Game 43: Jets vs Senators pre-game report

The Jets have won two of their three games on this road trip but their last contest on Monday against the Senators left a bad taste as a two goal lead evaporated with four straight by Ottawa to take the game.

Morning skate news:

It was an optional skate for the team today.

Roster news:

Jets coach Paul Maurice confirms it will be the same lineup except Laurent Brossoit 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

Brossoit
Hellebuyck

Players media availability:

Coach media availability:

Topics:

1. Lineup for tonight?
2. Integrating a new player during covid.
3.  Tinkering with the lines.
4. List of priorities for final 14 games and trying to get team to peak at right time.
5. On trying new D pairings.

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.

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