The Winnipeg Jets are off and running on a new NHL season — and local hockey fans are already in mid-season form when it comes to questions about the club.

Free Press hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe are here with all the answers in the latest edition of their monthly mailbag.

If a player is injured early in the season and can’t play for the rest of the year, what happens to his salary? What happens if it’s a career-ending injury and he’s still under contract for many more years?

GARY

MCINTYRE: NHL contracts are guaranteed, so the player would continue to get paid for the duration.

There’s no way, for example, for a team to simply cut someone and be absolved of any further financial responsibility, like you might see in the NFL. There is, however, salary-cap relief that can

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