Game 3: Winnipeg Jets vs Minnesota Wild pre-game report

The Jets are sticking with what has been a winning formula, or at least they did in practice on Saturday. Of course they are just 2-0 so there is still plenty of room for improvement from this hockey club. They will face a Wild team that are coming off a 6-5 shootout loss last night to the Kraken in St. Paul. While they picked up a point it might have been a costly one as Joel Eriksson Ek, who is a big part of this Minnesota team, took an elbow to the face and did not make the trip to Winnipeg according to Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet.

Skate news:

Optional morning skate. Projected lines based on practice.

Lines & D pairs:

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

Morrissey-DeMelo
Samberg-Pionk
Fleury-Miller

Hellebuyck
Comrie

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 5 PM CDT.  Be sure to head over to illegalcurve.com following the game for a recap of the action. Reminder to join us on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show as we discuss and analyze the results of the game.