All 32 NHL teams will be in action throughout the day starting with the Jets and Kings doing battle in Winnipeg. The visitors have already played twice including a loss to the Avs to start and then a comeback win over the Golden Knights. There will be a pair of familiar faces in the lineup for Los Angeles including old friend Joel Armia and Jeff Malott who at 29 years of age made the opening night roster of an NHL club. After four seasons with the Moose the Ontario product has a lot of friends who are happy for his success but as Morgan Barron shared with us on Friday they’ll be happy if he is successful in all games that don’t involve Winnipeg.
The home team is looking to tighten things up after things got loose in the home opener against Dallas.
Skate news:
No morning skate.
Jets projected lines & D pairs:
Connor-Scheifele-Vilardi
Iafallo-Toews-Chibrikov
Niederreiter-Namestnikov-Nyquist
Pearson-Barron-Koepke
Morrissey-DeMelo
Fleury-Pionk
Stanley-Schenn
Hellebuyck
Comrie
Kings projected lines & D pairs:
Kuzmenko – Kopitar – Kempe
Fiala – Byfield – Laferriere
Foegele – Danault – Moore
Malott – Turcotte – Armia
Anderson – Doughty
Edmundson – Clarke
Dumoulin – Ceci
Forsberg
Kuemper
Media note:
Both Barron and coach Scott Arniel media availabilities are from yesterday as the team won’t be doing media in advance of puck drop. Barron has some good stuff on Jeff Malott.
Players media availability:
Coach media availability:
Up Next:
Puck drop is at 12:30 PM CDT. Be sure to head over to illegalcurve.com following the game for a recap of the action. You can join us on our YouTube channel for the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show around 3:10 PM CDT as we discuss and analyze the results of the game.
