Game 7: Winnipeg Jets vs Seattle Kraken pre-game report

The Jets flew to the west coast on Wednesday after starting off their three-game road trip in the Midwest with a 3-2 victory over the Blues which improved them to 6-0-0 on the season. One of the calling cards of this Winnipeg club is they’ve won in a variety of fashions already this season. The special teams have been vastly improved since last year with the power play ranked number 1 in the NHL (watch this video for some great insight as to why they are having success) and even the penalty kill is 15th overall.

They will be going up against a Kraken team that are 4-3-0 after losing on Tuesday to the Avs. While Seattle hasn’t scored quite as much as Winnipeg (three less goals in one more game played) they have given up double the number of goals (10 vs 20). The Kraken have the 19th ranked PP in the NHL and 25th ranked PK.

Morning skate news:

As per Ken Wiebe of the Winnipeg Free Press no ch ch ch changes at morning skate at Climate Pledge Arena for the Jets.

Lines & D pairs:

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

Morrissey-DeMelo
Samberg-Pionk
Stanley-Miller

Hellebuyck
Comrie

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 9 PM CDT.  Be sure to head over to illegalcurve.com following the game for a recap of the action. Reminder to join us on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show around 11:40 PM CDT as we discuss and analyze the results of the game.

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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