The Jets followed a day off on Friday with a scheduled practice today as they look to put a bad game 3 loss behind them and turn their focus, as they’ve done all season long, towards game 4 tomorrow afternoon in St. Louis.

The biggest question mark for them was whether Gabriel Vilardi would be in a normal jersey or remain in the yellow, non-contact uniform. The other question was the health of Dylan DeMelo and if his illness had been contained.

Skate news:

Both these questions were answered as we learned via Murat Ates of The Athletic Winnipeg that Gabriel Vilardi was skating in a regular jersey.

He also confirmed that everyone else, including Dylan DeMelo was skating as per the lines and D pairs he posted to Twitter.

Lines & D pairs:

Connor-Scheifele-Iafallo
Niederreiter-Namestnikov-Perfetti
Barron-Lowry-Appleton
Tanev-Gustafsson-JAD, with Vilardi working in

Morrissey-DeMelo
Samberg-Pionk
Stanley-Schenn
Miller, Heinola, Fleury

Coach’s comments:

Asked what’s the next marker for Gabriel Vilardi and head coach Scott Arniel indicated

“Game-time decision now. Got the jersey off. Game-time now. Lots of good things today.”

Said he hasn’t talked to the medical team. “there’s a possibility for him tomorrow.”

Up next:

The Jets will take on the Blues in a critical game 4 on Sunday afternoon. Start your day with all the latest Jets and Moose news in the AM Papers on illegalcurve.com which are available starting at 7 AM CDT, check back for the pre-game report and then join us after the final buzzer on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show.

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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