Winnipeg Jets Practice Report

The Jets did some flip-flopping of their forwards yesterday in practice with Andrew Copp moving to the third line and Evgeny Svechnikov moving up a line with Pierre-Luc Dubois and Kyle Connor.

Recall news:

To nobody’s surprise the Jets recalled 2018 2nd rounder David Gustafsson now that he has been cleared (Moose were dealing with a covid situation which was contained to one player).

Skate news:

As per Ken Wiebe of Sportsnet the only change from yesterday is Gustafsson slides into the 4th line centre role with Harkins moving to the wing.

Lines and D pairs:

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

Morrissey-Schmidt
Dillon-Pionk
Stanley-DeMelo

Hellebuyck
Comrie

Players media availability:

Coach media availability:

Topics:

1) Why bring up David Gustafsson? (:24)
2) Gustafsson’s role at the NHL level (:47)
3) Will he use Gustafsson on the penalty kill? (1:07)
4) Using Scheifele at the end of a PK last game (1:31)
5) The highest level of energy at practice today (1:51)
6) What will he be looking for from the Copp/Lowry line (2:32)
7) Is he hoping the young guys (4th line) seize opportunity (3:39)
8) Benefit of Gustafsson/Vesalainen having chemistry from Moose days (4:20)
9) What they’ve seen from Gustafsson since he first got to Wpg (4:49)
10) Does he see a faster David Gustafsson now? (6:05)
11) Where does he see Mark Scheifele’s 200 foot game right now? (6:54)
12) More on Scheifele’s defence (specific to the Canucks game) (7:39)
13) What will it take for Scheifele and Ehlers to get going/find chemistry? (7:57)
14) Looking forward to seeing Ovechkin? (9:04)
15) On goal celebrations from Russian players (10:14)

Up next:

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