Game 12: Winnipeg Jets vs St. Louis Blues pre-game report

The Jets reunited as a team on Monday night in St. Louis in advance of the game as a number of players had left the team after the win over the Coyotes on Saturday afternoon to return to Minnesota to take part in Adam Johnson’s funeral and celebration of life. As a result the practice the team held in Tempe yesterday didn’t feature any line rushes or D pairings.

Skate news:

As per Mike McIntyre of the Winnipeg Free Press tweeting that there are no changes and that Connor Hellebuyck starts in net.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

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

Morrissey-DeMelo
Dillon-Pionk
Samberg-Schmidt

Hellebuyck
Brossoit

Betway Odds:

Should be an interesting test against a St. Louis team that doesn’t score nearly as many goals as the Jets but also doesn’t give up nearly as many goals. In fact both teams are sitting with a minus three goal differential and just one point separates these two clubs. The Blues have been very good at home this season going 4-1-0 at Enterprise Center but despite that stat the oddsmakers see the visitors as the current favourites in this contest. Be sure to check out the latest game day odds from Betway.

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. You can also join us afterwards for the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show. (be sure to smash that like/subscribe button).