The plan was to spend another day or two in Minneapolis before continuing with their three-game road trip in Los Angeles, but those arrangements all changed in the hours following their humiliating 15-2 loss to the North Stars on November 11, 1981.
Winnipeg Jets head coach Tom Watt called it an “avalanche.” For Thomas Steen, playing in only his 14th NHL game “it was one of those nights where a young team didn’t realize what was coming.” Paul MacLean was more succinct.
The Winnipeg Goldeyes made multiple moves Tuesday by exercising the 2021 options on 11 players.
In the Canadian Football League, legends are created in the fall when those hot days and soothing summer breezes have been replaced by lowering temperatures and bitterly cold winds.
In the Canadian Football League, Labour Day weekend is commonly viewed as the unofficial start of the season despite the fact it’s the midway point for most teams.
The Winnipeg Jets have re-signed defenceman Dylan DeMelo on a four-year contract with an average annual value of $3,000,000 USD.
WINNIPEG — The radio home of the Winnipeg Jets is now 680 CJOB as part of a multi-year licensing deal.
Winnipeg Jets netminder Connor Hellebuyck has been named the league’s goalie of the year by winning the Vezina Trophy.
WINNIPEG — Assiniboia Downs set record after record for wagering handles this summer and the people who run the local thoroughbred track have decided to go with the flow.
WINNIPEG — On a night when two-year-old Manitoba-bred sensation Melisandre remained undefeated, the final race of the 2020 Assiniboia Downs thoroughbred season came complete with the most fitting of endings.
WINNIPEG — Ring the bell for Antonio Whitehall. Whitehall, the 26-year-old Barbadian jockey who made it a point to arrive in Winnipeg before the world coronavirus pandemic shut down world travel, has won now 100 races this summer.
WINNIPEG — By 10:45 p.m. Tuesday, another thoroughbred racing season in Manitoba will be over.
