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Game 19: Winnipeg Jets vs Florida Panthers pre-game report

Revenge is on the brain for the Jets as they look to even the season series as part of his home-and-home set with the defending Stanley Cup champion Panthers which concludes this evening in Winnipeg. The Panthers routed the Jets on Saturday night in Florida which was the first time this season that Winnipeg had lost two straight games. They’ll be looking to end that tonight as they try to get back to their winning ways.

Skate news:

Based on Monday’s practice it looks like the Jets will be running out the same lineup that they’ve been using for awhile now.

No changes today at morning skate.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

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

Morrissey-DeMelo
Samberg-Pionk
Fleury-Miller

Hellebuyck
Comrie

Player media availability:

Coach media availability:

Topics:

1) Does the normal “park it” go out window?
2) What area would he like to see improvement? (:48)
3) Lack of quickness (1:33)
4) About guys making reads quicker (2:31)
5) Paul Maurice hoping the Jets win a Cup (2:59)
6) Plan for Ville Heinola (4:06)
7) What does he look for to see if a player is ‘up to speed’? (5:23)

Panthers projected lines & D pairs:

Verhaeghe – Barkov – Reinhart
Boqvist – Bennett – Tkachuk
Luostarinen – Lundell – Rodrigues
Greer – Nosek – Gadjovich

Forsling – Ekblad
Mikkola – Kulikov
Schmidt – Balinskis

Bobrovsky
Knight

Updated as per George Richards of Florida Hockey Now.

Coach media availability:

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Puck drop is at 7 PM CST. Be sure to head over to illegalcurve.com following the game for a recap of the action. As a special bonus we’ve got another special edition of Illegal Curve Hockey as we preview the Jets and Panthers game live from Cityplace. The broadcast gets going at 12 noon. You can join us live in person or on our YouTube channel. Reminder to also join us on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show around 9:40 PM CST as we discuss and analyze the results of the game.

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David Minuk

Working hard on a daily basis to provide the latest Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose news for our readers and listeners. I also appear on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show every Saturday on our YouTube channel as well as the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show after every single Jets game. And I occasionally jump in the play-by-play booth at Canada Life to provide colour analysis during Manitoba Moose games.