Game 62: Jets vs. Coyotes pre-game report

It will be a big night in the desert as the Coyotes are retiring Shane Doan’s jersey.  A draft pick of the original Jets 1.0 back in 1995 he played his rookie season in Winnipeg before the team relocated to Arizona.  He played a total of 21 professional seasons.

We learned yesterday courtesy of Jets practice the rough timeline of Dustin Byfuglien’s recovery and that Blake Wheeler/Dmitry Kulikov, who missed skate yesterday, are both expected to play tonight.  We also learned that Laurent Brossoit gets the start in net.  For now the projected lines listed below is simply based on the last game.

Morning Skate:

Jets cancelled morning skate.

Jets projected lines, D pairs and starting goalie:

Laine-Scheifele-Wheeler
Connor-Little-Ehlers
Copp-Lowry-Tanev
Perreault-Roslovic-Appleton

Morrissey-Trouba
Kulikov-Myers
Chiarot-Niku

Brossoit
Hellebuyck

Coyotes projected lines, D pairs and starting goalie:

Galchenyuk-Cousins-Keller
Crouse-Stepan-Archibald
Kempe-Richardson-Hinostroza
Garland-Weal-Ponik

Ekman Larsson-Hjalmarsson
Gologoski-Chychrun
Connauton-Oesterle

Kuemper
Pickard

Projected Coyotes roster via Brian Munz of TSN 1290 Winnipeg.

Audio:

To follow.

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 8 pm CT.  Be sure to head over to illegalcurve.com following the game for a recap of the action which includes post-game audio from the Jets room as well as from coach Maurice.