Game 60: Jets vs Blues pre-game report

The Jets are looking to end their road trip with a win this evening in St. Louis against a Blues team that sit 13 points ahead of them in the standings. The Blues beat up the Predators 7-4 on Saturday afternoon in Nashville.

Biggest question marks for the Jets ahead of morning skate is which goalie will get the start and whether Ville Heinola may get into the lineup.

Morning skate:

As per Ken Wiebe of Sportsnet the question as to which goalie is expected to start appears to have been answered with Connor Hellebuyck going through his regular starter routine. Wieber also indicated that all healthy players are taking part including Neal Pionk who has been skipping practices and morning skates of late as he was “managing” something.  Lastly he also adds that the lines and D pairs will remain the same.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

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

Morrissey-DeMelo
Dillon-Pionk
Stanley-Schmidt

Hellebuyck
Comrie

Player media availability:

Coach media availability:

Topics:

1) Was there a thought to going with Comrie today?
2) What has stood out about the season series with the Blues?
3) St. Louis are both structed and have skill.
4) Sticking with the same lineup.
5) Adding Ehlers to the Dubois/Connor line and then putting him back with Lowry/Copp.
6) Nikolaj Ehlers since he returned from injury.
7) Have the Blues brought out the best in the Jets this year?
8) Did he get any clarity on Mark Scheifele’s unsportsmanlike penalty from last game?

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 6:00 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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