Winnipeg Jets add 6 players on Day 2 of NHL Entry Draft - BERITAJA

A time aft selecting 18-year-old Swedish centre Viggo Bjork pinch the eighth wide prime of the 2026 NHL Entry Draft successful Buffalo, the Winnipeg Jets further stocked their organizational extent floor plan pinch the summation of six selections connected Saturday Afternoon.

Following the completion of the draft, Jets Director of Amateur Scouting Mark Hillier could not person been much nonstop successful his appraisal of Bjorck.

“I person to beryllium honest, he’s 1 of the about breathtaking draught picks I’ve ever had. I deliberation he’s 1 of the smartest players successful the draught this year, he’s 1 of the smartest players I’ve scouted,” Hillier told members of the media.

“If he signs, he’s fixed an opportunity — he’s going to make it existent difficult not to play.”

Winnipeg did not person a prime successful the 2nd information arsenic a consequence of a 2025 deadline woody pinch the Pittsburgh Penguins for defenceman Luke Schenn. With the 71st wide prime successful the 3rd round, the Jets drafted 18-year-old Slovakian-born Goalie Samuel Hrenek who spent this past play playing for the Fargo Force of the USHL.

Hrenek did not hide his sheer joyousness complete being taken by the Jets erstwhile he said pinch reporters.

“Just successful general, we had a awesome talk about a batch of things and I conscionable felt the about liking from Winnipeg,” said Hrenek, whose older relative David — besides a goaltender — was a fifth-round prime of the Los Angeles Kings successful 2018.

“I’m excited to show the statement what’s successful maine and why they made the correct choice.”

Hrenek started successful 9 games for the Force successful 2025-26 and posted a 2.20 goals against mean pinch a .918 saves percent and a 7-1-1 record.

In Round Four, Winnipeg took Apple Valley, Minnesota autochthonal Zach Wooten pinch the 116th pick. The left-winger turned 20 successful February and scored 35 goals to spell on pinch 27 assists for 62 points successful 61 games for the USHL’s Green Bay Gamblers.

Wooten  earned an induce to play successful the Chipotle All-American Game — an yearly arena showcasing the apical NHL draft-eligible players successful the USHL during the league’s vacation break.

“It was awesome for me. It was thing I didn’t needfully expect; it’s my 3rd twelvemonth of draught eligibility truthful it was beautiful unexpected erstwhile I sewage that telephone from my coach,” said Wooten, who is going to proceed his improvement pinch the University of Wisconsin this coming season.

The Jets drafted Quebec Remparts defenceman Alexandre Taillefer pinch the 135th prime of the draught successful Round Five. The left-shot rear defender from Richelieu, Que., made the six-hour-plus thrust to Buffalo pinch his family to acquisition the draught unrecorded and says location was immoderate worry building earlier proceeding his sanction called.

“Yeah, I was decidedly tense a bit. I deliberation the determination was I had a bully chance to beryllium drafted and it’s not truthful acold from home,” explained Taillefer. “I’m a two-way defenceman, a move subordinate — I for illustration to make the first walk and plays and worldly and I emotion to beryllium physical, too.”

Taillefer played successful only 28 games for the Remparts aft suffering an Achilles injury, but Hillier feels location is simply a batch of upside to beryllium tapped into for what he described arsenic an absorbing prospect.

“He’s a move skater that we consciousness is 1 of the champion skating defencemen successful the draft,” Hillier said, saying the scheme is for Taillefer to return to Quebec adjacent twelvemonth and play a afloat season.

In the sixth information the Jets took Alaska-born centre Landon Hafele, who was a teammate of Wooten pinch Green Bay. The 18-year-old pivot scored 15 goals and added 27 assists for 42 points successful 52 games for the Gamblers. Hafele has committed to the Arizona State Wildcats.

Winnipeg had 2 selections successful the seventh and last information and went for 18-year-old defenceman Noa Ta’Amu of the Edmonton Oil Kings (199th) and 20-year-old Goalie John Parsons of Providence College (220th). Ta’Amu scored 3 goals and added 9 assists for 12 points successful 63 games pinch the Oil Kings, while Parsons was 13-5 pinch a 2.05 GAA and .922 SP successful 19 starts for the Friars.

The San Diego-born Ta’Amu helped the United States triumph the U18 Gretzky-Hlinka Cup successful 2025 and is the first subordinate of Samoan descent to ever beryllium drafted by an NHL team. His begetter Ed was a fourth-round prime of Minnesota successful the 2002 NFL draught and was an violative lineman for the Vikings and Houston Texans.

Hillier says the Jets didn’t cognize a full batch about Noa astatine the commencement of the twelvemonth but for illustration his “old school” attack to playing the game. “He’s not acrophobic to driblet the gloves and scrap. Stay astatine location D and play hard.”

Most, if not each of the players selected by the Jets successful the 2026 draught are expected to be the team’s improvement campy adjacent week astatine Winnipeg’s Hockey For All Centre.