Game 18: Jets vs Penguins pre-game report

The Jets are looking to stop their losing skid after going 0-1-1 during their two-game road trip out west. Today they welcome Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins to town for their only visit of the season.  The question coming into the game was the status of veteran forward Paul Stastny although since he didn’t skate on Sunday he will most likely have to wait until the road trip to return to the lineup.

Morning skate:

As per Ken Wiebe of Sportsnet goalie Connor Hellebuyck will get the start in net for the Jets and Paul Stastny did not skate but according to Mitchell Clinton he was on the ice before morning skate got underway.

Lineup news:

Coach Paul Maurice confirms same skaters for the Jets as last game.

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) Memories of Josh Morrissey’s dad Tom.
2) Thoughts with Jamie and Tina Kompon and others in his life who have dealt with cancer.
3) How did it go for Paul Stastny on the conditioning skate?
4) Lineup for tonight?
5) What does he expect from the style tonight?
6) Extremes of Penguins special teams.
7) Does he chase line matchups?

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 7:30 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).