Winnipeg Jets’ goal-scoring leader Kyle Connor was the latest member of the team this week to field questions from the media via a video conference call.
The fourth-year forward was at his summer home in Michigan and was asked to recall the evening of March 11 in Edmonton — the last game the Jets played prior to the NHL suspending the season as a result of the novel coronavirus. “It was a weird time — everything happened so fast,” Connor said about that night. “I mean, the first period went by and that’s when everything started escalating.
I found out from one of our trainers and a couple of teammates. Everybody in the locker room was pretty aware of what was going on with the NBA.