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Winnipeg Jets May Take On It's Us Against The World Mentality

08/28/2014 at 8:24am EDT

from Tim Campbell of the Winnipeg Free Press,

Given the forecasts of pessimism for a team many believe is falling behind in the NHL's difficult Central Division, thick skin is going to come in handy this fall, Jets captain Andrew Ladd suggested Wednesday

"I think you learn that they are predications and until you start playing games and see where you're at from that standpoint, they don't really mean anything," Ladd said Wednesday, asked at the Stars FORE Special O golf tournament what he thinks of all the off-season banter about his team. "It's just a bunch of chatter that everybody likes to talk about in the summer when there's nothing else going on.

"I think as a group we can use it as motivation to tell each other that no one's really giving us a chance and there's nothing wrong with that."

Ladd's teammate Blake Wheeler, coming off a 69-point season that led the Jets in scoring, said he's not all that interested in reminders from the past.

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