Game 33: Jets vs Canucks pre-game report

The Jets took Tuesday off following their 4-0 win over the Canucks on Monday as they continue to manage this condensed schedule which has meant sacrificing practices in order to ensure players are resting/recovering.  The only move the team made yesterday was reassigning Dominic Toninato to the taxi squad from the 23-man roster.  It seems likely this was just done ahead of Monday night’s game for insurance purposes and perhaps we will see a similar move today.  Barring any injuries it seems unlikely that any changes will happen to the Jets lines and D pairs.  The only question mark seems to be whether Connor Hellebuyck will be back in the net for Winnipeg or if he’ll get the night off.

Roster update:

Once again Kevin Woodley of InGoal Magazine with some insight from Vancouver and he has the team lined up (forwards and D pairs) the same as how they looked on Monday.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

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

Morrissey-DeMelo
Forbort-Pionk
Stanley-Poolman

Hellebuyck
Brossoit

Canucks projected lines & D pairs:

According to Thomas Drance of The Athletic here is how Vancouver looks like based on morning skate.  He added that Thatcher Demko was off the ice first today.

Hoglander-Horvat-Boeser
Vesey-Miller-Virtanen
Motte-Gaudette-Hawryluk
Roussel-Sutter-MacEwen

Edler-Schmidt
Hughes-Hamonic
Benn-Myers

Demko

Player availability:

Coach availability:

Topics:

1. What does the offensive output of the third line mean for the team (without sacrificing D)
2. Situation with Tim Peel being fired by the NHL.
3. Game management from officials.
4. Covid situation in Montreal.
5. Familiarity of seeing same officials in the North Division.
6. What he liked about his D pairings?

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 9:30 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).