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Manitoba Moose Playoff Practice Report

Photo Credit: Daniel Fink (Manitoba Moose)

The Moose got back to Winnipeg after two dominant games by them in Milwaukee but despite controlling the play saw them return to Manitoba down 0-2 in their best of five series with the Admirals.

Photo Credit: Daniel Fink (Manitoba Moose)

Practice Notes:

As per Jacob Stoller a couple of players missing this morning including Kristian Vesalainen and Declan Chisholm. He also provided the lines and D pairs below.

Lines:

Eyssimont-Gustafsson-Barron
Malott-Suess-Poganski
Polei-Maier-Jones
Johnson-Hutchison-Lynch

Samberg-Kovacevic
Heinola-Oligny
Phillips-Gawanke

Player availability:

Coach availability:

Health news:

As per Mark Morrison some updates including Declan Chisholm isn’t skating due to maintenance. He also said that Kristian Vesalainen has a leg injury and when asked if he would play in game 3 on Wednesday indicated “I don’t think he’s an option for Wednesday.” He added that Kristian Reichel is out with a “six week injury”. He was knocked out of the game back on April 26th courtesy of this hit.

Recall notice:

Following practice the team announced that they had recalled Hayden Shaw from the ECHL.

Up next:

The Moose have another day of practice tomorrow scheduled for Tuesday.

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.