Game 14: Winnipeg Jets vs Colorado Avalanche pre-game report

The Jets and Avs will face off for the first time since April 30th when Colorado defeated Winnipeg four games to one in their first round playoff series. Winnipeg had come into the post-season on an eight-game win streak but got their clocks cleaned in five games by an Avs team that were had gone into the playoffs with a 3-4-1 record in their final eight contests.

Once again the Jets are a red-hot team (12-1-0) having won four straight going up against an Avalanche team (6-7-0) that won their last game but had lost the three prior ones giving up five goals per game in each of those defeats.

The visitors come into this contest with a laundry list of skating wounded including: Ross Colton, Miles Wood, Jonathan Drouin and possibly Cale Makar. Also missing is Jet killer Valeri Nichushkin who was cleared to practice after completing six-month Player Assistance suspension.

A side by side comparison of these two clubs are quite start:
Team: Jets | Avs
Wins: 12 | 6
G/F: 62 | 30
G/A: 46 | 54
Diff: +32 | -8

Morning skate news:

No changes for the Jets today at morning skate. Jaret Anderson-Dolan was in a regular uniform.

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) Not seeing tnt as a retribution game.
2) Being disciplined with Avs having lethal PP (:50)
3) What makes Kyle Connor so special? (1:21)
4) What changes are most gratifying from changes implemented?  (2:31)
5) How do you they measure 10% improvement? (3:18)
6) Managing the schedule (4:00)
7) Team massage therapist Al Pritchard working his 1000th game (4:51)

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 7 PM CST.  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 CST as we discuss and analyze the results of the game.