#NHLJets beat writer who gets words deep for @WinnipegNews; 6x author; Left life of crime (reporting) behind in 2016; Husband, Dad x2, Rescue Dog Owner x2.
Dec 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
11 points for the three members of the #NHLJets top line tonight.
Ehlers 2G 2A
Vilardi 1G 3A
Scheifele 2G 1A
Just spoke to all three in the Winnipeg dressing room here in Los Angeles. Some very interesting comments. Especially from Vilardi.
Tonight meant a ton to him.
#NHLJets Gabe Vilardi on what tonight meant, with a career-high 4 points in 1st visit to LA since trade
"Obviously you saw it out there. I was here and now I’m gone. I was drafted here, my time here playing here was amazing but at the end of the day, they didn’t want me."
Feb 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Fascinating exchange with #NHLJets coach Rick Bowness down here at Madison Square Garden about player compete level, accountability.
Here it is, in the following thread.
Bowness: "I've got to do a better job getting these guys working harder for 60 minutes."
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Me: Fair enough, but how do you as a coach make players to work harder? Shouldn't that be on them?
Bowness: "Well I'm going to have to start sitting some guys. I'll have to do that. And then it's their fault. It's not the coach picking on them."
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Feb 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Good evening from Newark.
Game 2 of a 4-game road trip for the #NHLJets, who got things started with a 3-1 loss in Columbus Thursday.
New Jersey is red-hot. 12-2-2 last 16 including 5-2 win in Pittsburgh yesterday.
Hellebuyck vs Blackwood.
Puck drop 6 pm. CT.
#wfp
Scouts from the following nine teams at tonight’s #NHLJets game here in New Jersey.
San Jose, St. Louis, Boston, Arizona, Vegas, Edmonton, Seattle, Tampa Bay, Nashville.
Trade deadline is 12 days away.
Feb 18, 2023 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Greetings from Newark. Interesting beginning to #NHLJets practice. Only a small group of players on ice to start. And head coach Rick Bowness pulled aside Nikolaj Ehlers, Nate Schmidt and then Mark Scheifele for one-on-one chats. #wfp#NHLJets starting with PP work.
First group is Mark Scheifele, Blake Wheeler, Cole Perfetti, Josh Morrissey and Nate Schmidt.
Second group is Kyle Connor, Nikolaj Ehlers, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Kevin Stenlund and Neal Pionk.
We're underway from Bell MTS Place, as the 23-11-7 #NHLJets take on the 10-21-9 Buffalo Sabres. Hellebuyck vs Johnson is your goalie match-up. #wfp
Unlike last night's Toronto-San Jose game, I can confirm no beards have been pulled or torn so far in the opening minute of tonight's contest.