{"id":863684,"date":"2026-08-19T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863684\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:36:17","slug":"winnipeg-jets-morning-papers-todays-hockey-headlines-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863684\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets Morning Papers: Today\u2019s Hockey Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note: Perhaps you have a Jets or Moose related question. If you do\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mikemcintyrewpg?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mike McIntyre<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wiebesworld?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ken Wiebe<\/a>\u00a0of the Winnipeg Free Press are accepting questions today for this month\u2019s mailbag. Please send them a DM via social media to submit one to them.<\/p>\n<p>Jets news:<\/p>\n<p>TSN: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/uncertainty-lingers-around-jets-in-preparations-for-2026-27\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Uncertainty lingers around Jets in preparations for 2026-27<\/a>. Largely re-examines the Hellebuyck situation, looks at the offseason additions and more.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic Winnipeg: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7518788\/2026\/08\/18\/winnipeg-jets-roster-projection-2026-2027-2028\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Projecting the Winnipeg Jets\u2019 opening-night roster in 2026, 2027 and 2028<\/a>. (Paywall). I tend to agree with Murat that the opening night roster for this season is a bigger challenge to predict more so than in previous seasons. Although some things aren\u2019t difficult to project (see photo below).\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>The Athletic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7519175\/2026\/08\/18\/nhl-prospects-rankings-pipeline-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Winnipeg Jets are No. 28 in NHL Pipeline Rankings for 2026<\/a>. (Paywall). He doesn\u2019t have a particularly high opinion of the prospect depth in the \u2018Peg. Not sure his assessment of Elias Salomonsson as a \u201cthird pairing Dman\u201d is going to hold up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sportsnet: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/lingering-nhl-off-season-questions-will-hellebuyck-talks-heat-up-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lingering NHL off-season questions: Will Hellebuyck talks heat up again<\/a>? Emily looks at the questions ahead of the NHL season including the situation with Hellebuyck.<\/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: Perhaps you have a Jets or Moose related question. If you do\u00a0Mike McIntyre\u00a0and\u00a0Ken Wiebe\u00a0of the Winnipeg Free&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-863684","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\/863684","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=863684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863684\/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=863684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}