Game 70: Jets vs Kings pre-game report

The Jets are in a critical race against time as the teams around them continue to accumulate points. After the games on Friday night they find themselves four points back of Vegas for the final wild card spot with Dallas ahead of them by three points and holding three games in hand.

This is the third and final game the Jets are expected to be without Kyle Connor and Nate Schmidt due to those two players being in covid protocol.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

Svechnikov-Dubois-Wheeler
Stastny-Scheifele-Ehlers
Sanford-Lowry-Appleton
Harkins-Toninato-Barron

Morrissey-DeMelo
Heinola-Pionk
Stanley-Dillon

Hellebuyck
Comrie

Betway Odds:

Coming off an absolute thrashing by the Leafs the Jets will be looking to gain some ground in the playoff hunt as they continue to sit on the outside looking in. They will be in tough against a Kings team that is also looking to maintain their playoff position. Be sure to check out the latest game day odds from Betway.

Player media availability:

Coach media availability:

Topics:

1) What has he learned about Morgan Barron.
2) What’s the conversation like with a guy coming into a new team.
3) What has he seen from the Kings?
4) How has the team handled the wins/losses of last month?
5) Notice a difference between playoff teams/non-playoff teams?
6) Key areas of strength.
7) Come down to will?
8) Anything he wants Scheifele to do differently on the shorthanded goal last game?
9) When and when not to make plays.
10) Puck management.

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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