It wasn’t the debut everyone in town has been waiting for.
That will have to wait for tonight , when Patrik Laine is expected to make the most-anticipated professional hockey debut since Teemu Selanne first set foot on the ice at the old Winnipeg Arena in 1992.
But if Kyle Connor’s pro debut Thursday for the Winnipeg Jets was just an appetizer for the main course still to come, it was a heck of a tasty one.
A first-round pick in 2015, Connor made his NHL debut a memorable one, snapping a one-timer past Minnesota Wild netminder Darcy Kuemper 15 minutes into the second period for what ultimately stood up as the game-winning goal in a 4-1 Jets victory.