2019t present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208466\" class=\"wp-image-208466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CS-March-24-2026_5882-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-208466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)<\/p>\n<p>Daily Faceoff: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/after-world-junior-gold-jets-sascha-boumedienne-has-sights-set-on-world-championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">After World Junior gold, Jets\u2019 Sascha Boumedienne has sights set on World Championship<\/a>. The Jets first rounder from 2025 continues to gain valuable experience during this past year.<\/p>\n<p>Moose news:<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Free Press:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/breakingnews\/2026\/05\/08\/powerhouse-griffins-put-moose-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Powerhouse Griffins put Moose down<\/a>. (Paywall). Mike recaps the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Sun: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegsun.com\/sports\/winnipeg_jets\/like-that-it-s-over-moose-ahl-playoff-run-ends-at-seven-games\/article_c9afec28-f700-4897-a1f0-dac46e5823cb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Like that, it\u2019s over: Moose AHL playoff run ends at seven games<\/a>. Lots of value for the young guns playing in these playoff games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MLive: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/griffins\/2026\/05\/griffins-advance-to-central-division-finals-with-game-4-win-over-moose.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Griffins advance to Central Division Finals with Game 4 win over Moose<\/a>. A view of the game from the perspective of someone who covers the Griffins.\u00a0<\/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: The Moose and Griffins battled in Game 4 of their best-of-five series last night, with the home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-658152","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\/658152","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=658152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}