Game 15: Winnipeg Jets vs New Jersey Devils pre-game report

The Jets were feeling good until the Stars came to town on Saturday and stopped their three-game win streak in its tracks. The Devils had been humming along but injuries to Jack Hughes and Nico Hischier have brought that red-hot start to a more mild temperature.

New Jersey has somewhat of an unusual schedule right now. They played host to the Capitals in The Garden State last Friday, flew to Winnipeg on Monday for tonight’s game before they head back east to Pennsylvania to face Pittsburgh on Thursday.

Skate news:

No changes for the Jets this morning at skate.

Warm-up skate:

Logan Stanley was on the ice for warm-up as was David Gustafsson. Jets going 11/7.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

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

Morrissey-DeMelo
Dillon-Pionk
Samberg-Schmidt
Stanley

Hellebuyck
Brossoit

Player pre-game interviews:

Coach pre-game interview:

Topics:

1) The New Jersey Devils power play.
2) Ensuring they play 5 on 5 (1:25)
3) Facing up and coming young teams (2:22)
4) Having plenty of time between games (3:29)
5) Getting guys down to the Moose (4:28)
6) Impact Lindy Ruff has had on his career (4:49)
7) How has he grown as a coach? (5:30)

Betway Odds:

Both these clubs have similar records (7-5-2 for Winnipeg and 7-5-1 for New Jersey) and similar goals for/against totals this season. As mentioned above the Devils have cooled a bit of late losing their last two games although they’ve been a good road team (4-2-0) this season. The oddsmakers give the edge to the home team in this contest. Be sure to check out the latest game day odds from Betway.

Up Next:

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