Game 57: Winnipeg Jets vs St Louis Blues pre-game report

The Jets have seen a fall in their 5 on 5 play of late but their power play has been red-hot, their goaltending remains stellar and they’ve won six of their last seven games. As a result they sit second in the Central just a point back of the Stars with three games in hand.

The Blues were looking like they could be challenging for the 4th spot in the Central but they’ve fallen of late going 5-5-0 in their last ten which has kept them ahead of a hard-charging Wild team but well behind a Predators team that has won five straight and given themselves a buffer of four points on these two clubs.

Morning Skate:

Sean Monahan on the ice for morning skate after missing the last game with illness.

David Gustafsson on the ice after his conditioning loan to the Moose which expired yesterday.

Looks like Laurent Brossoit gets the start tonight.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

Connor-Scheifele-Vilardi
Ehlers-Monahan-Iafallo
Niederreiter-Lowry-Appleton
Barron-Namestnikov-Perfetti

Morrissey-DeMelo
Dillon-Pionk
Samberg-Schmidt

Brossoit
Hellebuyck

Players media:

Coach media:

Topics:

1. Facing the Blues
2. Not preventing 3rd period goals (:43)
3. Trying Cole Perfetti back on the right (1:28)
4. Is Cole Perfetti doing enough to stick in lineup? (1:57)
5. What are challenges for Perfetti on right side? (2:38)
6. Is he paying any attention to the season ticket situation? (3:16)
7. Getting Laurent Brossoit into more games (3:36)
8. Role Vlad Namestnikov can play in helping Perfetti (4:17)
9. Winning games in different ways (5:21)
10. How do they get comfortable in one goal games? (6:38)
11. Assessment of David Gustafsson’s conditioning loan (7:12)

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