Desperate Winnipeg Jets deal for Hurricanes’ Jay Harrison
“Decimated” might be putting it kindly.
The Winnipeg Jets currently have their top four defensemen out of their lineup, at least through mid-January. Tobias Enstrom and Zach Bogosian are out with lower body injuries, and won’t be back until next month. Jacob Trouba is out until February with an upper body injury. Ditto Mark Stuart with a lower body injury.
That’s four of the team’s five leaders in ice time, and their top four penalty killers by ice time.
Ouch.
Pressed to make a move, GM Kevin Cheveldayoff did what he does best: Acquire a body without giving up one.
The Jets snagged Jay Harrison from the Carolina Hurricanes for a sixth-round pick in 2015 which previously belonge to Ottawa.
The 32-year-old defenseman has four points and a minus-5 in 20 games this season. He’s been a healthy scratch on multiple occasions for the basement-dwelling Hurricanes.
Harrison carries a $1.5 million cap hit through 2016.
Maurice knows him well, having coached him with the Toronto Maple Leafs and with the Carolina Hurricanes.
He’s not addition, bringing some leadership and being a geniunely good guy in the room. But with Harrison, Dustin Byfuglien, Julien Brouillette, Grant Clitsome, Ben Chiarot, Adam Pardy and Paul Postma as the blue line for the time being … well, pray for Pavelec and Hutchinson.
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