{"id":35248,"date":"2018-09-06T11:50:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=35248"},"modified":"2018-09-06T11:50:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:50:29","slug":"winnipeg-jets-re-sign-rfa-eric-comrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/09\/06\/winnipeg-jets-re-sign-rfa-eric-comrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets Re-Sign RFA Eric Comrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/jets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a>\u00a0re-signed RFA goaltender<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/comrier01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Comrie<\/a><\/strong> to a one-year, two-way deal worth $ 650,000 at the NHL Level, $175,000 guaranteed. This deal carries him through the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<h1>Jets Re-Sign RFA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/comrier01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Comrie<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>Comrie, who was drafted 59th overall in the 2013 NHL Draft has spent his career splitting time between the Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba\u00a0Moose. He is 2-2 with a 4.00 GAA and .880% save percentage in four career NHL games. Comrie is 52-67-12 in 136 career AHL games. He also has six career shutouts in the AHL.<\/p>\n<p>Comrie spent most of last year playing in the AHL with the Manitoba Moose. He went 18-13-3 with a 2.58 GAA. He also recorded two shutouts and recorded an assist. Comrie is coming off a three-year entry-level contract with the Jets that he signed in December 2013.<\/p>\n<h1>More Ice Time For Comrie Is Likely<\/h1>\n<p>With <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hutchmi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Hutchinson<\/a><\/strong> getting signed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida Panthers<\/a> in the offseason this gives Comrie a chance to get more playing time with the Jets.\u00a0Comrie will be fighting with<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/brossla01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laurent Brossoit<\/a><\/strong> for the Jets backup position\u00a0in training camp. If Comrie doesn&#8217;t win the backup job he will be the Jets third string and the starter in Manitoba. According to Last Word On Hockey&#8217;s Ben Kerr, Comrie&#8217;s game has been getting stronger in the AHL. Kerr&#8217;s full report on Comrie can be found on The<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2018\/08\/17\/winnipeg-jets-prospects\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Winnipeg Jets Top Prospects<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Defencemen <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/morrijo04.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Morrissey<\/a><\/strong> is the last remaining unsigned RFA for the Winnipeg Jets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/666069576\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.66667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/666069576?et=36VWdsBMQxt4JGzRiWYZrw&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=iUx1FfMuM8TbljaRRG4ySIQs3sl1V5dfxFYnawwieLQ=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winnipeg Jets\u00a0re-signed RFA goaltender Eric Comrie to a one-year, two-way deal worth $ 650,000 at the NHL Level, $175,000 guaranteed. This deal carries him through the 2018-19 season. Jets Re-Sign RFA Eric Comrie Comrie, who was drafted 59th overall in the 2013 NHL Draft has spent his career splitting time between the Winnipeg Jets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":35255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,33],"tags":[642,2382,955,357],"class_list":["post-35248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-jets","tag-eric-comrie","tag-laurent-brossoit","tag-nhl-news","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"modified_by":"Daniel Brown, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}