The Jets were hammered last night by Connor McDavid and the Oilers 6-1 and are looking for answers on this homestand from hell which has seen them drop the first four games and looking to salvage something with just one game remaining.

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Transaction Report:

The Jets reassigned Dominic Toninato and Leon Gawanke back to the Moose this morning.

Skate news:

As per Ken Wiebe of Sportsnet Adam Lowry remains in a non-contact uniform.  Ken also provides the lines and D pairs at today’s practice.

Lines & Dpairs at practice:

Copp-Scheifele-Appleton
Connor-Dubois-Wheeler
Vesalainen-Stastny-Perreault
Harkins-Thompson-Lewis

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

Hellebuyck
Brossoit

Player availability:

Coach availability:

Topics:

1. Leaning on belief in self when times get tough.
2. Was the team feeling too good about themselves heading into this homestand?
3. If the team has gotten away from their game for a stretch, how can they get back to it?
4. On the team hanging Connor Hellebuyck out to dry.
5. What is process like to build back from being down and is he seeing signs team is escaping it?
6. On guys not wearing a letter speaking post-game.
7. Rest vs Rhythm down the stretch for Connor Hellebuyck.

Up next:

The Jets conclude this five-game homestand tomorrow night against the Oilers. Be sure to keep it locked to illegalcurve.com for the AM Papers which go live at 7 AM CT and then join us on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show after the final buzzer sounds between Winnipeg and Edmonton.

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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