The Jets were off on Sunday after three straight days of practice and while they may have been hoping to know who their second round opponent will be they will not know that information until later tonight when the Habs and Leafs do battle in game 7 of their series in Toronto.  If the Leafs win then the Jets will play game 1 on Wednesday in Ontario and if the Habs win then Montreal will fly to Winnipeg for game 1 on Wednesday.

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Skate news:

As per Ken Wiebe of Sportsnet all are present and accounted for this morning and the lines and Dpairs remain the same.

Lines and D pairs:

Connor-Scheifele-Wheeler
Dubois-Stastny-Ehlers
Copp-Lowry-Appleton
Perreault-Thompson-Lewis
Vesalainen-Toninato

Morrissey-DeMelo
Forbort-Pionk
Stanley-Poolman
Heinola-Benn

Player availability:

Coach availability:

Topics included:

1) Does the Leafs/Habs game 7 change his preparation?
2) Is there anything from the 2009 series that he can draw from?
3) Is there anything different he is trying to offset the long wait between games?
4) What’s benefit of goalie having been to a conference final?
5) What stood out to him most of Hellebuyck’s play in the 1st round?
6) Did the anthem signing in Montreal for game 6 impact him?
7) Reflecting on the Thrashers purchase by True North 10 years ago today.

Up next:

By later this evening the Jets will know their next round opponent. Be sure to keep it locked to illegalcurve.com for the AM Papers which go live at 7 AM CT.

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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