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Winnipeg Jets Practice Report

One last practice in Winnipeg before heading on the road.

A second straight day of practice for the Jets in Winnipeg ahead of a critical two-game road trip against a pair of central division opponents in the Stars and Predators.

Transaction news:

The team announced via their PR account that they had reassigned Declan Chisholm to the Moose.

Skate news:

As per Mitchell Clinton of JetsTV defenceman Logan Stanley was in a regular jersey. Both Neal Pionk and Austin Poganski were skating which means they are out of covid protocol. Lastly, David Gustafsson skated in a non-contact unifrom. Here are the lines and D pairs according to Mitch.

Lines and D pairs:

Stastny-Scheifele-Wheeler
Connor-Copp-Perfetti
Svechnikov-Lowry-Reichel
Harkins-Toninato-Vesalainen
(Poganski rotating in)

Morrissey-DeMelo
Dillon-Schmidt
Heinola-Pionk
Stanley-Kovacevic

Player media availability:

Coach media availability:

Topics:

1) How does he make sure everyone is focused on the challenge ahead one game at a time?
2) How important is tomorrow’s game mentally to get a win? (1:00)
3) Preventing what happened in Philly tomorrow in Dallas. (1:42)
4) Is Hellebuyck an option for both games this weekend? (2:20)
5) Is Heinola gonna stick with PP2? (2:47)
6) Could it help his 5 on 5 game? (3:19)

Up next:

The Jets head to Dallas where they will play a critical game against the Stars tomorrow night.  You can start your day with the Morning Papers which go live on illegalcurve.com at 7 AM, stick with us throughout the day for updates and then join the conversation on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show.

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