{"id":842303,"date":"2026-08-02T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/842303\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:45:16","slug":"winnipeg-jets-morning-papers-todays-hockey-headlines-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/842303\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets Morning Papers: Today\u2019s Hockey Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note: The Jets are down to just one RFA, as defenceman\u00a0Tyrel Bauer\u00a0has yet to sign a new contract. It\u2019ll be interesting to see whether they consider a Johnny Kovacevic-type deal, one with a bit more term in the hope of discouraging a waiver claim.<\/p>\n<p>Jets video:<\/p>\n<p>TSN:\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/video\/2026\/08\/01\/sweden-expects-bjorck-to-be-with-jets-and-unavailable-for-world-junior-title-defence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sweden expects Bjorck to be with Jets and unavailable for World Junior title defence<\/a>. Viggo Bjorck was selected eighth-overall by the Winnipeg Jets in June\u2019s NHL Entry Draft, and while Sweden would love to have him back to defend their World Juniors gold, head coach Magnus Havelid says it wouldn\u2019t surprise him if the crafty young forward stuck on the Jets roster.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210033\" class=\"wp-image-210033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/E0926145-7CE6-4E94-B8A0-CED63F15AC40.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-210033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)<\/p>\n<p>TSN: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/video\/2026\/08\/01\/jets-prospect-klingsell-aims-to-become-more-complete-player-in-bid-to-make-world-junior-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jets prospect Klingsell aims to become more complete player in bid to make World Junior team<\/a>. Viktor Klingsell scored in Sweden\u2019s final Summer Showcase game against Finland, and he joined Mark Masters to chat about his development, and how much it would mean to him to crack Sweden\u2019s World Juniors roster this upcoming season.<\/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 Jets are down to just one RFA, as defenceman\u00a0Tyrel Bauer\u00a0has yet to sign a new contract.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-842303","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\/842303","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=842303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}