PENTICTON, B.C. — Jimmy Roy is a travelling man.
He spends most of the hockey season on the road as the director of player development for the Winnipeg Jets, and it’s his job to know what and how the NHL club’s prospects are doing, wherever they might be.
One of the club’s most recent draft choices, Russian goalie Mikhail Berdin, who stopped 23 shots in Monday’s 4-1 loss to the Edmonton Oilers in Winnipeg’s final game at the Young Stars Classic NHL rookie tournament, is a special case.
The 18-year-old Berdin, who does not speak English, is expected to end up with the USJHL’s Sioux Falls Stampede this fall.