But the topic du jour in the Winnipeg Jets locker-room on Tuesday was a man who wasn’t there, and hasn’t been all season: defenceman Dustin Byfuglien. So, yeah, it’s disappointing.”It was on the eve of training camp that Byfuglien told the Jets he wasn’t playing this season, and team brass suspended him without pay. By late October, and not under the purview of the Jets, Byfuglien had surgery to repair his ankle, possibly related to one of the injuries that had slowed him last season. A TSN report this week said the Jets and Byfuglien were working towards the termination of his contract, which has this season and next remaining. “I would wait until something happens before I wrote too many stories about what might happen,” the Jets head coach said.

Source: National Post February 04, 2020 18:56 UTC