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Game 37: Jets vs Bruins pre-game report

The Jets haven’t had a stellar start to their four game road trip with a OT and regulation loss to date. They are playing a Bruins team that will be without Brad Marchand who suffered an injury in their last game against the Capitals.

A few question marks for Winnipeg prior to puck drop:

1) Will captain Blake Wheeler play his first game since he was injured back on December 10th?

2) If the answer to question 1 is yes then the next question becomes who comes out of the lineup for him? Given Evgeny Svechnikov played a whopping three minutes last game he might be watching instead of playing.

3) Will defenceman Brenden Dillon play now that he is put of Covid protocol?

4) If the answer to question 3 is yes then the next question becomes is it Dylan Samberg or Logan Stanley who comes out of the lineup?

Unless we hear otherwise it will have to wait for warm up skate 30 minutes before puck drop to have any sort of clarity.

Morning skate:

None

Transaction news:

The Jets have activated Blake Wheeler from LTIR and added Nikolaj Ehlers added to it. Also Kristian Reichel was moved to the taxi squad.

Warm up news:

Mike McIntrye of the Winnipeg Free Press indicated that Brenden Dillon and Blake Wheeler are on the ice.  No Logan Stanley so he’ll come out as will Evgeny Svechnikov.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

Copp-Scheifele-Wheeler
Connor-Dubois-Perfetti
Stastny-Lowry-Vesalainen
Harkins-Toninato-Poganski

Morrissey-DeMelo
Dillon-Pionk
Samberg-Schmidt

Hellebuyck
Berdin

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 2 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 interim head coach Dave Lowry.

You can also join us afterwards for the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show. (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.

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