The Jets hit the ice for a quick skate before heading on the road for five games starting tomorrow night in Montreal.

Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)

Transaction news:

The Jets have reassigned Kristian Vesalainen from the Moose to the taxi squad.

Morning skate news:

According to Ken Wiebe of Sportsnet he only player missing today was Jets captain Blake Wheeler. Accordingly the lines and Dpairs listed below by Ken are without number 26.

Line rushes:

Connor-Scheifele-Ehlers
Stastny-Dubois-Copp
Perreault-Lowry-Appleton
Harkins-Thompson-Lewis

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

Hellebuyck
Brossoit

Player media availability:

Coach media availability:

Topics:

1. Status of Blake Wheeler?
2. His plans for his lineup.
3. The hit on Wheeler being more solid than it appeared.
4. Would Wheeler be able to join them on the trip later?
5. On the Tkachuk hit.
6. Opportunity for Jansen Harkins.

Health news:

Jets head coach Paul Maurice announced that captain Blake Wheeler is out indefinitely and will not be making the road trip out east.

Up next:

The Jets will kick off five games on the road starting tomorrow night in Montreal with a 6 pm puck drop. Be sure to keep it locked to illegalcurve.com for the AM Papers which go live at 7 AM CT.

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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