Winnipeg Jets Practice Report

The Jets were left licking their wounds after a 4-2 loss to a Sabres team that had been winless in their previous seven games. It wasn’t the loss so much as the lack of push back in the 3rd period.

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Skate news:

As per Ken Wiebe of Sportsnet some big movement for the Jets as Evgeny Svechnikov is wearing the white of a top six forward while Andrew Copp returns to the blue of the bottom six. Ken provides the line and D pairs listed below.

Still no recall from the Moose.

Lines and D pairs:

Stastny-Scheifele-Ehlers
Connor-Dubois-Svechnikov
Copp-Lowry-Toninato
Beaulieu-Harkins-Vesalainen

Morrissey-Schmidt
Dillon-Pionk
Stanley-DeMelo

Hellebuyck
Comrie

Players media availability:

Coach media availability:

Topics:

1) Reasons for the line configuration?
2) Finding consistency when the lines aren’t consistent (:55)
3) The type of practice they held today (1:27)
4) All the shots missing the net (2:30)
5) Defensive zone play (3:25)
6) Does he anticipate having a 12th forward for Friday’s game? (3:50)
7) Analytics are good but they are losing games, why? (4:12)
8) Is it a finishing issue? (4:32)
9) How do they generate more A chances when they aren’t playing with speed? (5:04)
10) Is it a struggle to get guys to get to the net? (5:31)
11) Biggest barrier to this team finding consistency (6:13)

Up next:

The Jets have another day of practice tomorrow as they continue to try and get things going again. Start your Thursday with the morning papers at 7 AM, stay with us throughout the day for the latest news. Reminder we want you to join us on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show following the final buzzer on Friday.