{"id":418951,"date":"2026-01-21T01:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/418951\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:57:17","slug":"winnipeg-jets-reveal-preliminary-rosters-for-heritage-classic-alumni-game-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/418951\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets reveal preliminary rosters for Heritage Classic alumni game &#8211; Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Big Buff will be back in a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/winnipeg-jets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> uniform in October.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Jets unveiled plans for an alumni game and released a preliminary roster for the event to be held in conjunction with the 2026 Heritage Classic against the Montreal Canadiens at Princess Auto Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Former Jets captain Blake Wheeler and Winnipeg\u2019s Mike Keane will serve as the team captains and play in the game. Unlike the last alumni game at the 2016 Heritage Classic that featured only original Jets players, this preliminary roster is solely former Jets 2.0 players.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets roster also includes Dustin Byfuglien, Andrew Ladd, Bryan Little, Mathieu Perreault, Paul Stastny, and fan favourite Chris Thorburn.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s cool about it is most of us are still, well, we all are still young people,\u201d said Wheeler. \u201cSo hopefully the product will still be OK. Who knows how much of us have really been skating over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Winnipegger Dale Weise, Paul Byron, David Desharnais, Patrice Brisebois, and David Savard will all suit for the Habs alumni team.<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler would like to see the old Ladd-Little-Wheeler line from 2011 reunited in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know who is coaching the team,\u201d said Wheeler. \u201cBut I\u2019d think that\u2019s got to be a good line to put together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11619698\/2026-hottest-year-prediction-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Canada-heat-wave-2026.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t2026 set to be one of the hottest years on record, Canadian forecast says\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11620877\/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CP175653730-e1768927793200.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRead the full transcript of Carney\u2019s speech to World Economic Forum\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just like in 2016, the alumni game will be played the day before the big game on Saturday, Oct. 24 at Princess Auto Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'RAW: Winnipeg Jets Blake Wheeler Interview \u2013 Jan. 20'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JETS_WHEELER_WEB.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t4:54<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRAW: Winnipeg Jets Blake Wheeler Interview \u2013 Jan. 20\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Big Buff will be back in a Winnipeg Jets uniform&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5121],"tags":[5,78,4,43,77,18,387,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-418951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-winnipeg","13":"tag-winnipeg-jets","14":"tag-winnipeg-sports","15":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115930611888139191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}