Game 40: Jets vs. Penguins pre-game report

The Jets practiced on Thursday in Winnipeg ahead of today’s game against the Penguins in Pittsburgh and it looks like it will be status quo in terms of the lineup for them.  They are going to have to be on their game as the Penguins come in having won seven straight games which has vaulted them into 2nd spot in the Metropolitan Division which included a 7-2 thrashing of the Rangers on Wednesday.

AM skate:

Ken Wiebe of the Winnipeg Sun confirms that Connor Hellebuyck will get the start.

Jets projected lines, D pairs and starting goalie:

Ehlers-Scheifele-Wheeler
Connor-Little-Laine
Perreault-Lowry-Tanev
Copp-Roslovic-Lemieux

Morrissey-Trouba
Chiarot-Myers
Morrow-Kulikov

Hellebuyck
Brossoit

Audio:

Nikolaj Ehlers

Joe Morrow

Andrew Copp

Coach Maurice:  How does he see the match-ups tonight (specifically the bottom six).  How pleased is he with his team’s road game?  What follow up is he looking for from the 4th line?  On the challenge of the upcoming schedule.  Coaching in an All-Star game (as it isn’t official he didn’t wanna discuss but does talk about Ken’s jinxing ability).  On Matt Cullen still going at age 42.  On the heat taken by the kids in the World Juniors.

All audio courtesy of TSN 1290 Winnipeg.

Penguins projected lines, D pairs and starting goalie:

Guentzel-Crosby-Rust
Simon-Malkin-Hornqvist
Pearson-Brassard-Kessel
Aston Reese-Cullen-Sheahan

Dumoulin-Letang
Maatta-Oleksiak
Pettersson-Johnson

Murray
DeSmith

Pittsburgh projected roster for tonight via Brian Munz of TSN 1290 Winnipeg.

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 6:00 pm CT.  Be sure to head over to illegalcurve.com following the game for a recap of the action which includes post-game audio from the Jets room as well as from coach Maurice.