When Joe Morrow was acquired from the Montreal Canadiens for a fourth-round draft pick at this year’s trade deadline, I had this to say:



“In a best case scenario, Winnipeg begins the playoffs with its defence at full health and never looks back. Jacob Trouba and Josh Morrissey return to their role as the Jets de facto number one pair, Byfuglien and Enstrom continue their strong seasons, and Tyler Myers and Dmitry Kulikov return to the 5-6 slots where they’ve seen the most success.



In a more realistic world, at least one of Morrow, Chiarot, and Poolman will get in some games.”



How naïve we all were, then!



On Friday at Bell MTS Place, when the Winnipeg Jets have the opportunity to close out the Wild for Winnipeg’s first playoff series win since April 16, 1987, they are going to be severely understaffed.



UPDATE:



Toby Enstrom skated on his own today but is still not close to playing. Dimitry Kulikov...