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The Winnipeg Jets introduced Friday morning that they’ve recalled ahead Brayden Yager from the Lethbridge Hurricanes of the Western Hockey League (WHL).
TRANSACTION: The #NHLJets have recalled ahead Brayden Yager from the Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL).
— Winnipeg Jets PR (@WpgJetsPR) Might 2, 2025
Yager’s season within the WHL got here to a detailed Thursday evening, because the Hurricanes had been swept out of the Japanese Convention Closing by the Medication Hat Tigers following a 5–2 loss in Sport 4. With Lethbridge’s playoff run now over, Yager turns into eligible to affix the Jets group for the rest of their season.
The 19-year-old from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, had a powerful junior marketing campaign cut up between the Moose Jaw Warriors and Lethbridge. He opened the 2024–25 season in Moose Jaw, tallying 30 factors (11 objectives, 19 assists) in simply 21 video games. After being dealt to the Hurricanes in December, Yager continued his sturdy play, including 52 factors (14 objectives, 38 assists) in 33 regular-season video games. He adopted that up with 14 factors (eight objectives, six assists) throughout 16 playoff appearances.
Yager additionally represented Canada on the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship, the place he recorded three assists in 5 video games.
Initially chosen 14th total by the Pittsburgh Penguins within the 2023 NHL Draft, Yager’s NHL rights had been traded to the Winnipeg Jets in August 2024 in a one-for-one deal that despatched fellow prospect Rutger McGroarty to Pittsburgh. Previous to the commerce, Yager had signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Penguins.
Though Yager gained’t be a part of the Jets instantly of their first-round playoff collection in opposition to the St. Louis Blues, he’s at the moment working towards with the crew’s taxi squad on the Hockey For All Centre. That group contains forwards Parker Ford, Mason Shaw, Axel Jonsson-Fjallby, and Brad Lambert, in addition to defencemen Elias Salomonsson, Dylan Coghlan, and Isaak Phillips. Ford, who had been rehabbing an damage, is reportedly wholesome and may very well be an possibility as an additional ahead.
Sport 6 between the Jets and Blues is about for tonight at 7:00 p.m. CT and will likely be broadcast on SNW.
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