Game 74: Winnipeg Jets vs Vancouver Canucks pre-game report

The Jets hit the ice for a practice on Saturday as they prepared for their final game of four straight in Winnipeg. Given they’ve won two straight no surprises that there were no changes to the lines or D pairs. Worth noting that Eric Comrie’s availability is uncertain as his wife is reportedly expecting a child anytime now as per Mike McIntyre of the Winnipeg Free Press.

Vancouver are fighting to keep their season alive now that St. Louis has cruised past them into the second wild card spot with nine straight wins. They find themselves on the outside looking in now six points back although they do have two games in hand.

Skate news:

None with it being an afternoon game.

Jets projected lines & D pairs:

Connor-Scheifele-Iafallo
Ehlers-Lowry-Appleton
Niederreiter-Namestnikov-Perfetti
Gustafsson-Barron-Tanev

Morrissey-DeMelo
Samberg-Schenn
Stanley-Miller

Hellebuyck
Comrie

Canucks projected lines & D pairs:

DeBrusk – Suter – Boeser
O’Connor – Blueger – Garland
Joshua – Raty – Sherwood
Karlsson – Aman – Lekkerimaki

Hughes – Hronek
Pettersson – Myers
Forbort – Pettersson

Demko
Lankinen

Up Next:

Puck drop is at 2 PM CDT. Be sure to head over to illegalcurve.com following the game for a recap of the action. You can join us on our YouTube channel for the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show around 4:40 PM CDT as we discuss and analyze the results of the game.