{"id":796068,"date":"2026-07-12T00:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796068\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:39:11","slug":"nighthawks-captain-vigfusson-thrives-at-nhl-development-camp-the-carillon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796068\/","title":{"rendered":"Nighthawks captain Vigfusson thrives at NHL development camp \u2013 The Carillon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Vigfusson couldn\u2019t have authored a better ending to his first professional hockey experience.<\/p>\n

Vigfusson scored the final goal during the Winnipeg Jets Development Camp, deking blocker side in a shootout attempt to give team Blue the victory in Friday\u2019s scrimmage over team White in the last on-ice action of the camp.<\/p>\n

Jets prospects, including 2023 first-rounder Brayden Yager rushed the ice to celebrate with the Manitoba Junior Hockey League player.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNighthawks head coach Dwight Hirst was a guest coach at the Winnipeg Jets’ development camp. (Cassidy Dankochik The Carillon)<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s my go-to move and it worked out,\u201d Vigfusson said with a big smile following the conclusion of the camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll these guys have a future in the sport and to go through that was pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vigfusson was preparing for his first season at the NCAA division 1 level when he got the invitation from Jets director of player development Jimmy Roy to join the NHL team\u2019s development camp as a free agent.<\/p>\n

The Gimli product scored 61 points in 40 regular season games in his 20-year-old for the Niverville Nighthawks, captaining them to Turnbull and Centennial Cup championship wins.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was super eager to come out here and work with these guys and learn as much as possible,\u201d Vigfusson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was such a cool experience and I loved every second of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fans might not have recognized Vigfusson on the ice at the Jets camp. After getting hit with a puck to the jaw late in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League season he returned wearing a bubble all throughout the league playoffs and at the Centennial Cup. Vigfusson dropped the full face protection for the NHL camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely an adjustment,\u201d he said with a chuckle.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt good to be in a visor again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdam Vigfusson was a free agent invite to the 2026 Winnipeg Jets development camp. (Cassidy Dankochik The Carillon)<\/p>\n

He was named tournament most valuable player at the Centennial Cup, drawing attention from Division 1 scouts and nabbing an NCAA offer. This development camp was the perfect place for Vigfusson to get a preview of what life at the collegiate level will look like.<\/p>\n

Of the 32 players invited to Winnipeg\u2019s development camp, 13 of them played last season at the Division 1 level in the NCAA, including three who played in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, the same league as St Cloud.<\/p>\n

\u201cLearning throughout camp was the main takeaway for me,\u201d Vigfusson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLearning from top end guys and seeing how much talent there is out here. It\u2019s incredible and to be apart of it was awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Niverville head coach Dwight Hirst was a guest coach at the camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Vigfusson couldn\u2019t have authored a better ending to his first professional hockey experience. Vigfusson scored the final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,5239,280670,448,280671,82,449],"class_list":["post-796068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hockey","tag-mjhl","tag-nhl","tag-niverville-nighthawks","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796068","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=796068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}