WINNIPEG - If Olli Jokinen can play like he can talk, the Winnipeg Jets have landed a solid free agent.

As long as he decides to play more often than he opened his mouth during the lockout.

After a couple months of telling reporters he wouldn't have a comment until the dispute was over, the 34-year-old Finn was true to his word, Monday, granting a nearly half-hour session with the media that went more places than Dustin Byfuglien in a game of pond hockey.