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Game 41: Jets vs Canadiens pre-game report

The Jets and Habs will do battle again tonight after the Jets took the first game of their road trip on Thursday.

Morning skate news:

As per Mitchell Clinton of JetsTV it will be the same lineup as last game including Connor Hellebuyck back in net.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

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

Morrissey-DeMelo
Forbort-Pionk
Stanley-Poolman

Hellebuyck
Brossoit

Players media availability:

Coach media availability:

Topics:

1. Analyzing the series between the Jets and Habs.
2. Did he notice anything different from the Habs on Thursday?
3. What stood out about the Jets PK?
4. Same lineup configuration as the game ended?
5. Adapting to situations in-game.
6. The Jets power play without Blake Wheeler.
7. What are final few days like before trade deadline?

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 6:00 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 Paul Maurice. You can also join us afterwards for our post-game show here (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.