Game 16: Jets vs Oilers pre-game report

The Jets left Winnipeg yesterday with a 5-1-1 record after they concluded their seven game homestand. They are out west for a quick two-game road trip starting tonight in Edmonton which will conclude a home and home series with the Oilers.

They left veteran forward Paul Stastny in Winnipeg as he continues to recover from a friendly fire shot he took back on November 6th. Expectations are that the team will run the exact same lineup as they used against Edmonton on Tuesday in their 5-2 win.

Morning skate:

Only note from skate was via Mitchell Clinton of JetsTV who indicated “Connor Hellebuyck’s regular starting goaltender routine has commenced.”

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

Copp-Scheifele-Ehlers
Connor-Dubois-Wheeler
Harkins-Lowry-Svechnikov
Toninato-Nash-Vesalainen

Morrissey-Schmidt
Dillon-Pionk
Stanley-DeMelo

Hellebuyck
Comrie

Players media availability:

Coach media availability:

Topics:

1) Pionk/Morrissey handling top players.
2) Change in Jets style (1:09)
3) Leon Draisaitl as a shooter (2:06)
4) Pierre-Luc Dubois having a long leash (3:48)
5) Getting both top lines going (4:53)
6) Depth Jets have up the middle (5:33)
7) What is Ralph Kruger up to? (6:26)
8) Challenge for star players to get penalty calls (7:34).

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 8 pm CDT.  Be sure to head over to illegalcurve.com following the game for a recap of the action which includes post-game interviews from Jets players as well as from head coach Paul Maurice.  You can also join us afterwards for our post-game show here (be sure to smash that like/subscribe button).