The moment was just part of an afternoon at the friendly confines of Wrigley Field for the Jets, who had an off-day following a 4-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche the night before.<\/p>\n
The whole team was in attendance at the game, walked the field after the final out was recorded, and went for dinner afterward to wrap up a memorable day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t had any time to do things together as a team. It\u2019s been game, travel, game, off day, whatever it is, it\u2019s just been that type of year with the amount of games and the volume we\u2019ve had,\u201d said DeMelo. \u201cEverything about the whole day, just hanging out and going for dinner with the guys, that\u2019s the fun stuff about this league. You get to hang out with your teammates, get to know them, share some laughs, and share some memories.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was one more memory to be made for the Jets, especially for goaltender Connor Hellebuyck and Kyle Connor.<\/p>\n
Both were members of the USA Olympic team that won gold in men\u2019s hockey at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milano Cortina. They were shown on the video board in the fourth inning, leading to another ovation at the ballpark.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s incredible. It\u2019s really cool to see,\u201d said Scheifele. \u201cI think we really saw it when we were in San Jose. There are people, I don\u2019t know if they knew anything about hockey but they knew Connor Hellebuyck, which is really cool, to see how much the Olympics did for the game of hockey. So to see the warm welcome he gets around the league is really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The moment was just part of an afternoon at the friendly confines of Wrigley Field for the Jets,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5121],"tags":[5,78,4,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-531481","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-winnipeg","12":"tag-winnipeg-jets","13":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116319686990997749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531481","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=531481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}