2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs: Winnipeg Jets vs Dallas Stars pre-game 3 report

Will the Jets be able to maintain the momentum they built up from a 4-0 win in Game 2 to even their series or will their playoff road woes continue? Will the Stars be able to get back to their style of play?

We learned on Saturday from Dallas head coach Pete DeBoer’s media availability that they will not have Miro Heiskanen for the game this afternoon as he ruled him out. While the top pairing Dman has been out of the lineup since late January even if he wasn’t fully healthy you’d have to think he could have an impact.

Morning skate news:

No skate this morning with an early puck drop.

Lineup news:

No changes for the Jets.

Jets lines & D pairs:

Connor-Scheifele-Vilardi
Ehlers-Namestnikov-Perfetti
Niederrieter-Lowry-Appleton
Tanev-Barron-Iafallo

Morrissey-DeMelo
Samberg-Pionk
Fleury-Miller

Hellebuyck

Stars lines & D pairs:

Granlund-Hintz-Rantanen
Benn-Duchene-Seguin
Marchment-Johnston-Robertson
Blackwell-Steel-Dadonov

Harley – Lyubushkin
Lindell – Ceci
Bischel – Petrovic

Oettinger

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 3:30 PM CDT.  Be sure to head over to illegalcurve.com following the game for a recap of the action which includes post-game interviews from Jets players as well as from head coach Scott Arniel. You can also join us afterwards for the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show (be sure to smash that like/subscribe button).

David Minuk

Working hard on a daily basis to provide the latest Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose news for our readers and listeners. I also appear on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show every Saturday on our YouTube channel as well as the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show after every single Jets game. And I occasionally jump in the play-by-play booth at Canada Life to provide colour analysis during Manitoba Moose games.

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