The puck formally dropped on the 2025-26 NHL season on Tuesday, however the Winnipeg Jets nonetheless had some enterprise to deal with earlier than their first recreation on Thursday evening.
With stress to maintain their core collectively, the Jets signed ahead Kyle Connor, 28, to an eight-year, $96 million extension. This deal will maintain the NHL veteran in Winnipeg nicely into his late 30s.
Kyle Connor is a key piece to Jets’ rise
Whereas Connor is probably not a family identify to some followers exterior of Winnipeg, he is been important to the rise of the Jets lately and has even established himself as one of many league’s high scorers.
Connor, a two-time All-Star and former first-round choose, is coming off a 2024-25 season that noticed him end seventh within the NHL in complete factors with 97. He scored 41 goals and had 56 assists for a Jets crew that received the Presidents’ Trophy.
