One thing stood out to Perfetti over the 120 minutes he was on the ice.
"Passes are always on the tape, they're crisp and they're hard. That improves the flow of practice. You get through your drills quicker. It allows for less skating and less work when you play like that and are efficient with the puck," said Perfetti.
"Here, everyone is so smart and so good that there isn't as much teaching. Most of that learning comes in the video. It's just execution on the ice. At this level, everyone executes pretty high."
Jets head coach Paul Maurice was eager to see Perfetti skate with the Jets, adding that this three-day block between games was the ideal time to have that happen.
"This is a really smart, very competitive young man with a great set of hands. He's carrying around a big hockey brain there," said Maurice. "He fit into those drills, he got them right - more importantly the nuances of the drill and what we were trying to accomplish with each drill, he just went out and did it."
A prospect's first practice is always memorable. Like Perfetti, Jets veteran Josh Morrissey was also picked in the first round.
"It brings back memories of my first opportunity to skate with the big guys," said Morrissey. "He looked pretty good. You can see the skill and ability. You can see all the attributes as to why he was drafted where he was."
He remembers coming into his first camp and how quickly his mindset changed.
"You get drafted and it's like 'I'm making the team this year as an 18-year-old.' Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't," said Morrissey.
"As a 19-year-old it's the same thing. As a 20-year-old it' the same thing. It took me until my fourth training camp until I was ready to make that jump. Everyone is on their own path."
Practice time will be at a premium during this season's condensed schedule.
A good example of this lies with the Jets power play. The current first unit - Morrissey, Mark Scheifele, Blake Wheeler, Paul Stastny, and Kyle Connor - had one practice together prior to the Jets heading on a three-game road trip.
That was back on Jan. 17. Winnipeg has played six games since that day with just three days between them. Those days become a balance of rest versus getting on the ice for a shorter practice to work on a small number of in-game situations, or simply just to get the legs moving.
Yesterday, the Jets had a scheduled off day. They now have two full days of practice before continuing a seven-game home stand against the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday.
However, Scheifele, Stastny, and Wheeler weren't on the ice for practice Thursday, so the power play work gets pushed to another day. Maurice said the trio was kept off the ice for maintenance purposes and are expected on the ice Friday.
Morrissey was on the ice, though, and just as he does every practice - he came out with a goal in mind. Today, it was getting his stick on the puck - whether to break up plays or deflect pucks out of dangerous areas - while earlier in the season, it was something else.
"You can watch your shifts and watch your game and see some trends," said Morrissey. "In the first couple games I felt I was a little excited to jump up. So I tried to calm that down a little bit coming out of our own end, just stay underneath in puck support."
