{"id":73384,"date":"2025-08-16T05:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73384\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T05:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:29:07","slug":"jets-top-defenceman-earns-place-on-nhl-networks-top-20-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73384\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets’ Top Defenceman Earns Place on NHL Network’s Top-20 List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winnipeg Jets defenceman Josh Morrissey has been named to the NHL Network’s annual Top-20 list.<\/p>\n

Each offseason, amid the dog days of summer’s slowest period through mid-August, the NHL Network slowly releases its list of the league’s Top-20 players at each position.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Isaiah Downing\/USA Today<\/p>\n

Released systemically and over a lengthy period of time, NHL Network compiles 20 wingers, 20 centres, 20 defencemen and 20 goaltenders in advance of training camp, sparking debate amongst NHL fans throughout North America.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

This time around, Winnipeg’s top blueliner, Josh Morrissey, earned the honour of being NHL Networks’ No. 6 defenceman in the league, earning a bump up the rankings from last year’s No. 12 placement.<\/p>\n

Morrissey helped his Jets to a league-best record and a second-consecutive Jennings Trophy for the team allowing the fewest goals against. Personally, the 30-year-old blueliner racked up 14 goals, 62 points and 22 penalty minutes in 80 games for the Jets last year. He earned his second Top-5 Norris Trophy voting finish, while leading the Jets with 24:23 ice time per game last year. He was a plus-22 and had 22 power play points on the season.<\/p>\n

Morrissey, who is Winnipeg’s heart and soul on the back-end, is up to 80 goals, 373 points and 321 penalty minutes in his 662-game career over nine seasons with the Jets.<\/p>\n

NHL Network’s full Top-20 Defencemen list:<\/p>\n

Cale Makar, Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n

Quinn Hughes, Vancouver Canucks<\/p>\n

Zach Werenski, Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n

Miro Heiskanen, Dallas Stars<\/p>\n

Victor Hedman, Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n

Josh Morrissey, Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n

Rasmus Dahlin, Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n

Jaccob Slavin, Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n

Roman Josi, Nashville Predators<\/p>\n

Evan Bouchard, Edmonton Oilers<\/p>\n

Charlie McAvoy, Boston Bruins<\/p>\n

Gustav Forsling, Florida Panthers<\/p>\n

Jake Sanderson, Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n

Thomas Harley, Dallas Stars<\/p>\n

Shea Theodore, Vegas Golden Knights<\/p>\n

Adam Fox, New York Rangers<\/p>\n

Devon Toews, Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n

Mikhail Sergachev, Utah Mammoth<\/p>\n

Lane Hutson, Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n

Brock Faber, Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets defenceman Josh Morrissey has been named to the NHL Network’s annual Top-20 list. Each offseason, amid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[24944,740,45350,741,49,45339,48,748,45341,758,755,757,45347,453,36386,747,45342,36387,41846,45338,10097,45345,761,45340,743,760,751,448,44229,744,12430,45346,45344,45349,82,745,17589,45348,765,452,767,44901,449,45343],"class_list":["post-73384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-adam-fox","tag-boston-bruins","tag-brock-faber","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-ca","tag-cale-makar","tag-canada","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-charlie-mcavoy","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-dallas-stars","tag-devon-toews","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-evan-bouchard","tag-florida-panthers","tag-gustav-forsling","tag-jaccob-slavin","tag-jake-sanderson","tag-josh-morrissey","tag-lane-hutson","tag-mikhail-sergachev","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-miro-heiskanen","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nashville-predators","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-network","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-quinn-hughes","tag-rasmus-dahlin","tag-roman-josi","tag-shea-theodore","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-the-jets","tag-thomas-harley","tag-utah-mammoth","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-victor-hedman","tag-winnipeg-jets","tag-zach-werenski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73384","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=73384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}