Winnipeg Jets Practice Report

The Jets were off on Thursday following their season opening loss to the Ducks on Wednesday night. They flew to northern California for the second game of the season which is tomorrow night against the Sharks in San Jose.

Skate news:

Murat Ates of The Athletic Winnipeg is in San Jose as is Mike McIntyre of the Winnipeg Free Press. Courtesy of Murat are the forward lines and from Mike the D pairs from today’s skate.

Lines & D Pairs:

Connor-Scheifele-Wheeler
Copp-Dubois-Ehlers
Stastny-Lowry-Perfetti
Vesalainen-Nash-Harkins-Svechnikov (three rotating through)

Morrissey-Schmidt
Dillon-Pionk
Stanley-DeMelo
Beaulieu

Player availability:

Coach availability:

Topics:

1) Getting Mark Scheifele back for tomorrow’s game.
2) Changes to the lines with 55 back in (:32)
3) Has he seen an evolution of his top line? (:55)
4) With a deep D can the top line return to focus on offence? (2:23)
5) The team going as far as they can b/c of top line (3:15)
6) What is he expecting from the Sharks? (3:43)
7) Is he seeing some added excitement from Brenden Dillion to be back in SJ? (4:41)
8) On Pierre-Luc Dubois shooting more (5:02)
9) The journey of Evgeny Svechnikov to get to Anaheim (5:35)

Up next:

The Jets will take on the Sharks tomorrow night in game 2 of the season. Puck drop is at 9 PM CT. Be sure to keep it locked to illegalcurve.com for the AM Papers which go live at 7 AM CT and join us after the game on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show.