Game 4 of the pre-season: Jets vs Oilers pre-game report

The Jets are 2-1-0 in their pre-season exhibition games and will look to build on that when they take on the Oilers this evening in Winnipeg.

Morning skate:

Courtesy of Mitchell Clinton of Jets TV the lines and D pairs from the IcePlex are below.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

Perfetti-Dubois-Wheeler
Maenalanen-Lowry-Appleton
Harkins-Toninato-Stenlund
Lambert-Gustafsson-Reichel

Dillon-Pionk
Stanley-Schmidt
Heinola-Samberg

Hellebuyck
Rittich

Players media availability:

Coach media availability:

Topics:

1) Ceremony for Dale Hawerchuk
2) Seeing the old teammates in town for the ceremony (1:19)
3) What is the first thing that comes to mind when he thinks of Dale? (1:38)
4) Dressing strongest lineup of pre-season (2:29)
5) Pairing Samberg and Heinola (3:24)
6) Getting to know the players (4:14)
7)  Questions coming from the players (5:12)
8) What is he looking at in his D pairings? (5:44)
9) Battles at camp for spots (6:29)
10) Commemorating Dale Hawerchuk in the manner they are (7:38)

Up Next:

The Dale Hawerchuk ceremony opens to the public at 4:30 PM and the ceremony begins at 5:15 PM. Puck drop is at 7:00 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 Rick Bowness.