The big news on Thursday was that Nikolaj Ehlers declared himself healthy and ready to go. Of course in order to be cap compliant the team had to put Austin Poganski on waivers and will most likely move Perfetti/Reichel to LTIR.

The only other lineup snafu although interim coach Dave Lowry wasn’t saying much about it was that Neal Pionk  is “managing something but he wouldn’t elaborate.

For now the projected lines are based on how things ended for Winnipeg in their last game.

Morning skate:

As per Scott Billeck of the Winnipeg Sun neither Dominic Toninato nor Neal Pionk took morning skate but they are expected to play tonight.

Lineup news:

Jets interim head coach Dave Lowry says both Neal Pionk and Dominic Toninato are playing tonight.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

Stastny-Scheifele-Wheeler
Connor-Dubois-Svechnikov
Copp-Lowry-Ehlers
Vesalainen-Toninato-Harkins

Morrissey-DeMelo
Dillon-Pionk
Beaulieu-Schmidt

Hellebuyck
Comrie

Player media availability:

Coach media availability:

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 7 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.

You can also join us afterwards for the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show. (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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