Jets 2021-22 Season Player Profile: Jansen Harkins

Another year has come and gone for the Winnipeg Jets, where the veterans got to play major minutes and the younger players were relegated to 10 minutes or less of ice-time per night. Forward Jansen Harkins was yet another victim of this situation while being coached by Paul Maurice and later Dave Lowry. Harkins is a member of the infamously great 2015 NHL Draft class, where he was selected in the second round. He played in the WHL, ECHL and AHL before joining the Jets and has been with them since 2019-20. In 2020-21, the 25-year-old played just 26 of 56 games with Winnipeg, serving as a healthy scratch for the other 30 games of the season. According to PuckPedia.com, Harkins is now coming off of a two-year, $1.45 million contract and is set to become a restricted free agent with arbitration eligibility this off-season. He’ll be eligible for unrestricted free agency after the 2023-24 campaign. With that in mind, let’s discuss the positives and negatives regarding Harkins’ third NHL season. This past season, H