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Manitoba Moose Playoff Practice Report

Photo Credit: Katie Macleod (Manitoba Moose)

A second straight day of practice for the Moose as they ready themselves for a pivotal game three tomorrow night where it is win or go home as they find themselves down 0-2 in their best of five series with the Admirals. While the shot volume has been significant for Manitoba the quality of those shots and having players in front to screen/bang home a rebound hasn’t quite been where it needs to be.

Photo Credit: Katie Macleod (Manitoba Moose)

Roster moves:

With Nashville getting eliminated on Monday their farm club in Milwaukee got three players back: Goalie Connor Ingram, Mathieu Olivier and Winnipegger Cody Glass. It will be interesting to see who they use in net considering how good Devin Cooley has been vs Moose.

Lines & D pairs (Please note these are from yesterday’s practice):

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

Samberg-Kovacevic
Heinola-Oligny
Phillips*-Gawanke

Phillips skated for Declan Chisholm who was taking a maintenance day on Monday as per Moose head coach Mark Morrison.

Player availability:

Up next:

The Moose will take on the Admirals tomorrow night in Winnipeg in game three of their five-game series. Puck drop is at 7 PM CDT. The game will be on TSN as well as AHLTV.

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.