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Towering 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 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 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 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 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, , Jacob Trouba, , 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 of the .

"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 and 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 -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. But look around last year, there wasn’t much of that and I knew that I had to make some adjustments, and I’ve found in doing so, I feel just as strong, but I’m able to get to the puck quicker and make quicker plays."

One part of his game, the physical, agitator type who so closely resembles his dad and former NHLer Claude Lemieux, seems unlikely to change.

"I know I bring something they don’t have a lot of," said Lemieux, who led the Moose with 130 penalty minutes in 61 games. "I’m looking forward to the opportunity to show how that can help, and there’s a lot of teams in the league, especially teams that do well, with guys that bring a similar type of game that I bring. Even more now, with the rule changes, it can help to have a guy like that." https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/hockey/jets/jets-close-out-young-stars-tourney-with- a-win-over-flames-443798003.html

Jets close out Young Stars tourney with a win over Flames

The Winnipeg Jets will leave Penticton, B.C., on a winning note.

A group of Jets prospects defeated a young Flames squad 4-1 Monday afternoon to close out the annual Young Stars Classic hockey tournament.

The Jets finished the tournament with a 1-2 record after earlier losses to and Edmonton.

Promising blue-liner Tucker Poolman played his first game of the tournament for Winnipeg. He is coming off double shoulder surgery during the summer.

Jansen Harkins, 20, drafted in the second round (47th overall) in 2015, fired a pair of goals for Winnipeg, while Cristiano DiGiacinto, who recently finished a terrific junior career with the -champion Windsor Spitfires and was invited to the Jets rookie camp, also scored.

Another camp invitee, Kristian Reichel of the centre, the son of longtime NHL forward Robert Reichel, scored an empty-net goal for the Jets, who trailed 1-0 after 20 minutes but took a 2-1 lead into the final period.

Winnipeg goalie Mikhail Berdin, a sixth-round pick in 2016, didn't have a busy day as his teammates outshot Calgary 35-10.

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Prospects tourney behind them, now they can get serious

BY KEN WIEBE, WINNIPEG SUN

PENCTICTON, B.C. — The Winnipeg Jets took a different approach with their prospect pool this fall.

Instead of taking all of the top guns to Penticton for the 2017 Young Stars Classic, another group of high-end prospects stayed behind in Winnipeg for what was essentially a mini-camp.

The reason behind that decision was two-fold.

First and foremost, the players left behind — guys like Kyle Connor, , , Nelson Nogier and several others — were able to get some individual work in with the Jets coaching staff.

Plus, they’ll have a better idea of the type of things required to compete for an NHL job.

“We wanted to be able to have them get one-on-one with those guys and say look, here’s what I’m looking for you out of training camp and here’s what I need to see, here are some things you need to work on,” Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff said on Monday.

The other piece of the puzzle was to allow the group of first-year pros like Jansen Harkins, Michael Spacek and Mason Appleton to have an opportunity to take on a larger leadership role at the prospect tournament, as they get ready for what will be their first full professional season.

“When you turn players pro into the AHL from junior or college, we wanted these young guys here to see what kind of a step it was going to be,” said Cheveldayoff. “When you get into the AHL environment, it’s going to be tough. There are going to be veteran players and sometimes those young players get lost in the shuffle right away because they don’t get that feel of what it’s going to take.

“This is a big jump. We want you to take charge and be the guys that don’t get lost in the shuffle.”

The Jets wrapped up tournament action Monday afternoon with a 4-1 win over the in a game that saw Harkins score twice.

Defenceman Tucker Poolman has the best chance of any player that suited up for the Jets in the event to compete for an NHL roster spot.

But given that he’s coming off bilateral shoulder surgery, it’s likely Poolman will need some seasoning in the minors with the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League before he makes the jump.

But as Poolman prepares to attend his first NHL training camp, he’s eager to show he’s ready right now.

“It’s just a focus on the details and focus on what the coaches ask,” said Poolman, who signed a one-year, entry-level deal after completing his junior season at the University of North Dakota. “It’s a combination of both (nerves and excitement). As a kid growing up, you want to be in this situation, so it’s exciting. At the same time, you’ve put in so much work that you get a little nervous. It’s going to be fun.”

What’s working against Poolman to a certain degree is that the right side of the Jets defence corps is pretty stacked — with Jacob Trouba, Dustin Byfuglien and Tyler Myers all holding down spots.

Poolman is open to playing the left side and has done it before, so he’s just going to see how things shake down during the coming weeks.

“I played a year in college on the left, so I’m comfortable either way. I’ll do whatever (the Jets) ask,” said Poolman. “The biggest thing transitioning (to the pro game) is being a reliable defender and a guy that has good breakouts. To be a guy that coach can trust to put out there.”

Harkins, meanwhile, is ready for his first pro season and he’s taking a mindset that many young players have.

“I’m just trying to stick around as long as I can,” said Harkins, who was chosen by the Jets in the second round (47th overall) of the 2015 NHL Draft. “I think every year, I’ve gotten a little better at camp. That’s from getting a little more experience and a little more confidence.”

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Scheifele of Jets aims to be among NHL's elite Center believes he can be mentioned in same conversation as Crosby, McDavid by Nicholas J. Cotsonika @cotsonika / NHL.com Columnist

Six players finished ahead of Winnipeg Jets center in scoring last season. These were their names: Connor McDavid, Sidney Crosby, Patrick Kane, Nicklas Backstrom, Nikita Kucherov and Brad Marchand.

Pretty good, eh?

"Could have been better," Scheifele said with a laugh.

Wait. What?

Better?

"Oh, yeah," Scheifele said. "There's no doubt in my mind. In this sport, you can't say, 'Oh, you know, that was great. I just hope to stay amongst them.' I'm pushing to be better than Connor, better than Sid."

Whoa.

Better than McDavid? Better than Crosby?

In pixels, that might look cocky. But in an interview at the NHL Player Media Tour at the League offices last week, it sounded more like confident, committed, uncompromising. This is a guy Jets coach Paul Maurice said will be the team someday, and the more you listen, the more you understand why.

"Obviously they're pretty lofty goals," Scheifele said. "Those guys are special players. They work unbelievably hard at their game. But at one time last year, I was top in the League in scoring."

Scheifele, 24, led the NHL in scoring as late as Nov. 21. He had played 21 games, a quarter of the season.

"In my mind, I see it as, if I stay more consistent, there's no reason why I can't stay there," Scheifele said. "I've just got to continue to push. I've got some great linemates, which helps me. We've got a great [defense] corps behind us. I'm going to continue to push to be the best and not just be mentioned in that company, but be at the very top."

It isn't that Scheifele doesn't respect the competition; it's that he does. He called Crosby the best player in the world. Without prompting, he brought up Crosby's all-round game and work ethic. He made the end goal clear.

"It's about getting your team into the and trying to win a ," Scheifele said. "That's why I try to get better and I hope every guy on the team is trying to get better."

After the Jets missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs last season, Scheifele played for Canada at the IIHF World Championship. He returned home to the Toronto area and was on the ice the next day. He spent the offseason working on conditioning with Gary Roberts and skills with Adam Oates.

Scheifele and Oates, a member of the and former NHL coach who now tutors individuals, would watch a Jets game and go over each play Scheifele made. What was he thinking? What where the possibilities? Could he have executed those possibilities? If not, why not? Did he take the wrong angle? Where his hands in the right spot? Was his footwork right? Then they would take that to the ice.

"If you think about a shortstop in baseball, every single pitch, the guy's ready to react to when the bat hits the ball," Oates said in a telephone interview. "Well, we're doing the same thing within our game. The shortstop can move in any direction if it's a foul ball, if it's hit right to him, if it's a grounder, short hop, easy hop, bad hop. In hockey, we have our version of that. Sometimes the puck's bouncing; sometimes it's flat. Sometimes it's against the boards; sometimes it's off the boards. And the better you get at all the possibilities, the better you become."

Oates said it was his job to make it "not quite so boring every day." But Scheifele is the type of guy who studies hockey to fight boredom. He finds it interesting, entertaining.

"I've got all my games on my iPad," Scheifele said. "At any given time, I can check it out. If I get bored one day and I'm just sitting on the couch and it's raining outside, I'll throw on a game and just watch for fun, see some things. I love it.

"It's not always a toe drag or a saucer pass. It's little things: a chip, a chip in the neutral zone, a chip behind the net in your own end, a simple pass that you need to make every single time in the offensive zone that maybe you struggle with. Whatever it is, there's parts of the game that need to be refined, and that's something that I try to work on."

Scheifele has increased his goals (13, 15, 29, 32) and points (34, 49, 61, 82) each season in the NHL. He had 82 points in 79 games last season even though he had 15 points on the power play. No one above him in scoring had fewer than 24. No one else in the top 24 in scoring had as few.

"I feel he has the capability to keep growing, and I'm not sure I would say that about every guy," Oates said. "I think he's got the brain power to do it for sure. I think he's got it all. That's who he is."

Why settle for less than the best?

"We've all been the best on our teams growing up," Scheifele said. "We've all been the best players in junior. So we all come here, we all want to be the best in the League. We don't want to be second fiddle to those guys, and that's why we work on our game. That's why we try to innovate the game, to get that edge on Sid, on Connor. That's what I try to do each and every day. I'm not going to stop until I'm there."

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Winnipeg Jets prospects looking to take next step in hockey careers

By Mitch Rosset Reporter/Anchor

To be successful, a hockey team needs its players to work together even if making it means facing off against each other.

“It’s going to be tough at training camp,” Winnipeg Jets forward Jack Roslovic said. “There’s a lot of new players and they all want to do the same thing I want to.”

Landing a spot with the Jets this year will be even harder. On top of a healthy stock of veterans, the squad’s youngins are also coming of age.

“I thought I had a productive first year of pro,” forward Kyle Connor said.

“I learned a lot and think it’s something I can build on coming into this year.” Connor was among the handful who got a taste of the NHL last season. The 2015 first-round pick registered two goals and three assists in 20 games with the Jets along with 44 points in 52 AHL games.

“It was nice to do all that good work when I was with the Manitoba Moose, get that reward and called up,” Connor said.

Play that caught the attention of more than just the organization’s brass. Those usually on the bubble know it will be tough to outperform prospects when training camp starts on Friday.

“I just have to keep working hard obviously,” defenceman Julian Melchiori said. “Everyone is a great player out there so you still have to work your hardest and do your best.”

But more importantly, be prepared to fight right from day one.

“We’ve just gone through two years of really letting some players develop in the NHL,” Jets head coach Paul Maurice said. “In some ways, that window is closing a little bit.”

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Why 2017-18 is a ‘prove it’ year for the Winnipeg Jets

By Tape to Tape

Is there a harder team to project in the NHL than the Winnipeg Jets?

Despite their promising youth, scoring power, blue line depth and focused off-season acquisitions, the playoff outlook for Winnipeg is murky. When they made it two years ago and were swept by the Anaheim Ducks, it was seen as the start of something that we now look back on and wonder why it wasn’t. One of those subsequent years was so bad they were able to get Patrik Laine second overall at the draft — a pick that has only heightened expectations.

After two consecutive misses, those expectations are maturing along with the roster. The city, which has been patient since the team landed from Atlanta, is now looking for it to pay off.

“The fans are expecting playoffs,” Sportsnet’s Sean Reynolds said on the Tape to Tape podcast last week. “The players are expecting playoffs. Pretty much everyone in this town knows this is the year they’re going to need to get things done. There’s no more excuses.”

Speaking last week, owner Mark Chipman said when they originally acquired the team and put it in Winnipeg that it was a “distressed asset”, business speak that can be translated into hockey talk as “we’re going to go through a rebuild.”

Mark Scheifele, Nik Ehlers and Laine are all now top line producers. There’s still hope Jacob Trouba is going to be a top pair defender and Josh Morrissey, after a strong rookie season, has cemented his place in this future. Along with that youth, a number of Thrashers holdovers remain, including Dustin Byfuglien, Blake Wheeler and .

The bottom-up rebuild is over and enough pieces are in place. Soon enough there are going to be very few impact players on cheap deals left on the roster. If the Jets don’t take the leap before entry-level contracts expire for Ehlers (after this season), Laine (after next season), Morrissey (after this season) and before Trouba gets his second post-ELC deal after this season, we’ll have an unproven team facing tough cap choices.

Most top NHL teams start showing their potential in the standings before those cheap deals run out.

“Things are going to change really quickly,” Reynolds said. “If they’re going to lock in a lot of their players long term you want to know that group can win and because a lot of guys are going to need to be paid after this year it would make Cheveldayoff’s job a lot easier if this group showed this year that yes they can get it done, they can make the playoffs.”

This is what made last week’s contract extensions to GM Kevin Cheveldayoff and head coach Paul Maurice so confusing. An NHL coach who has two playoff appearances in his past 10 completed seasons, Maurice is credited by ownership for how he’s overseen the development of the youngsters. The contract extension suggests that Maurice could be safe for at least this season and the start of next, but since he would have come in to 2017-18 on any “coaches on the hot seat” list, we have to wonder what would happen if the Jets fail to pull through again.

“Before they had signed him to an extension I would have thought if the Jets stumbled out of the gate and were one of those teams sitting out of the playoff picture at American Thanksgiving I would have expected he’d be gone,” Reynolds noted. “This entire town is expecting them to make the playoffs.”

It’s fair to say Jets fans have been content to take the wait and see approach, especially when you look around the league and see other rebuilders from Toronto and Edmonton start paying off with wins. But there is enough here now to start expecting the same returns.

This season will go along way towards determining whether or not this group is worth all the patience.

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Cheveldayoff: I want to see young players take the next step

Winnipeg Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff joins Paul Edmonds and Brian Munz in the broadcast booth during the Jets YoungStars game. They discuss the Jets YoungStars roster and the upcoming training camp.

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Harkins' two goals leads Jets over Flames in Young Stars finale by Ryan Dittrick @ryandittrick / WinnipegJets.com

PENTICTON, B.C. - The Winnipeg Jets prospects had the game their head coach was hoping for on the final day of the 2017 Young Stars Classic.

They were fast, physical and determined to get pucks on net, which had been a sore spot for the blue squad in the opening two games of the tournament.

Not today.

The Jets fired 34 shots and allowed only 10 as they cruised to a 4-1 win over the Calgary Flames at the South Okanagan Events Centre.

Jansen Harkins led the way with a two-goal game, while Cristiano DiGiacinto and Kristian Reichel had a goal apiece to round things out offensively.

Mikhail Berdin stopped nine of the 10 shots he faced

"I liked the progression of the team," Moose coach Pascal Vincent said. "If you look at the first period of the first game and the third game, that's a different team. The guys were paying attention to the details that we were talking about. They wanted to showcase themselves. It's about getting better and showing that you really want to be a Jet in the future.

"As a team, we all played well today."

For the third time in three games, the Jets allowed the opening goal as 2016 second-round pick Dillon Dube walked in off the right circle and fired a far side after linemate Glenn Gawdin won a battle and drew three defenders in front of the net to give the Flames an early 1-0 lead.

It was all Winnipeg from that point forward.

The Jets evened the score less than five minutes into the second period. Harkins did some great work to free the puck from the near corner before getting it back to the point for Jake Kulevich, who hammered a shot on goal. DiGiacinto was quick to the rebound, bunting it home from the lip of the blue paint to make it a 1-1 game.

"(Having) one practice before a game, it's tough when you're pulling guys from all over," DiGiacinto said of the team's early struggles. "At lunch you're sitting with different guys and over time, guys get a lot more comfortable with each other. It all starts off the ice. When guys start hanging out and start getting a feel for each other, and in practices when you're getting touches and are getting a sense for each others' speed and tendencies, it's a huge advantage to have those extra skates and work on the timing of everything."

DiGiacinto, who was one of a handful of invites at rookie camp, is now hoping to attend either Jets or Moose main camp to try and earn a pro contract.

Over the past three years, the 21-year-old has attended main camp with the Tampa Bay Lighting twice, and rookie camp with the once.

"The biggest thing I feel is trying to make that jump to pro," he said. "I've been to a few camps now and I know what it's like at these rookie tournaments. Now it's the big jump to hopefully get an invite to main camp and show them that I'm really to make the jump to pro. … It was an awesome weekend."

Harkins put the Jets on top with 8:45 to play in the period as he took the puck down the far side, partially avoided the 6-foot-3, 205-pound defender, Kayle Doetzel, and drove a quick shot over the glove hand of Flames goalie Mason McDonald.

"We just stuck to the plan the coaches gave us," Harkins said. "The whole weekend we were trying to implement new systems every game. We watched a lot of video after each game and were trying to get better at some systematic things with what the Jets and Moose have been using the past few years."

The Jets were in full control, leading the Flames 22-6 on the shot clock through two periods of play.

The Jets opened up a two-goal lead at 5:37 of the third. Logan Stanley showed great vision and made a terrific backdoor pass to find Harkins at the side of the net, and while his initial try was turned aside in tight, No. 58 stuck with it and chopped it home from a sharp angle to score his second of the night and third of the tournament.

Harkins, who played the first two games at centre, was put on his off wing for today's game.

"He scored two goals, yes, but the way that he was able to break the puck out on his off side, the way he was using his stick to counter-pinch and be in a good position moving the puck [was strong]," Vincent said. "I liked his game on the wing."

Added Harkins: "I thought I was skating pretty well all weekend. I noticed that chances were opening up because I'm feeling strong and fresh.

"I just wanted to come, have some fun and make some plays. … I think I showed what I can do. I got a couple good chances and was able to bear down and bury them."

Reichel scored into the empty net with 21 seconds left to salt away the victory.

LATE HITS: Defenceman Luke Green left the game late in the first period and did not return with an upper-body injury. https://www.nhl.com/jets/video/postgame--pascal-vincent/t-277437442/c-52611003

POSTGAME | Pascal Vincent

Coach Pascal Vincent dissects the Jets' 4-1 win over the Flames https://www.nhl.com/jets/video/postgame--cristiano-digiacinto/t-277437442/c-52610703

POSTGAME | Cristiano DiGiacinto

Cristiano DiGiacinto talks about his goal in a 4-1 win over the Flames to close out the Young Stars Classic https://www.nhl.com/jets/video/postgame--jansen-harkins/t-277437442/c-52610803

POSTGAME | Jansen Harkins

Jansen Harkins talks about his three-point day that led the Jets to a 4-1 win https://www.nhl.com/jets/video/postgame--tucker-poolman/t-277437442/c-52611103

POSTGAME | Tucker Poolman

Tucker Poolman reflects on his first game back after bilateral shoulder surgery https://www.nhl.com/jets/video/rookie-camp--jack-roslovic/t-277437442/c-52608303

ROOKIE CAMP | Jack Roslovic

Jack Roslovic chats about his offseason and the upcoming training camp https://www.nhl.com/jets/video/rookie-camp--julian-melchiori/t-277437442/c-52609103

ROOKIE CAMP | Julian Melchiori

Julian Melchiori reflects on his summer and discusses this weekend's rookie camp https://www.nhl.com/jets/video/rookie-camp--paul-maurice/t-277437442/c-52610303

ROOKIE CAMP | Paul Maurice

Winnipeg Jets Head Coach Paul Maurice chats about rookie camp and his approach with younger players