Puck drop is 6 pm CST tonight between the Jets and Maple Leafs at Air Canada Centre. Winnipeg held a game day skate this morning and according to Ken Wiebe of the Winnipeg Sun, Ondrej Pavelec will start in net for the Jets tonight. Jets rookie forward Andrew Copp was placed on Injured Reserve on Wednesday and Patrice Cormier was recalled from the Manitoba Moose. Nic Petan is expected to center the 4th line with Anthony Peluso and Chris Thorburn. Cormier is expected to be a healthy scratch. Here are your projected lines:
Ladd-Little-Wheeler
Perreault-Scheifele-Ehlers
Burmistrov-Lowry-Stafford
Peluso-Petan-Thorburn
Enstrom-Byfuglien
Chiarot-Myers
Stuart-Trouba
Pavelec
Hutchinson
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The Leafs held their game day skate this morning. Tonight’s starting goalie will be Manitoba native James Reimer. Jonathan Bernier is not in the line-up as he has a lower body injury. Rookie goaltender Antoine Bibeau will back Reimer up.
van Riemsdyk-Kadri-Komarov
Matthias-Bozak-Parenteau
Winnik-Spaling-Lupul
Grabner-Froese-Boyes
Gardiner-Phaneuf
Hunwick-Rielly
Marincin-Polak
Reimer
Bibeau
