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The big question mark today was gonna be if Jonathan Toews was skating or not. We weren’t expecting any big news as head coach Scott Arniel was on NHL Network radio yesterday and revealed that the future Hall of Famer was day-to-day after he tweaked something in the game on Tuesday in St. Paul.
Skate news:
Courtesy of Connor Hrabchak of WST we learned that Toews did not skate today. He also provided the lines and D pairs below.
Projected lines & D pairs:
Connor-Scheifele-Vilardi
Nyquist-Namestnikov-Perfetti
Niederreiter-Barron-Iafallo
Pearson-Ford-Koepke
Gus/Duehr/Lambert/Chibrikov
Morrissey-DeMelo
Stanley-Pionk
Fleury-Schenn
Heinola-Miller
Media:
Waivers:
We learned just after 1 PM that all three players (Jaret Anderson-Dolan, Samuel Fagemo and Kale Clague) the Jets had placed on waivers had cleared and could be assigned to the Moose. Good depth additions for the AHL club of Manitoba.
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