{"id":847152,"date":"2026-08-05T16:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847152\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:10:20","slug":"winnipeg-jets-morning-papers-todays-hockey-headlines-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847152\/","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>Note II: Jets prospect Zach Nehring spent the offseason focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/illegalcurve.com\/winnipeg-jets-prospect-zach-nehring-wanted-to-add-size-without-slowing-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">adding strength without sacrificing mobility<\/a> as he prepares to return to Western Michigan for his junior season.<\/p>\n<p>Jets news:<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Free Press:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/sports\/2026\/08\/04\/central-remains-toughest-division-in-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Central remains toughest division in league<\/a>. (Paywall). Wieber gives you a rundown of the Jets and the teams in their division as they look to rebound after their fall from first place to out of the playoffs last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210057\" class=\"wp-image-210057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CS-March-26-2026_9917.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-210057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)<\/p>\n<p>Dobber Hockey: <a href=\"https:\/\/dobberhockey.com\/2026\/08\/04\/dobbers-offseason-fantasy-grades-winnipeg-jets-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jets Fantasy Grades<\/a>. If you\u2019re interested in fantasy they look at the NHL club of Winnipeg from that perspective in this piece.<\/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":847153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-847152","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\/847152","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=847152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}