{"id":54935,"date":"2019-08-26T12:59:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T16:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=54935"},"modified":"2019-08-26T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:29:48","slug":"report-winnipeg-jets-sign-gabriel-bourque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/08\/26\/report-winnipeg-jets-sign-gabriel-bourque\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets Sign Gabriel Bourque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News broke late Monday morning that the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/jets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> have signed forward <strong>Gabriel Bourque<\/strong> to a one-year, two-way deal worth $700,000. Bourque played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/avalanche\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> in 2018-19. Winnipeg announced the deal via their official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLJets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHLJets<\/a> have agreed to terms with forward Gabriel Bourque on a one-year, two-way contract with an AAV of $700,000 in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Bourque played in his eighth NHL season and his third with Colorado in 2018-19 and had eight points in 55 games.<\/p>\n<p>DETAILS \u27a1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RzRFt9Gb6o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/RzRFt9Gb6o<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yBadQFI3Bx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/yBadQFI3Bx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Winnipeg Jets (@NHLJets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLJets\/status\/1166002410277482497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Winnipeg Jets Sign Gabriel Bourque<\/h2>\n<p>The 5&#8217;10&#8221; Bourque was originally drafted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/predators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nashville Predators<\/a> in the 2009 NHL Draft. He played five seasons with the Preds before joining Colorado for the 2016-17 season. He became a free agent this summer after his third year with the Avs.<\/p>\n<p>Bourque played in 55 games in 2018-19, contributing two goals and eight points while averaging 9:44 of ice time. This was a career-low for Bourque, as he&#8217;d never dropped below 10:54 in any of his previous seasons. His playing time dropped each year with Colorado and he wasn&#8217;t scoring at all like he did with Nashville; 78 of his 97 career points came with the Predators. His best feature at this point is his willingness to check, having posted over 100 hits each of the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Bourque advanced stats are no more impressive than his traditional ones. He sports a career Corsi of just 47.1% and a relative mark of -3.3. Bourque is mostly terrible when it comes to keeping opponents from the puck. He was third-worst on Colorado in terms of possession and the worst of any player that skated in at least 10 games.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means For the Future<\/h3>\n<p>This is purely a move to acquire experienced depth. Bourque doesn&#8217;t have the offensive skills to unseat someone on Winnipeg&#8217;s bottom-six at this point. What he does have is eight years of NHL experience, all in the Central Division. That will get him some ice time if someone else needs a rest. His experience will help educate some of the Jets&#8217; younger players like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/applema01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mason Appleton<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vesalkr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Kristian Vesalainen<\/strong><\/a>. Bourque&#8217;s contract also doesn&#8217;t take up much cap space, which is central to Winnipeg&#8217;s efforts to sign their young stars to new deals.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"c7MBJm_MSsZ4eNSAHxRTyg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1053142786\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'c7MBJm_MSsZ4eNSAHxRTyg',sig:'0dR5LjTdLyBN77H4MTSzWfh0wZx_nxACCoUspiNPags=',w:'594px',h:'422px',items:'1053142786',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News broke late Monday morning that the Winnipeg Jets have signed forward Gabriel Bourque to a one-year, two-way deal worth $700,000. Bourque played for the Colorado Avalanche in 2018-19. Winnipeg announced the deal via their official Twitter account. #NHLJets have agreed to terms with forward Gabriel Bourque on a one-year, two-way contract with an AAV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":54940,"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":[33,34],"tags":[36,3347,933,3651,357],"class_list":["post-54935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jets","category-news","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-gabriel-bourque","tag-kristian-vesalainen","tag-mason-appleton","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"modified_by":"Gabriel Foley","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54935","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\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}