Ted Wyman of the Winnipeg Sun indicated that Blake Wheeler was absent from practice today as the Jets got back to skating in advance of a Wednesday night contest against the Leafs at the MTS Centre. Ted added that “Maurice putting #NHLJets through prolonged hard skate with no pucks at practice this morning”.
Coach Maurice added following skate that Wheeler is “fine”.
Lines used today:
Ladd-Little-Armia
Perreault-Scheifele-Stafford
Thorburn-Burmistrov-Ehlers
Lowry-Copp-Peluso
Chiarot-Byfuglien
Enstrom-Myers
Stuart-Trouba
Pardy-Postma
Hutchinson & Hellebuyck
He's closing in on his first game since January 13th.
The 2024 2nd rounder is in Winnipeg where he'll spend the rest of the season…
At the GM meetings GMKC spoke 1-on-1 with Gino Reda.