Game 6: Jets vs. Blue Jackets pre-game report

Game six on the Jets schedule brings the 4-1-0 Columbus Blue Jackets to town for their only visit of the season. They, like Winnipeg, are riding a three game winning streak.  Coach Maurice indicated at yesterday’s practice that Steve Mason would be in net against his old team.  Scott Billeck of NHL.com says it is an optional this morning at Bell MTS Place.  The lines and D pairs from yesterday were:

Ehlers-Scheifele-Wheeler
Connor-Little-Laine
Matthias-Copp-Tanev
Dano-Petan-Armia

Morrissey-Trouba
Enstrom-Byfuglien
Poolman-Myers

Mason
Hellebuyck

The Blue Jackets aren’t skating this morning but according to George Richards of the Columbus Dispatch here are their projected lines/D pairs and he confirmed that Joonas Korpisalo will start in net:

Panarin-Wennberg-Atkinson
Calvert-Foligno-Bjorkstrand
Milano-Dubinsky-Anderson
Dubois-Sedlak-Dalpe

Werenski-Jones
Johnson-Savard
Murray-Harrinton

Korpisalo
Bobrovsky

Audio:

Steve Mason

All audio courtesy of TSN 1290 Winnipeg.

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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