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Game 29: Jets vs Capitals pre-game report

Photo Credit: Alexander James (Illegal Curve)

No expected changes for the Jets with the recall of 2018 2nd rounder David Gustafsson from the Moose to be their 12th forward. The centre was able to get in a full practice with Winnipeg on Thursday.

Breaking news:

Paul Maurice has resigned as Jets head coach and Dave Lowry will be the interim head coach. Obviously going to be a busy day in Winnipeg with that news. You can watch the media availability with Paul Maurice here and Kevin Cheveldayoff here.

Lineup:

Interim head coach Dave Lowry confirms only lineup change will be David Gustafsson making his season debut.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

Stastny-Scheifele-Ehlers
Connor-Dubois-Svechnikov
Copp-Lowry-Toninato
Harkins-Gustafsson-Vesalainen

Morrissey-Schmidt
Dillon-Pionk
Stanley-DeMelo

Hellebuyck
Comrie

Players media availability:

Coach media availability:

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 7 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).

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.