Game 13: Winnipeg Jets vs Utah Hockey Club pre-game report

For the first time the Jets will be visited by the Utah Hockey Club this evening. These are not the Jets 1.0 or the Coyotes as those histories were left behind in Arizona when the team was relocated north to Utah.

This was seen as an up and coming team with some solid players and a ton of draft capital. They dealt some of that during the summer when they acquired Mikhail Sergachev from the Lightning and John Marino from the Devils.

They’ve had a good start to the 2024-25 campaign with a 5-4-3 record through 12 games which has them in 4th in the Central Division. They’ve scored 22 fewer goals than the Jets and they’ve allowed 12 more against. They come into tonight’s game with the 18th ranked PP and the 16th ranked PK. Clayton Keller and Dylan Guenther lead the way with six goals each.

Based on how things looked for the Jets on Monday no changes are expected but we’ll have to wait for morning skate to confirm. Worth noting Nikolaj Ehlers and Logan Stanley did not skate yesterday but assistant coach Marty Johnston said it was maintenance for both.

Morning skate news:

No lineup changes for the Jets. Ehlers and Stanley both taking part as expected.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

Connor-Scheifele-Vilardi
Perfetti-Namestnikov-Ehlers
Niederreiter-Lowry-Appleton
Barron-Kupari-Iafallo

Morrissey-DeMelo
Samberg-Pionk
Stanley-Miller

Hellebuyck
Comrie

Player media:

Coach media:

Topics:

1) What he’s noticed about this Utah team?
2) 10 games in 19 days, how is team holding up? (:40)
3) Both power play units firing on all cylinders (1:09)
4) Cole Perfetti being out late in game (2:13)
5) Updates on Ville Heinola and Jaret Anderson-Dolan? (3:04)
6) Balancing temptation to try new things vs preparing for playoffs (3:40)
7) First fight of the year for them last game (4:46)

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 7 PM CDT.  Be sure to head over to illegalcurve.com following the game for a recap of the action. Reminder to join us on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show around 9:40 PM CDT as we discuss and analyze the results of the game.