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VANCOUVER — It appears the NHL schedule-maker has a flair for the dramatic.
How’s this for starting the new season with a splash? The Winnipeg Jets will open the 2019-20 campaign at Madison Square Garden, facing Jacob Trouba, Brendan Lemieux and the rest of the New York Rangers. The Oct. 3 game will mark the home opener for the Broadway Blueshirts, who acquired the two former Jets in a pair of separate trades.
It will also mark a homecoming for the newest Jets defenceman, Neal Pionk, who travelled the other way last week in the Trouba swap.
Winnipeg will continue the road trip the following night, Oct. 4, by invading Newark to take on the New Jersey Devils in their home opener.
It’s likely the Jets will play one more game in the New York area following the initial back-to-back — a date with the Islanders would seem a likely bet — before returning north of the border for their own home opener, set for Oct. 10, when the Minnesota Wild visit Bell MTS Place.
The Rangers, Devils and Wild dates are the only known thus far, as the NHL released just the home openers for all 31 teams Friday. The complete, 82-game regular-season schedule will be unveiled Tuesday.
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On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop.
Mike McIntyre is a sports reporter whose primary role is covering the Winnipeg Jets. After graduating from the Creative Communications program at Red River College in 1995, he spent two years gaining experience at the Winnipeg Sun before joining the Free Press in 1997, where he served on the crime and justice beat until 2016. Read more about Mike.
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Mike McIntyre is a sports reporter whose primary role is covering the Winnipeg Jets. After graduating from the Creative Communications program at Red River College in 1995, he spent two years gaining experience at the Winnipeg Sun before joining the Free Press in 1997, where he served on the crime and justice beat until 2016. Read more about Mike.
Every piece of reporting Mike produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press’s history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.
Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber.
Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
