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Towering Tyler Myers Primed and Ready for Training Camp Winnipeg Free Press https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/hockey/jets/ready-to-make-an-impression-in-the-peg- 443635373.html Towering Tyler Myers primed and ready for training camp By: Jason Bell Tyler Myers talked openly, radiating contentment and a bit of relief, on Monday following a morning skate at the Iceplex with most of his teammates. The Winnipeg Jets defenceman says he’s confident his body has healed, adding he's primed and ready for the NHL club’s official training camp, which begins with medicals Thursday. Most importantly, his young son, Tristan, is healthy too. "Growing like a weed," said the proud papa. "He’s doing well." Indeed, it’s a blessing considering the struggles the little guy went through after he was born five weeks premature in January. Understandably, very little of the family struggle Tyler and his wife, Michela, went through at the time was made public. It was later reported Tristan had been delivered by emergency C-section and was born without about 80 per cent of his blood due to a fetal maternal hemorrhage. For days, the situation was life and death as the newborn received blood transfusions and stayed in the neonatal intensive care unit. Tristan also suffered through seizures and a stroke. Thankfully, several weeks later he had recovered to a point where the new parents could finally take their son home. "It was tough but he’s a little fighter, he got through it and everything’s looking up now," said Myers, of his now eight-month-old son. It was a distressing season for the veteran defenceman, who suited up for just 11 games during the 2016-17 campaign. He scored a pair of goals in the first eight games of the season, missed five contests with a lower-body injury, returned and provided three assists in three games and then was forced out of the lineup again. The 6-8, 230-pound Myers, who hails from Houston, Tex., is looking for a bounce-back campaign after the season of recurring hip and groin problems. "Obviously, it was a tough year being out as long as I was and with other things going on," he said. "It’s a great feeling to be skating with the guys again." Jets head coach Paul Maurice reiterated Monday that Myers will get a green light for training camp, but acknowledged caution will be taken to ensure the towering D-man doesn’t have a setback. "We’re going to be careful because over the last three months he wasn’t going at 100 per cent… we may keep him out of certain things," he said. "I’d like to get him into an exhibition game fairly early just to get him back into game speed, but we’re going to let him kind of tell us how he’s feeling in terms of where he goes in." Myers' absence and injuries to Toby Enstrom, who missed a total of 22 games, ripped holes in the Jets defensive core that were difficult to plug. By season's end, Winnipeg had allowed 256 pucks to enter its net, fourth-most in the NHL, an ugly stat blamed on defensive miscues, poor goaltending, undisciplined play and a below-average penalty kill. Myers was on the club’s final road trip to St. Louis and Columbus in May, saying then he was ready and willing to play. The club had other ideas, and Myers altered his focus to be prepared for the fall. "I would have loved to be able to come back, even if it was just for one at the end but that’s not the way it worked out. I had a good summer of working hard to get back and feeling good coming into camp and I’ll continue to work hard to feel even better," he said. Myers joins a defensive unit that includes Enstrom, Dustin Byfuglien, Jacob Trouba, Josh Morrissey, Dmitry Kulikov and Ben Chiarot. Kulikov, a Russian-born, left-shooting blue-liner, was signed July 1 to a three-year US$13-million contract. Gone from the mix is Mark Stuart and Paul Postma, while Julian Melchiori and Nelson Nogier are destined to begin with the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League. "The depth that we have now on the back end with some of the moves we made this summer, bringing in Kuli and even our young guys that are fighting for spots, too, it’s exciting to see," said Myers, who has 59 goals and 139 assists in 473 NHL games. He came to Winnipeg in the mega-trade that saw Evander Kane and Zach Bogosian shipped to Buffalo during the 2014-15 season. "Whenever you have that much depth on the back end, it’s a good sign that you have a good team. But this league is so close. You gotta come together as players and execute," he said. "You look at our goals-for, goals-against last year. We didn’t have a problem scoring goals. We have so much fire power that’s the least of our worries. When I talk about tweaking a few things, part of that is keeping the puck out of the net." Morrissey said the addition of a healthy Myers is akin to management making a major off- season acquisition. "He’s a special player. He’s someone who does things that not many guys can do, at his size, at both ends of the ice, offensively and defensively," said Morrissey. "For us to see (Myers) healthy coming in here is awesome… just happy that he’s back and want him to have a great year. It’s huge for us to add (him) back." https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/gritty-lemieux-drops-weight-adds-speed- 443849443.html Gritty Lemieux drops weight, adds speed Power forward took steps during off-season to become stronger, faster, more resilient to injury By: Mike Sawatzky Brendan Lemieux is a 21-year-old who feels the need for speed — anything to accelerate his progress to the NHL. In 2016-17, his debut as a pro, the results were mixed. He showed some good things (a gritty work ethic with a goal-scoring touch to accompany his well-known nasty streak), but a broken foot ruined his start and a major injury to his other foot (suffered on March 15, his birthday) served up an early end to his season. In the off-season, the 6-1, 210-pound power forward wanted to redefine himself — to be lighter without sacrificing strength and more resilient to injury. The improvements did not come easily. "There was a lot to do with staying healthy, but there were improvements that I wanted to make in my game," Lemieux said after a Winnipeg Jets mini-camp workout at the Bell MTS Iceplex on Monday morning. "And, one of those was, the game’s getting fast, the game’s getting light, even for guys who are power forwards. Even for the guys who are physical, you still want to be quick. "And so I made it a goal of mine to lose some mass, some size I was carrying that I didn’t need. With that, I feel faster and got a little bit leaner and kinda take a different approach. Focus more on the cardio aspect of things, the endurance side of the game and the quickness side of the game." Lemieux, who scored 12 times and finished with 19 points as a member of the AHL’s Manitoba Moose last season, went home to train in Orange County, Calif., and dropped more than 10 pounds as he prepped for 2017-18. He said he feels better than ever. When training camp opens Friday morning at the Iceplex, Lemieux will be battling at least six other candidates for work on Winnipeg’s fourth line. Staying healthy is a priority. Last season, he was injured at the Young Stars pre-season rookie tournament in Penticton, B.C., and spent four weeks rehabbing his foot. Naturally, he was not in peak condition when he returned to the ice. "I took four weeks off and it wasn’t the same for the next month," Lemieux said. "Not being in the greatest of shape coming into the season, having to deal with learning a whole new system, it wasn’t easy. It took time and then finally getting into stride after Christmas and feeling good about my game and where it was (going). Especially on a struggling team, it was hard." He also had zero time to make a training camp impression on Jets head coach Paul Maurice, who was serving as an assistant coach for Team Europe at the World Cup. But Maurice had seen this movie before. "That’s all part of the maturation process," Maurice said. "You know, (defenceman) Josh Morrissey did the exact same thing — he spent a year and put on a lot of weight (and) realized that the speed is No. 1 in importance in the National (Hockey) League. You’ve gotta be able to skate and get there. So he’s leaned down a little bit. I think we have two or three other guys that lifted weights, but that wasn’t the core of what they were doing, putting mass on. So he looks a little bit faster." Lemieux prepped for the AHL grind and realized something unexpected. "(I was) thinking that that’s a heavier, harder league to play in and that I’m going to need that size, that strength and power to be competing.
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