Winnipeg Jets Playoff Practice Report

Second straight day of practice in Winnipeg for the Jets as they prepare for game 1 of their first round series with Vegas. There was a bit of conflicting news on Saturday as Nikolaj Ehlers declared himself good to go but his head coach Rick Bowness wasn’t quite so eager to use that term listing him as day-to-day (as was Kevin Stenlund).

Skate news:

As per Mitchell Clinton of JetsTV no Nikolaj Ehlers or Kevin Stenlund this morning at skate. Mitch also provides the lines and D pairs below without these two.

Update from coach on Ehlers:

He indicated in his media availability that Ehlers skated on his own this morning and he remains day-to-day.

Lines and D pairs:

Connor-Dubois-Scheifele
Niederreiter-Namestnikov-Wheeler
Barron-Lowry-Appleton
AJF/Kuhlman-Gustafsson-Maenalanen

Morrissey-DeMelo
Dillon-Pionk
Samberg-Schmidt
Stanley-Capobianco

Players interview:

Coach’s media availability:

Topics:

1) Status of Nikolaj Ehlers?
2) Did Kevin Stenlund skate today? (:42)
3) Team vibe right now (:57)
4) Advantages to playoff experience (1:29)
5) How different is “playoff mode”? (1:58)
6) How fine a line between winning/losing (2:37)
7) How does he keep it even keel? (3:37)

Up next:

Tomorrow will be another day of practice for the Jets except it will be taking place in Vegas. Kick start your morning with all the latest news via illegalcurve.com and then check back with us for the Practice Report.