The Jets left Winnipeg riding a three-game win streak, which has them tied for second overall in the entire NHL with about 15% of the schedule completed. This is notable given the absence of captain Adam Lowry, top shutdown defenceman Dylan Samberg, and secondary scoring from Cole Perfetti. On Monday, we learned that Lowry would make his regular-season debut this evening in Los Angeles. Samberg and Perfetti are on the trip but still need to get into contact.
It wasn’t all good news for the NHL club of Winnipeg, however. Centre Morgan Barron was lost to a mid-body injury in the win over the Penguins on Saturday and is now listed as week-to-week while Gustav Nyquist remains day-to-day after suffering an injury in the win over the Hawks last Thursday.
Away from Canada Life Centre the Jets have gone a perfect 4-0-0 on the road where they’ve scored twice as many goals as they’ve given up. The penalty kill remains in the top 5 of the league while the power play is sitting 8th overall.
They take on a Kings team that have not yet won a home game going 0-3-2 at Cyrpto Arena. Their goal differential is -7. They have the 25th ranked power play and the 24th ranked penalty kill.
Skate news:
According to Murat Ates of The Athletic Winnipeg there were no changes from yesterday’s practice group.
Warm-up skate:
Turns out there was one change as Haydn Fleury was in and Luke Schenn was out.
Jets projected lines & D pairs:
Connor-Scheifele-Vilardi
Namestnikov-Toews-Iafallo
Niederreiter-Lowry-Pearson
Koepke-Ford-Lambert
Morrissey-DeMelo
Stanley-Pionk
Fleury-Miller
Hellebuyck
Comrie
Kings projected lines & D pairs:
Armia – Kopitar – Kempe
Fiala – Byfield – Laferriere
Kuzmenko – Danault – Moore
Malott – Turcotte – Perry
Helenius
Anderson – Doughty
Edmundson – Clarke
Dumoulin – Ceci
Kuemper
Forsberg
Via Jared Shafran from practice.
Players media availability:
Coach media availability:
Topics:
1) Play of Parker Ford.
2) Reflection on the last game vs Kings (:48)
3) What’s he liked from the Toews line? (1:37)
4) What has Jonathan Toews brought to their room? (2:16)
5) Evolution of Gabriel Vilardi’s game (3:03)
6) Impact of Toews on the ice (especially considering absences) (3:50)
7) Sharing the workload between the middle six (4:54)
8) Foundation building time now? (5:42)
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