Winnipeg Jets Playoff Practice Report

The Jets are coming off a complete team victory over the Golden Knights last night in game 1. The only real lineup question mark was Nikolaj Ehlers who appeared ready to return last night but remained day-to-day as the team took a precautionary approach with his return.

Skate news:

As per Mike McIntyre of the Winnipeg Free Press just a few guys missing from today’s practice in Morgan Barron, Kevin Stenlund and Neal Pionk. The lines and D pairs come courtesy of Mike.

Lines and D pairs:

Connor-Dubois-Scheifele
Niederreiter-Namestnikov-Wheeler
Ehlers-Lowry-Appleton
Kuhlman-Gustafsson-Maenalanen
Perfetti (non contact)

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

Hellebuyck
Rittich
Salminen

Players interview:

Coach’s media availability:

Topics:

1) Status of Morgan Barron?
2) Update on Nikolaj Ehlers? (:06)
3) Was there any concern with swelling for Barron? (:27)
4) Taking first game as road team (1:15)
5) Adjustments being made by both teams for game 2 (1:50)
6) Playing such a strong team game (2:22:)
7) Pionk and Stenlund are maintenance? (2:56)
8) Adam Lowry playing most minutes last night (3:10)
9) His thoughts on Dylan Samberg’s playoff debut (4:14)
10) Third goal as an example of what he has been preaching (4:47)
11) What surprised him about the Golden Knights last night? (5:19)
12) Getting trackbacks from the forwards (5:48)

Health updates:

Head coach Rick Bowness said they gave Morgan Barron the day off saying it was “well deserved. He labelled Nikolaj Ehlers as “day-to-day”. He added that Kevin Stenlund and Neal Pionk were taking maintenance days.

Up next:

Tomorrow the series continues as Winnipeg and Vegas will play game 2 of their first round series. Kick start your morning with all the latest news via illegalcurve.com, stick with us throughout the day for now and then join us after the game on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show.