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Game 2 of the preseason: Jets vs. Oilers pre-game report

Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

The Jets released the playing and non-playing groups this morning and based on yesterday’s skate you can expect the following:

Connor-Scheifele-Wheeler
Stastny-Lowry-Vesalainen
Harkins-Perfetti-Svechnikov
Eyssimont-Gustafsson-Poganski

Morrissey-Schmidt
Heinola-DeMelo
Stanley-Kovacevic

Hellebuyck
Berdin

Special teams:

PP1: Morrissey/Schmidt (alternating), Wheeler, Scheifele, Connor, Stastny

PK1: Gustafsson, Poganski, Stanley, Kovacevic

PP2: Morrissey/Schmidt, Heinola, Perfetti, Harkins, Vesalainen

PK2: Eyssimont, Lowry, Stanley, DeMelo

Via Murat Ates of The Athletic Winnipeg.

Players media availability:

Coach media availability:

Topics:

1) What is he looking for tonight?
2) Having more D options for PP units (:26)
3) Getting both PP units going and did he consider Ehlers for top unit? (1:49)
4) Is this training camp different for him? (2:40)
5) Competition for a bottom six spot, has anyone caught his eye? (4:12)
6) Why don’t vets like training camp? (4:44)
7) How is not having Scheifele for game 1 impacted his planning? (5:54)
8) Using 7 defenceman. (6:25)
9) How much does he monitor the veterans minutes in these games? (7:06).

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 7:00 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.

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.