Photo Credit: Colby Spence

The Jets are feeling good as they got Josh Morrissey back in the fold for Sunday’s contest against the Flyers and then after Connor Hellebuyck stood on his head in the opening frame took over the 2nd and 3rd periods to win 7-1 over Philadelphia.  Today they practice in downtown Winnipeg as they get ready to face the Blackhawks here tomorrow night in the third of four straight home games.

Practice notes:

As per Mitchell Clinton of Jets TV a few players missing from today’s practice including Connor Hellebuyck, Mathieu Perreault, Andrew Copp and Josh Morrissey. He also indicated that Joe Morrow remains in a non-contact jersey.  Jamie Thomas also of Jets TV provided the line rushes and D pairs listed below.

Line rushes and D pairs:

Ehlers-Scheifele-Wheeler
Connor-Little-Laine
Appleton-Lowry-Tanev
Lemieux-Roslovic-Petan

Niku-Trouba
Chiarot-Byfuglien
Kulikov-Myers
Morrow

Brossoit

Audio:

Patrik Laine

Kyle Connor

Nikolaj Ehlers

Health update:

Coach Maurice didn’t speak today but according to Paul Friesen of the Winnipeg Sun “Mathieu Perreault is questionable for tomorrow’s game vs Chicago. Copp and Morrow remain out. Morrissey and Hellebuyck, who missed practice today, are fine, we’re told.”

Up Next:

The Jets face the Hawks tomorrow at 7  pm here in Winnipeg.  Be sure to keep it locked to illegalcurve.com for the AM Papers which go live at 7 AM followed by the Jets pre-game report at 10:30 AM.

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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