Game 52: Jets vs Avalanche pre-game report

The Jets took yesterday off and find themselves today in Colorado to take on an incredibly tough Avalanche squad who are 21-3-2 at home so far this season. The Jets have lost three straight and are desperate for a win as they sit six points back of the second wild card spot.

Skate news:

Only Jets media folks in attendance this morning at skate with travel issues for outside media folks so no insight on the lineup ahead of puck drop. We will have to check back for warm-up skate to verify. For now the projections are based on last game.

Warm-up skate:

As per Mitchell Clinton of JetsTV the only change is Poganski up to the third line and Vesalainen to the fourth.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

Stastny-Scheifele-Wheeler
Connor-Dubois-Svechnikov
Harkins-Lowry-Poganski
Vesalainen-Toninato-Brooks

Morrissey-DeMelo
Dillon-Pionk
Beaulieu-Schmidt

Hellebuyck
Comrie

Player media availability:

Coach media availability:

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 8 pm CST.  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.

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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.