Brendan Lemieux’s professional career begins tonight.
He’ll be in the Manitoba Moose lineup for their AHL game against the Milwaukee Admirals at the MTS Centre.
The left-winger, who just celebrated his 20th birthday, finished his fourth and final junior season when the Ontario Hockey League's Windsor Spitfires were eliminated in the playoffs, but he said after this morning’s skate he’s energized, not tired, near the end of the 2015-16 campaign.
"I’ve barely played in the last month," said Lemieux, the first pick of the second round of the 2014 draft, who was packaged by the Buffalo Sabres to the Jets in the Evander Kane deal a year ago.