On the eve of his second training camp, Rick Bowness told reporters Wednesday that he spoke to players over the summer about comments made after the team was eliminated in its first-round playoff series against the Vegas Golden Knights.
Sep 21, 2023 at 07:19 AM ETWINNIPEG — Rick Bowness has moved on from being criticized by some Winnipeg Jets at the end of his first season as head coach.
"As soon as we were challenging for first place and teams were coming after us, we had no pushback," he said at the time."This series we had no pushback. Their better players were so much better than ours, it's not even close." Asked for his take, goalie Connor Hellebuyck had replied,"Yeah, he said it perfectly," referring to Wheeler sitting beside him.
Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff also talked to reporters Wednesday and said he doesn’t think there is any negativity lingering in the players’ relationships with Bowness. The Jets had sat atop the Western Conference in mid-January last season before starting a slide. They only grabbed the second wild-card spot in Game 81 and finished 46-33-3.
There will be some battles at camp in Winnipeg’s forward group with the departure of Wheeler, as well as the trade of second-line centre Pierre-Luc Dubois to the Los Angeles Kings for forwards Gabriel Vilardi, Alex Iafollo and Rasmus Kupari.
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