2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Round 1 Game 4: Jets vs. Blues pre-game report

The Jets look to even the series tonight in St. Louis in game four of this best of seven series.  For now the projected lines below are simply based on what the Jets used in game 3.

Morning Skate Notes:

As per Mike McIntyre of the Winnipeg Free Press all skaters are present and accounted for except Patrik Laine.  He also skipped the morning skate on Sunday.

Jets Projected lineup:

Connor-Scheifele-Wheeler
Ehlers-Little-Laine
Copp-Lowry-Tanev
Perreault-Hayes-Roslovic

Morrissey-Trouba
Chiarot-Byfuglien
Kulikov-Myers

Hellebuyck
Brossoit

Audio:

Mark Scheifele

Andrew Copp

Tyler Myers

Coach Maurice:  Status of Patrik Laine? How much of Dustin Byfuglien’s Stanley Cup experience bleeds into the room?  Putting Perreault-Hayes-Roslovic together.  On a different type of “4th line” for the Jets.  What makes Ben Chiarot a good partner for Dustin Byfuglien and what are his thoughts of Chiarot’s play in the playoffs?  Is he monitoring Josh Morrissey’s minutes?

Audio courtesy of TSN 1290 Winnipeg.

Status Update:

Coach Maurice was asked about Patrik Laine who didn’t skate this morning.  The Jets bench boss jokingly said it was “superstition probably now” since his sniper skipped morning skate on Sunday and then added that “he’s fine”.

Blues Projected Lineup:

Schenn-O’Reilly-Tarasenko
Schwartz-Sundqvist-Perron
Maroon-Bozak-Thomas
Fabbri-Barbashev-Steen

Dunn-Pietrangelo
Bouwmeester-Parayko
Edmundson-Bortuzzo

Binnington

St. Louis projected lines via Jeremy Rutherford of the Athletic St. Louis.

Blues Audio:

Alexander Steen

Alex Pietrangelo

Coach Berube

Audio courtesy of TSN 1290 Winnipeg.

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 8:30 pm CDT.  Be sure to head over to illegalcurve.com following the game for a recap of the action which includes post-game audio from the Jets room as well as from coach Maurice.