Game 27: Jets vs. Leafs pre-game report

The Jets rested and recovered on Friday as they look to conclude this five-game road trip with a victory over the Leafs. We didn’t get any insight into any lineup changes so stay tuned to see if there are any new faces in the lineup for the Jets.

Morning skate:

Gets going at 10:30 AM.  For now the projected lineup is simply based on the last game.

Goalie:

Paul Maurice confirms Laurent Brossoit will start.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

Stastny-Scheifele-Wheeler
Connor-Dubois-Ehlers
Copp-Lowry-Appleton
Perreault-Thompson-Lewis

Morrissey-Poolman
Forbort-Pionk
Stanley-DeMelo

Brossoit
Hellebuyck

Player availability:

Coach availability:

Topics:

1. Leafs ability to spread out in Ozone, difficulty in defending
2. Influence of the Jets veterans on the team.
3. Having players to help keep the team “calm”.
4. Challenge of finding the right “veterans”
5. What is his sense on how his team is handling the Matthews line?
6. Knowing the thresholds of his lines.
7. Same lines and pairs?
8. Where does he assess Pierre-Luc Dubois at this point?
9. Who will play in net tonight?

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 6:00 pm CST.  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.