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Winnipeg Jets Practice Report

Photo Credit: John Delaney (Winnipeg Jets)

After a tough loss last night to the Canucks the Jets hit the ice for a practice at Bell MTS Place as the seven-game homestand will continue this week with three straight games at home against the Flames.

Photo Credit: John Delaney (Winnipeg Jets)

Skate news:

Big question after last game was whether there might be some changes coming to the lines and we had that answered in an affirmative by Mitchell Clinton of JetsTV who tweeted that there was movement in the top six which is reflected below in the lines.

Lines & D pairs:

Copp-Scheifele-Ehlers
Connor-Stastny-Wheeler
Perreault-Lowry-Appleton
Harkins-Gustafsson-Lewis

Morrissey-DeMelo
Forbort-Pionk
Stanley-Beaulieu
Heinola-Niku

Player availability:

Coach availability:

Topics:

1. Adam Lowry’s leadership.
2.Switching up his top two lines.
3. What does he like about the Stastny/Wheeler combo?
4. Is he considered making any adjustments to the D pairings?
5. Player only meetings.
6. Why wasn’t Tucker Poolman on the ice today?
7. Might Kristian Vesalainen be returning to the lineup?
8. Duo of Mark Scheifele and Andrew Copp.
9. On the decision to break up the Stastny line.

Up next:

The Jets will begin February with the first of four straight games (three in Winnipeg and one in Calgary) against the Flames. Be sure to keep it locked to illegalcurve.com for the AM Papers

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.