Game 7: Jets vs Kings pre-game report

The Jets got a bit of a boost on Wednesday when captain Blake Wheeler returned to the ice for a practice in Anaheim. It isn’t clear as to whether he will play today as it was an optional skate although given that he hasn’t had a full practice with the team and is coming off having COVID it seems somewhat unlikely.

Presuming they do not then you are gonna see the 11/7 lineup which they used to win three straight games.  We do know that Eric Comrie will be getting his first start of the season and the first start in a Jets net since April 2nd, 2019.

Morning skate:

As per Mitchell Clinton of JetsTV there are no changes to line rushes. He also indicated that Blake Wheeler is skating again for a second straight day.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

Stastny-Copp-Ehlers
Connor-Dubois-Svechnikov
Harkins-Lowry-Vesalainen
Toninato-Nash

Morrissey-Schmidt
Dillon-Pionk
Stanley-DeMelo
Beaulieu

Comrie
Hellebuyck

Players media availability:

Coach media availability:

Topics:

1) How Phillip Danault has changed the Kings?
2) How has it freed up Anze Kopitar? (2:07)
3) On Eric Comrie’s teammates wanting him to succeed. (3:39)
4)  Status of Mark Scheifele (4:37)
5) His takeaways from the Kyle Beach interview (4:54)
6) Is this an opportunity for the players to have open conversations? (6:57).

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 9:30 pm CDT.  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 head coach Paul Maurice.  You can also join us afterwards for our post-game show here (be sure to smash that like/subscribe button).